Seems like an interesting biography

Quoted: This magnificent biography of Henry Morton Stanley is a superb adventure story as well as a feat of advocacy.

4 lectures left in the UW graduate lecture series.

what an odd story!

Quoted: The BBC's Phil Mercer visits a South Pacific island where people worship a mysterious US GI known as John Frum.

A new group in Seattle dedicated to sustainable living. There is a kickoff happy hour at twist on Feb 6.

Quoted: The mission of Friends of Seattle is to improve the quality of life in Seattle as it grows by advocating for progressive urban development policies and electing candidates for public office who support a livable and sustainable city.

I want to read this book. Anyone else interested in reading together?

The author is speaking at Seattle U tomorrow night.
Co-sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company and the Global African Studies program at Seattle University
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
7pm at Pigott Auditorium Seattle University

Quoted: the story of "Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history."

There's a 1 hour podcast to give you a tour of the pike place market here. Cool!

Bill Moyers on the risk of corporatizing the internet

I finished this book this weekend, and was surprised how much I really liked it. If they only taught this type of history at school, maybe I'd be a better contributor at pub trivia now. The author set about to recreate Captain Cook's travels through painstaking research and quite a bit of travel, some of it very bizarre. The author mixed humor and facts well, and I'd gladly read other books by him. I've recommended this book to several other people. Also good for both the sailing lust and travel lust that I'm attempting to supress.

yahoo launches an internet time capsule

Quoted: Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.