Monthly Archive
for: ‘August, 2009’

“His Excellency, George Washington”

I recently read, “His Excellency, George Washington” by Joseph J. Ellis (author of the bestseller “Founding Brothers”). Yet again, I’m amazed at how Ellis makes American history come alive through his writing style, which transitions seamlessly from factual story-telling to almost conversational language. Here, he cuts through the legends and folklore that surround our Nation’s …

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Meta-review of the health care debate

Let me begin this blog by assuring you that I will not be putting across my opinions on health care reform. Rather, I’d like to take a look at how this whole debate is unfolding in isolation of the actual issue being discussed. So, I write this not to elevate democrats over republicans or liberals …

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Roz Savage, Ocean Rower

For the past few months, I’ve been working with ocean rower and environmentalist Roz Savage for a project at Archinoetics (where I work) called the RozTracker (an interactive mapping tool that plots her crossing of the Pacific Ocean). Recently, Archinoetics took over managing Roz’s website as well, and so I was charged with fixing a …

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