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It happened in 1948. Al Gore, Vice President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was born.

Are we destined to destroy this place that we call home, planet Earth? I can’t believe that that’s our destiny. It is not our destiny. But we have to awaken to the moral duty that we have to do the right thing, and get out of this silly political game playing about it. This is about survival.
–Al Gore, from his recent 60 Minutes interview

Well, there you go. I’m done upgrading all the blogs in our little domains to WordPress 2.5. Since I have a
lifetime shell account here at cornerhost I suppose I should set up svn so I could just automate things. Yeah, I’ll get right on that…

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  (tags: css design style webdev webdesign resource)
• Top 15 Science Fiction Book Series - The List Universe
  I had never heard of some of these, but agree wholeheartedly with the other dozen…
  (tags: scifi books geek SF)
• ATLAS - Chart and Map Library for Regional
  GIS data for southern Africa
  (tags: data gis africa spatial maps)

Today is Brent Simmons‘ 40th birthday. A very Happy Birthday to you!

Brent writes NetNewsWire, a free RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. Other things have been associated with Brent like Ranchero Software, TigerLaunch, a couple of Userland’s products (Frontier and Manila come to mind), his wonderful partner and spouse Sheila and Papa, their cat.

• The best books, articles, and Web sites about the recession. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
  Do books about the recession lessen the recession in the book industry?
  (tags: economics finance money 2008+recession)

I have no words for this grim event.

A.P.’s Death Toll for Iraq War Reaches 4,000
The U.S. military says a roadside bomb has killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, bringing The Associated Press death toll to at least 4,000.The grim milestone came on a day when at least 61 people were killed across the country.

No tally of the tens of thousands of ‘insurgents,’ or Iraqi civilians and other “non-combatants” is available…

• You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
  Small autonomous groups with high individual freedom. You’ve heard it before, but it’s still right. “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.” [via John Gruber at Daring Fireball]
  (tags: business culture jobs career economics management productivity psychology sociology)
• 750 pixel Pure CSS Layouts - Iron Myers
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate it on this day.

Today being the “first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.”

As they say in the canon, a ‘movable feast.’

• FRONTLINE: coming soon: Bush’s War| PBS
  2-parts airing March 24 and 25
  (tags: politics war bush pbs 9/11 frontline iraq TV)

Spring. Sprang. Sprung. And the Celtic Mid-Spring, the Astronomical beginning of Spring and for you Neos our there, Ostara too.

Susan is there with the news before me:

Happy Vernal Equinox which began last night, actually, when it was March 20 at 5:38 Universal Time.

[update 3/24] Looks like I forgot نوروز Norooz, the Persian New Year, which is tied to the Vernal Equinox as well.