Illuminated Manuscripts Online Not a huge collection and I’m sure there are larger ones—but it is the first time I’ve come across such a thing. Very cool!
For Waya
Not a BuddhaBoard, but I thought you might like them anyway. PDA Zen Garden Karesansui, or the “dry-landscape” style Japanese gardens have been in existence for centuries, but it wasn’t until the late sixth century with the advent of Zen…
Porter vs. Preacher
Crazy Train or Emotional Subway Attack Me: “If you all don’t lower your voices and cease calling me Satan, I will have to sing show tunes.”
Hmmmm…
Why Bush Left Texas Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet. A months-long investigation, which includes examination…
For Deza
Don’t Mess With Librarians I wanna be a librarian, among many other things, when I grow up.
Scrap the GNP?
I’d like feedback from y’all on this. hopeevey, your background in economics is especially valuable here. True Cost Economics Among other things, it suggests replacing the GNP with a Genuine Progress Indicator.
Cost of Adult ADHD
The Adult Form of ADHD Proves Costly for Sufferers September 13, 2004 The adult form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could be one of the nation’s most expensive health concerns, costing its “adult sufferers billions of dollars each year in…
Teens: Buycott!
Buy Different from the Center for a New American Dream (itself worthy of time) and the World Wildlife Fund is a cool site that helps teens to learn about “buycotting”—putting their money where their beliefs are. I think that’s the…
Best. Dog. Story. Ever.
Well, okay, there’s a pretty nekkid lady in it too. I can’t help but see ga_sunshine when I try to imagine what this looked like.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto The British Library owns 93 copies of Shakespeare’s 21 plays as printed in quarto before the theaters were closed in 1642. Wanna see ’em?