The Holy Grail of holy grails

In web design, it’s called the holy grail: a three-column layout with a header on top and a footer on the bottom. (If you use your imagination, it looks sort of like a chalice, right? See the cat? See the cradle?) (Warning: If at this point, you’re saying...

Peter! I can see your house from here!

Boris Mann alerts us to a new feature from the folks at Google Maps: satellite imagery. Go to Google Maps, click on the “Satellite” link in the upper right-hand corner. And just like the geeks in a spy movie, you too can see a satellite image of pretty...

Out of the wilderness

In the world of push-button publishing, reflective, thoughtful writing is in pretty short supply. So you owe it to yourself to drop by A Voice in the Wilderness sometime. Timmy the G’s post on Terri Schiavo is easily up to the high standard the blog has set for...

Paul Martin on the grassy knoll

Long ago, I adopted the principle that, in politics, you should never assume malice, conspiracy or purpose when incompetence can provide a better explanation. Let the record show it has served me well. Yet Pogge makes a compelling case that Paul Martin may have thrown...
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