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New on Project Gutenberg, 26 Jul 2011
New and notable just updated on Project Gutenberg, this week featuring: Japan and the California Problem (1921) by Toyokichi Iyenaga and Kenoske Sato La vampire (1865) by Paul Féval (French) Astronomy with an Opera-glass (1890) by Garrett Putman Serviss The … Continue reading
Lawnless lawns
I’ve been obsessing on getting rid of our front yard grass and replacing it with native California plants and xeriscaping. Now I just have to talk Denyse into it. ;D The Sunset Magazine blog Fresh Dirt has been mentioning a … Continue reading
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Tagged California, gardening, native plants, plants, Sunset Magazine, sustainability, water, xeriscaping
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On Gutenberg, 21 Jun 2011
New and updated ebooks of note on Project Gutenberg. This time around: Jacob’s Room (1922) by Virginia Woolf The Meaning of Relativity (1922) by Albert Einstein Rambles of a Naturalist (1859) by John D. Godman My Bondage and My Freedom … Continue reading
Tagged airships, Albert Einstein, anthropology, California, ebooks, flight, Frank V Webster, Frederick Douglass, General Relativity, history, John D Godman, learning, Mexico, natural history, outdoors, physics, Project Gutenberg, reading, science, Sherburne Friend Cook, slavery, Spain, Virginia Woolf
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The California Steam Bus Project – 1972
Part 1 Part 2 Metrolibrarian on YouTube. Apparently cars have been running bicyclists off the road since the beginning. ;)
Tagged California, cycling, flight, Los Angeles, Oakland, railroads, San Francisco, science, society, steam, transit
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Paleo culture and tools on California’s Channel Islands
BBC: “Island tool finds show early settlers’ diversity” Caches of tools and animal remains from around 12,000 years ago, found on islands off the California coast, have given remarkable insight into the lives of the first Americans. The finds show … Continue reading
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, birds, California, Channel Islands, fish, history, learning, ocean, science
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John Muir tweeting
Dec 1-8, John Muir will be tweeting via the @calisphere feed. The most recent as of this writing:
Muir: A flower grows in the mountains that is like candy-stalk, and leaves and all look just like red, crispy candy. http://bit.ly/7XQhgi
The tweet text comes from various Muir letters.
In case you aren’t familiar with it, Calisphere is an amazing virtual collection of primary sources from the University of California.
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Tagged California, Calisphere, John Muir, outdoors, Twitter
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Zeppelin: The Eureka over Long Beach
The Zeppelin Eureka from Airship Ventures offers the only commercial passenger airship operation in the United States. It offers flight-seeing tours above San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Monterey, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles.
Alex at Ravens in Hollywood has been tracking the Zeppelin. I’m hoping for some action shots.
Here’s another video from NBC 4:
View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.
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Tagged airships, California, Eureka, flight, friends, Los Angeles, San Francisco, travel, Zeppelin
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