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Does Size Matter?
By David Stilwill on Mar 13, 2008 in Featured, Libraries | 0 Comments
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
The Prairie Free Library - Prairie, ID
Three Good Books by Louis L’Amour That Aren’t Westerns
By David Stilwill on Mar 11, 2008 in Author Feature, Featured, First Person Narrative, Non-Fiction, Survival | 0 Comments
Source: Wikipedia
Raconteur: One who tell stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.
Author of over 100 novels, storyteller Louis L’Amour is certainly best known for his westerns and that certainly is the genre with which his name will always be remembered. He did venture at times though from his standard, leaving behind his most recognizable settings. Here are three favorites that are not westerns, though some of L’Amour’s archetypes are still easily recognizable. Read the rest
Web Adventures - Curious Expeditions.Org
By David Stilwill on Feb 14, 2008 in Global Travel, Libraries, Web Sites | 0 Comments
Stumbling about the long branching hallways of the internet I came across a site filled with wondrous images, tales of foreign lands, libraries stacked to the ceilings with books, cabinets filled with clocks, bones, mysterious paraphenalia and much more.
CuriousExpeditions.org is my kind of place. Their tagline states ‘Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past‘. Content, color scheme and presentation are all very appealing. Though I have only just discovered it I have read a couple intriguing posts and look forward to exploring deeper. Perhaps you, faithful reader will enjoy it as well.
Their post that lead me to the site initially was -
Librophiliac Love Letter: A compendium of beautiful libraries
Lots of incredible images of libraries around the world.
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Oceans, Solitude, Madness & A Race Around The World
By David Stilwill on Feb 12, 2008 in Featured, Global Travel, Ocean Adventure | 2 Comments
Break, Break, Break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
October 31, 1968
On the final day of a five month starting window, two sailboats, the last of nine, left the shores of England in competition of a single-handed, non-stop race to circle the globe.
Web Adventures - Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
By David Stilwill on Jan 25, 2008 in Featured, Web Sites | 2 Comments
“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
- Mitchell Kapor
In the course of a session or day at my computer I will visit a lot of web addresses, some much more regularly than others. Here is a sampling of favorites -
