My friend Alex from Back In The Day™wrote an interesting post about his hope for the future of Humanity based on the democratizing effects of technology and the Internet. Except that he put it a lot more poetically. Here’s a snippet:
earthbound01: the internet is wide
broadly, there’s some kind of metaphorical Library of Alexandria [...]

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Post-Katrina we are definitely having journal access issues at Tulane. The sheer cost and lack of thought toward online access from Elsevier (as mentioned in the linked article) and its peers are a continual aggravation when looking for papers to read.
Over on Kalimna there’s an interesting look at what I hope is a new wave [...]

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It’s 3/14, also known as Pi day! Take time today to appreciate the magical number that goes on forever and comes from the ratio of a circle’s area to its radius, (and other similar relationships).

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That’s what I was calling the bus that runs on the streetcar route here in Uptown, since the streetcar line is still not fixed post-Katrina. I’ve been taking this bus to work, which could take anywhere from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on the whims of the RTA.
This was just not working. I live [...]

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The Washington crowd cannot even get this right.
“in the last two years [2004-2005], we have spent more to rebuild Iraq’s wetlands than Louisiana’s” (for those who aren’t sure, a large amount of oil is regularly pulled out of the gulf of Louisiana’s shoreline, shipped through New Orleans’ port system, and processed locally along Mississippi between [...]

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