Wood is a storage system for carbon, so by harvesting forest and using the wood for building, humans can reabsorb the carbon we have released into the atmosphere.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Laboratory Equipment - Wood Key to Fighting Carbon Emissions
Laboratory Equipment - Wood Key to Fighting Carbon Emissions
Monday, May 23, 2011
Post Redux: The Only Book Search Tool You’ll Ever Need | The Book Lady's Blog
Post Redux: The Only Book Search Tool You’ll Ever Need | The Book Lady's Blog
Edelweiss provides an online search tool of multiple publisher catalogs and allows for tagging and annotations. Very powerful.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Key workers: writers at their typewriters - in pictures | Books | guardian.co.uk
Key workers: writers at their typewriters - in pictures | Books | guardian.co.uk
Mark Twain was the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript. Here's a great slideshow from The Guardian showing great writers at their machines.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Sales Tax Fairness Victory in Connecticut | Bookselling This Week
Sales Tax Fairness Victory in Connecticut | Bookselling This Week
This trend of states demanding sales tax from online vendors shows clearly that the Internet and business done over it is no longer in need of special protections -- quite a turnaround from the early 1990s when the Postal Service wanted everyone to pay them a stamp tax for every message sent, and there was a real concern that the Internet would not take off as a viable business platform.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Oregon Launches Open Data Web Site -- InformationWeek
Oregon Launches Open Data Web Site -- InformationWeek
According to this article in InformationWeek, the Oregon site is better than the federal one because it allows viewers to leave comments directly on the dataset pages. I haven't had time to play with it, but I look forward to browsing the data.
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