A while back I shared a few hobbit-style homes people had built, but my favorite so far has to be the Low-Impact Woodland Home that Simon Dale and his family built in Wales: Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is [...]
Posted by Chris in Architecture, Art, Environment, Fun, World on August 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am stealing this idea from Fark. The AFA is incensed that Hallmark is making same-sex marriage cards and is boycotting the company. In addition, they have a very nice website where you can write to those durned lib’rals at Hallmark and give them what fer! As was suggested on Fark, it’s also a convenient [...]
Posted by Deana in Community & Activism, Email, Fun, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, To Help, Writing, You have got to be kidding on August 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
[from my GeekDad post] I have a confession to make. Compared to most GeekDads, I’m kind of a Luddite. I don’t have a video game console, or a TV to plug it into. I play games with cards and boards, not on the computer. My pets are biological, not robotic. Heck, I don’t even have [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, Geekdad, Technology on August 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John pointed out an article in the New York Times magazine that looks in-depth at Obama’s economic plan and why it’s so difficult to classify as liberal or conservative. The whole article is a great read, but this one passage caught my attention: The second criticism is that Obama’s tax increases would send an already-weak [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Politics on August 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yep, that’s me looking all farmer-like last winter sitting on Barefoot’s electric ATV prototype named “Alice.” My crew and I have had the luck of being able to test this Barefoot Motors prototype; which basically means driving it all over our vineyards and trying to break it. And we did — except all it needed [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Technology on August 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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