My "local" grocery store is 2.2 miles away, or 4.5+ hours round trip by foot
According to Google Maps, I can hop in my car and get to a nice Homeland Supermarket in 8 minutes. Lucky me. Not all my neighbors are that fortunate, and …
Studs Terkel interview with Mary Owsley and Peggy Terry about Oklahoma City during the depression
Just by chance today I caught This American Life program on NPR when they were noting the recent passing of Studs Terkel by playing a few of the pieces from …
$100 Laptop Proposed for World's Poor
Stripped Down. This article from New Scientist magazine tells of an idea for bringing low-cost computing to the poor in developing countries. The key to making it possible: no Microsoft.