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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. — George Carlin

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Local Authors at the King’s English

At the “Local Author Showcase”, held at the King’s English Bookstore on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010, Lisa and I had the opportunity to meet six local authors and hear them share a little bit about their book(s). Here are the authors that were there and the books they were discussing:

Susanna Barlow, “What Peace There [...]

What Peace There May Be Book Trailer

SusannaBarlow.com

Project Gutenberg

I recently came across this site where books in the public domain can be downloaded:

Project Gutenberg

Richard Feynman and Microsoft’s Tuva Project

Bill Gates and Microsoft have put the Tuva Project together and its something that I really like. In the Tuva Project is a collection of videos on science, taken from “The Messenger” lectures by Dr. Richard Feynman. Here’s an introduction from Microsoft’s website:

The Messenger lectures include severn videos of Dr. Richard Feynman speaking on [...]

What Peace There May Be

I’ve had the opportunity to get to know Susanna Barlow, author of “What Peace There May Be”, and to read her book. And what a wonderful book! Susanna expressed her story with verbal water colors; she painted with a poetic style that allowed me to imagine what she experienced without having to know all of [...]