August 2010

How To Prepare For A Hurricane

31 August 2010

It looks like hurricane season is finally upon us. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a really big hurricane.
So a reminder will be a good thing. A big hurricane can make a very big mess of things. The East Coast doesn’t have any cities built underwater like New Orleans so any destruction won’t [...]

Read the full article →

Hot Air » EPA on lead-ammunition ban: Never mind

30 August 2010

Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.
via Hot Air » EPA on lead-ammunition ban: Never mind.
Looks like we made them back [...]

Read the full article →

Restoring Honor Event

30 August 2010

I watched Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event and it was amazing. Was it what I expected? No. He did say it wasn’t going to be political and he was true to his word. It was not political.
And that was a good thing. I’ve had quite enough of politics. The media seems to have a hard [...]

Read the full article →

How To Setup an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station with a Time Machine Disk

27 August 2010

There are 2 kinds of computer users: those who have lost data because of a hard drive crash and those who will. I haven’t used a film camera in a decade. Keeping my precious photos of my child and other important documents is getting to be a big deal.
Apple has made it very easy to keep [...]

Read the full article →

EPA Considering Ban on Traditional Ammunition — Take Action Now | NSSF Blog

26 August 2010

Nudge, nudge.
With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act [...]

Read the full article →

iTunes U breaks 300 million downloads

26 August 2010

There is a lot of great material in there even a course on permaculture.
Students can use iTunes U to find lectures and other materials related to their studies, of course, but really anyone with an interest in continued education can browse the store’s contents for audio or video that meets their areas of interest. For [...]

Read the full article →

How to Keep Your Cool: 12 Tips for Staying Calm Under Pressure – by Dumb Little Man

26 August 2010

There are going to be times when things go crazy, these are some good ideas for not going crazy yourself.
When I was just a little younger, I had great big goals and objectives and aspirations for every day of my life. These days, my biggest ambition is to get through each day with grace and [...]

Read the full article →

What an Economic Worst-Case Scenario Looks Like

26 August 2010

Here is one take on the Economic Meltdown worst-case scenario.
No, there will be no double dip. It will be a lot worse. The world economy will soon go into an accelerated and precipitous decline which will make the 2007 to early 2009 downturn seem like a walk in the park. The world financial system has [...]

Read the full article →

EPA Considering Ban on Traditional Ammunition — Take Action Now | NSSF Blog

25 August 2010

EPA Considering Ban on Traditional Ammunition — Take Action Now | NSSF Blog.
This could be a problem.

Read the full article →

U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients – NYTimes.com

25 August 2010

Hospitalized patients often have an array of clear plastic tubing sticking out of their bodies to deliver or extract medicine, nutrition, fluids, gases or blood to veins, arteries, stomachs, skin, lungs or bladders.
via U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients – NYTimes.com.
The medical community has problems, very serious problems, that have already been solved in [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries