The news that my longtime friend, neighbour, and mentor Catherine Hennessey died this week at age 92, leaves me at a loss for ...

A set of five notebooks: Resentment, Irritation, Exasperation, Frustration, Fury. The look and feel of them sprang into my mind in one fell swoop. Setting type, printing, cutting, scoring, punching ...

There are myriad dedicated apps for doing this that have more bells and whistles—reminders to drink, calculations of required daily intake, etc.—but every single one I’ve encountered is a ...

If there’s a lesson about getting on in prison it’s that everywhere there are human communities that don’t rest on authority and coercion and that people form their own neworks of mutual support.

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

Bookbinder JS is a heartbreaking work of genius. It’s a standalone JavaScript-based application for imposition. If you have a PDF file that you want to bind into a book, this is the tool you want.

My friend (and prototypical blogger) Catherine gave me her Olympia Monica electric typewriter many years ago. After a flurry of typing initially, it sat fallow for a time. When I returned to use it a ...

We watched the documentary Between the Mountain and the Sky last night, and were quite moved by it: From the Duplass Brothers, Between the Mountain and the Sky follows CNN Hero Maggie Doyne and Top ...

Via University of Winds, a link to Open Infrastructure Map, useful here on Prince Edward Island for seeing a map of Maritime Electric and Summerside’s electricity infrastructure.

Dr. Glendenning died this week. On the spectrum of thoughts about how we educate our children (and ourselves), there was no one I was more aligned with. And there was no person who had more lasting ...

A year ago I wrote this about the book The Salt Path: Another book I read this month, found, in this case, not by Parnassus, by by Lisa, who noticed it’s been filmed for release later this year, is ...

From this week’s University of Winds: On Friday, an especially timely video from Technology Connections was published on YouTube: You are being misled about ...