Category: General

September 24, 2009

Introducing the Book: Help Desk

Computers and the web/General/Humor Comments: 0

June 24, 2009

Uprisings: The Whole Grain Bakers’ Book

Update: December 2010: I have created a web site, uprisingsbakersbook.org, where I’m adding recipes and other pages from the book. I’m working on permissions from the publisher and bakeries, so I’m starting with bakeries that are closed. Look for weekly updates. In 1983, the Cooperative Whole Grain Educational Association published Uprisings; The Whole Grain Bakers’ Book. The Foreword of the...

Berkeley politics/Dining and eating/Environment/General Comments: 21

May 17, 2009

Free shoppping?

It’s that time again. Time to wander the aisles of the college town “free stores.” These stores don’t pay rent, and the aisles move daily (if not hourly). The merchandise are the items the students don’t feel like taking with them. Walk around student neighborhoods as finals and graduation come to an end, and you’ll find all sorts of treasures....

Environment/General Comments: 0

May 16, 2009

Interesting “ESP” site

The test A friend sent me this. I was surprised at first, but then it didn’t take me too long to figure it out. Here’s the test: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/esp.html Try it out (it will open in a new window), then return here if you can’t figure it out. Scroll down for the solution. . . . . . . . ....

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May 1, 2009

Studio open in my limited equity coop in Berkeley

There’s an opening in the limited equity coop apartment building I live it. Her’s the description: Studio Apartment Available June 1st in Limited Equity Housing Co-op Building is 120’s Spanish style, located close to UCB, Berkeley BART, shopping, and the “Gourmet Ghetto.” Together, we govern, manage, and maintain this 22-unit building. Monthly assessments cover everything except your electricity. Co-op reviews...

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April 13, 2009

California Action Alert on Employment & Disability

Dear Advocates, AB 1269 is important for Californians with disabilities who want to or do work. If you’re unfamiliar with Medi-Cal’s California Working Disabled Program, please see the following text link that describes the current program. http://www.chiip.org/longdesc/medi-cal_brochure_english.html AB 1269 adds desperately needed improvements to California’s Medicaid Buy-In Program that were vetoed by the governor two legislative cycles ago because of...

Accessibility/General/Travels Comments: 0

April 12, 2009

My dad’s finally online

No, this doesn’t mean you’ll be able to email him. I just talked him into letting me post some of his poetry to the web. You can read his poetry at EarthCommUNityILoveYou.org. I’ll be adding quite a bit over this next week, so keep coming back to read more.

Berkeley politics/Book recommendations/General/Peace/Trampleasures Comments: 0

March 20, 2009

ShopInBerkeley is closing

I’ve been running the web directory ShopInBerkeley.com for about eight years. My goal has always been to provide high quality, free and low cost web pages to Berkeley businesses. For the past year or two I’ve been evaluating the need for ShopInBerkeley.com, and have come to the conclusion that the value of the web site is less than the work...

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January 12, 2009

Wind Powered Art Vehicle/Kinetic Sculpture

Here’s a video of a great kinetic sculpture that walks along a beach powered by the wind.

General/Science Education Comment: 1

January 1, 2009

January 1st is Public Domain Day

January 1st is Public Domain Day, the day many works take their place in the ultimate destination for all works which were previously under the temporary copyright monopoly. Wallace McLean has continued his Public Domain Day tradition by publishing an extensive list of authors whose works are now in the public domain.

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