Well, an old friend and blogger extraordinaire, Barbara Ganley — known for her use of the blog as a tool in the classroom — has a fascinating post up here about blogging from a foreign country. Reminds me clearly of the hours of respite I found in the various internet cafés in San Isidro de El General (Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica) when I was in the city for the weekend in the fall. Also reminds me of internet cafés in Bhutan, where we once encountered a couple of kids playing some WWF wrestling game, swearing in English, yet clearly having no idea what they were saying. The lama with whom we were traveling was checking his email and may have been seen shaking his head morosely 
So, reading her post on blogging gives me hope for my own improvement as a blogger — I at least have a clear goal in my head of what I want my posts to shape up to — whether I have the patience and persistence to apply the writing process to posts such as these that are purely done on MY time is to be seen.
An Interesting and Funny Table from the Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 - Volume 2 report (full report here)
Local file of the table (link being sketchy…) Public assessment of astrology, by respondent characteristic: 1979-2001 here
Or, if that link doesn’t work (this server is being weeird…) then just go here
Shows how many people thought astrology was scientific, or un-scientific, over time by education and sex.
Great article on investing.
Kind of crazy, my dad was just telling me about Warren Buffett and how he invested his money (he read his biography I think), and it sounded really neat. And then I found this article on morningstar!
Warren Buffett has long preached the mantra of investing within your “circle of competence,” or, more simply put, buying the stocks of companies that you can easily understand. One circle of competence for most individuals is the retail industry–you can get a look inside a potential investment every time you go shopping.
Morningstar.com - Shopping Around for Retail Stocks
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