Jack London and Hawaii: The Adventures of Charmian and Jack London in Hawaii
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Speaking after receiving the honour at a Buckingham Palace investiture she said: 'There are so many people who do so much but to be picked out amongst them is a great honour.
Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Got "Twilight: New Moon" tickets? Jamba Juice is giving away tickets to tonight's 10:10 p.m. showing at the Universal CityWalk Cinemas. The giveaway takes place from 8-10 p.m. -- or until all tickets are gone -- at the Jamba Juice...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What passes for policy with Palin are the standard conservative talking points -- lower taxes, lower deficits, less government and a strong defense.
dead time pacifies (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
No Worries already makes vegan Filipino food. Come April 2010 , Jay-Ar and No Worries will be serving food daily at Jack London Square Market in Oakland! Finally!!
Away With Words (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
If you're familiar with Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), it's most likely because you've read his most famous short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," or his satiric and widely quoted Devil's Dictionary.* But like many journalists and fiction writers, Bierce also considered himself a usage maven. He collected several hundred...
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
At Obama's Office of Management and Budget, they like to think of themselves as the truest meritocracy ever to work for the people of the United States. And, given the stakes, they better be.
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Say you're a world leader and you want your country's economy to prosper. According to this Clark Medal winner from MIT, there's a simple solution: start with free elections.
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Academy of Science, San FranciscoThis is the cafe, it's a really beautiful modern building.
Matthias Chronicles (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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The Suburban Bushwacker. (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Mike's back with the full scoop on his moose hunt. EnjoySBWMoose 2009Prelude and planning:Inspired by Jack London and every tale of mountain men read in the past 30 years, I went to Alaska to hunt moose ten years ago. I saw cows and young moose every day, but my tag only allowed me to take a mature bull. I came home grateful for the chance to have seen the magnificent wilderness of interior
Click World News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Rick sez, "SFFaudio has just announced their 4th Annual Make an Audiobook, Get an Audiobook Challenge. They have twenty Science Fiction and Fantasy titles of public domain and Creative Commons novels that they'd like to see freely available as audiobooks on the internet. They're looking for participants to commit to recording and editing the sound files and then making them available online. At...
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Muir Woods National MonumentThe home of big trees.Really big trees.
Feed on Cooking With The Single Guy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Getting Festive by the Waterfront 55 Webster St. (at Embarcadero), Oakland Jack London Square PH: 510.444.1233 Lunch and dinner daily Reservations, major credit cards accepted www.bocanova.com There are big plans for Oakland’s waterfront, known as Jack London Square (named for the writer, in case you messed that in class). And it’s about time because the area has a great view of the water...
Acephalous (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
That time has passed:The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering meadow of their own lavish federal health plan.Jack London would have looked at that sentence and deemed it overwrought. Then he would've reconsidered, thrown in a few King James-quoting cavemen and declared it a masterpiece. But Jack London...
poeta y diwata: barbara jane reyes blogs here (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
… where ever “there” may be (and here, I don’t mean Oakland, which because of Gertrude Stein, is known as “there.”). For the purposes of this here blog post, “there” means not the West Coast. When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...]
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