Yet another Web 2.0 thing, yet another account registered with the “durf” name. Here I am on Twitter: follow Durf at http://twitter.com I find this account a helpful one to follow: the Train Kanto Twitter stream lets me know which lines have run over somebody and are stopped as a result, so I can decide [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Things Seen in Japan
Things Seen in Japan is a 1907 book by Clive Holland. It’s interesting, it’s old, it’s in the public domain, and it’s available for online reading at the link above. The photographs are staged (ridiculously at times; the plate on page 25 is a classic) but are worth looking at. This hundred-year-old book has the [...]
Scandinavian vacation
St. Johannes Kyrka Originally uploaded by Durf This was a vacation in 2002, actually. I had a few photos from it posted on a previous incarnation of this website, but I never got around to uploading any of them to Flickr after getting the account there. Now that’s changing. There’s a set of photos that [...]
Reading PDFs for pleasure
So it turns out I had a bunch of links saved in MarsEdit. Now I’m posting them. Here is one: pdf-mags.com. Your one-stop shop for free PDF reading material. This place is worth exploring. When I was at Berkeley we had to read free newspapers filled with “Ernie Pook’s Comeek” and other travesties in order [...]
The mental health zodiac?
One more quick one before I run out the door and head home. It’s a posting frenzy! One question to ask yourself, particularly when a baby has joined the family and given you a new birthday to remember, is this: Does the month of your birth affect your risk of mental illness? A quick look [...]
