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My Fountain Penning Daily Lineup

I like writing with fountain pens — which I’ve written about before. I like the old-school quality that makes me feel connected …

Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper | Fast Company

OK. This is just stupid cool. Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper

Foreclosing on the Fourth Estate

I’ve never been much of a newspaper reader. I am a news reader, however. A better method of delivery than RSS, but just as easy and common, would fit those of us who simply can’t deal with the unwieldiness and expense (economic and environmental) of paper.

Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric

My recent entry: President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter has generated a fair amount of email (thank you, by the way). Among the comments were concerns about various aspects of doing the conversion, specifically about all that math to go from one system to another. Then there were comments about the realities of conversion. Let me try to address both of those items.