Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
Virginia Quarterly Review can claim credit for a real coup: getting Art Spiegelman to be the big guest at the 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book, here in Charlottesville. Melanie Mayhew writes in the Daily Progress: VABook! 2006 will feature Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-illustrator of graphic novels “Maus” and “Maus II” and the memoir …
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U.S. Commander in Iraq submits plan to Rumsfeld to withdraw troops beginning next year.
UC Santa Barbara has MP3d 5,380 wax cylinder recordings, dating from the turn of the last century. This stuff is great.
I’m a candy aficionado. One of my favorite things about taking a lengthy road trip is that I can stop in convenience stores and see what candy is available there that can’t be found at home. Things like Mint M&Ms. Goo Goo Clusters. Abba Zabba. Strawberry Charleston Chew. Skybar. The legendary Valomilk. The candy industry …
Martin Johnson, on state political blogs: This past August, the Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia hosted what was likely the first conference of political bloggers from a single state. By November, Virginia bloggers were so prominent that they were quoted in newspapers, appeared at political forums and, in this scathing letter from Kilgore …
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All Things Considered had a story this evening about Gene Beley, a reporter for the Ventura Star Free Press who accompanied Johnny Cash to Folsom Prison for his famous performance there. Beley recorded Cash’s first attempt at “Greystone Chapel” the night previous, in Cash’s hotel room. Beley also recorded the concert from his seat in …
I’m curious what the overlap is between people concerned about avian influenza (H5N1) and evolution-deniers. Anybody who does not believe in evolution should have no fear of H5N1 evolving into a form that could infect humans. If it does come to infect humans, and those who chose not to prepare don’t survive… Well, now that’s …
The Washington Post‘s Mike Shear has wrapped up his Race to Richmond blog and started a new one: The Richmond Report. It’s described as: What you will find, I hope, is a casual, fun and sometimes off-beat place for those little nuggets of political news from Virginia’s state capitol that you just can’t wait for …
Quoth Grover Norquist: Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about taxes. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s tax increase, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. In failing to make a …
I just went through the Charlottesville Blogs blogroll and pulled any blog that hasn’t been updated since June. There were about a half dozen. No point in listing blogs that have been abandoned. It’s surprising how few Charlottesville blogs have been abandoned. It’s unusual for such a high percentage of any given group of blogs …