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Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 10, 2008
From the air there’s a strange kind of vast sameness to the Grand Canyon. It’s a carved up layercake of variously colored rock that’s less dramatic viewed from above than from its edges or its insides. There’s one …
Also tagged: photography, places, travel, science, past
Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 4, 2008
In September I took two flights across the country that featured lots of clear views of the sights below. I think I took 700+ pictures on each of them. I’ve been posting them to Flickr in slow motion, trying to …
Also tagged: art, photography, places, life, travel
Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 3, 2008
Joe Biden might not have been lying when he said global warming was “caused by man”, but he was at best only partially right. The globe has been warming for the last 20000 years or so: ever since the last ice sheet …
Also tagged: science
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 1, 2008
(Note: this post was made mistakenly as a page, and didn’t go up at first. Now it’s here. Thanks to commenters for the help.) I’ve flown over these coal mines in New Mexico and Arizona many times, but never checked to …
Also tagged: politics, business, news, photography, places, life, travel, past
Doc Searls Weblog - Jul 27, 2008
This shot here has found a home here as well.
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Doc Searls Weblog - Jul 26, 2008
A few dozen million years ago, in the Eocene — not far back, as geology goes — a large lake covered much of what’s now western Colorado and eastern Utah. A lot of organic muck fell to the bottom, and now that muck is …
Also tagged: news, photography, life, problems, travel, ideas, past
Doc Searls Weblog - Jul 5, 2008
InciWeb just updated 8 minutes ago, with this report: Fire continued creeping to the north, east, and west with limited movement due to competing wind that kept the fire from making any significant runs. On the south …
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Doc Searls Weblog - Jul 4, 2008
I’ve loaded too many pictures onto this blog, so for this round I’m going to just point to shots elsewhere: in this case to a photo set of maps built with .kml files from the MODIS Active Fire Program and Google Earth …
Also tagged: health, news, events, places, life, problems, travel, journalism
Doc Searls Weblog - Jun 8, 2008
You fly enough and they bump you up to Business Class whether you want it or not. That’s how United Airlines works, and for most passengers that’s not a bad thing. In my case I often don’t want it because it means …
Also tagged: art, photography, fun, places, problems, travel, science
Doc Searls Weblog - Apr 25, 2008
To get (and stay) in shape, I’ve been spending more time off-grid. Less blogging and twittering, more time communing with nature. Some of that time I’m not indulging my curiousities. Or at least I’m resisting them. No …