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Drezner John Ellis David Frum Hit & Run Instapundit Mickey Kaus Joshua Micah Marshall The Note OxBlog Virginia Postrel Wes Pruden Jim Romenesko Andrew Sullivan Volokh Conspiracy Day by Day Doonesbury Ted Rall Peter Steiner Tom Toles Tom Tomorrow Rob Pegoraro Matt Drudge Cronaca Languagehat Language Log Open Brackets PaleoJudaica Arts Journal Communication Arts Mooch Blue Ridge Blog Candid Colors Conscientious Dublog Ecotone Wiki Found Magazine London and the north Maps and territories Mysterium Smoky Mountain Journal Writing with light D.U.I. Studio Acme Art Company Ballet Met CCAD Columbus Arts Columbus Arts Festival Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Symphony Dialogue Franklin Park Conservatory Glass Axis Music in the Air Opera Columbus Thurber House Wexner Center City of Bexley City of Columbus Columbus City Council Columbus Police Columbus Public Schools OTENA egroup OTENA-NIC egroup OTENA-tours egroup OTENA-trustees egroup Old Oaks egroup Ohio Parsons Blockwatch egroup				f D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 0 3 Added photos To the Green Lawn Cemetery series Having previously decided to alter my spelling of "cemetary" to the preferred "cemetery," I have now decided that "Greenlawn" will henceforth be presented as "Green Lawn." This is by no means a universal practice, but does seem preponderant. Green Lawn, Three Green Lawn, Four Green Lawn, Five Green Lawn, Sullivant Big Bear announcements Trickle out. Now Giant Eagle is buying both the German Village and the Victorian Village stores. Amy's song Link for Lisa: Amazon Track number 4, Opus 90 D.899 Impromtu in A-flat major, allegretto The clip starts after the key changes, after it has already settled into A-flat major. Links Ban comic sans Brian Pearson, photographer Ohio skyscrapers Alphabet in photographs This is really cool. I like the "E" in particular. Found Magazine Columbus, Indiana \| New York Times You know this is a different kind of place as soon as you leave Interstate 65. The Columbus interchange itself, dominated by a twin-ribbed steel arch, is distinctive, as is a bold, single-pylon suspension bridge across the White River between the interchange and the city center. Both are painted bright red. As you stroll through the low-built downtown or drive through the trim, quiet residential areas, preferably with the architectural map published by the Columbus Visitors Center in hand, buildings with distinguished pedigrees pop up at almost every turn. Most are successes; a few are masterpieces. ... Columbus boasts a library by I. M. Pei, who reinvented the Louvre; a hospital by Robert A. M. Stern; a posterlike fire station by Robert Venturi; a post office by Kevin Roche; a mall by Cesar Pelli; and a school by Richard Meier, the designer of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Wow. A very different kind of place from Columbus, Ohio. Work (shortly -- briefly) Then home through the never-ending rain and expected snow r D E C E M B E R 4 , 2 0 0 3 Choir rehearsal Five tenors and we sounded good Bexley afterward Car back And just in time: rain, maybe snow, makes walking an unpleaasant alternative. Though I really didn't need the dianetics brochure that came with it -- I had just been getting over the feeling that the place was a little strange. Thermostat wars Usually I don't get involved in setting the temperatures, but it was cold at work. And the timed programs are set by the administration department which works from 8 to 5 -- no other department leaves that early, but the temperatures drop at 5 sharp anyway. w D E C E M B E R 3 , 2 0 0 3 Links Supershapes: Ordinary Spaces War after the war \| George Packer \| New Yorker Mysterium \| weblog A policy translates to losses \| Washington Post Walking to work 40 minutes -- not many people on the streets Not a bad walk at all t D E C E M B E R 2 , 2 0 0 3 Catching up on the week After staying home Monday with a sick car, the work has piled up. Car to Wihl's for actual work And he gave me a ride to work; Kevlin gave me a ride home m D E C E M B E R 1 , 2 0 0 3 Yury moving out He stopped in three times to tell me that he would be back Wednesday for the rest of his stuff. Presidential award Chris will get a stipend for a year to do nothing but write, and Stephanie is pleased that he won't have to leave town to do it. Car to Wihl's For examination He brought out another mechanic to look at it, because "his car has bullet holes in it too." I suppose that's a kind of expertise you don't find everywhere. He looked. He said, "Oh, that was bad luck." Not really what I wanted to hear. Links Gibralter Island \| Columbus Dispatch Program director Jeffrey Reutter said Ohio students from fourth grade through high school come to the laboratory, located on 6.5-acre Gibraltar Island at Put-in-Bay, to identify plankton and dissect fish on a 11⁄2-day field trip. "We improve the students’ performance," Reutter said. Lauren Borstein, an eighthgrade student at Columbus Jewish Day School, said the handson approach to learning at Stone Lab made it fun. High and dry on High Street \| Columbus Dispatch Downtown’s welcome mat is in tatters. The northeast corner ofBroad and High streets, the symbolic center of the region, remains dormant nearly a year after city officials condemned the buildings there. Immediately north, aging storefronts show few signs of life. While Don M. Casto Organization officials say they’ll unveil plans for Broad and High in January, no such prediction comes from the company that controls most of the other vacant space north of there. The Tonti Organization and its partners own at least six buildings in what for generations was the most vibrant corridor in Columbus. Founder A. Patrick Tonti bought some of the properties when John F. Kennedy was president. His son, Tom, now runs the business. He didn’t return calls for comment. The former flagship Madison’s store near Gay and High streets hasn’t been occupied since early 1995. The adjacent former home of "A" Deli is vacant. Next door, artwork by Benjamin Crumpler is on display, but doors to the former Richard Bennett Custom Apparel shop are locked. The artwork is not for sale. The story ran with a nice photo of the Madison's building that, being the Dispatch, presumably is for sale. Georgia's partner in democracy: U.S. \| Christian Science Monitor From Paris to Pakistan, Americans have grown used to television footage of American flags going up in flames or being trampled under foot by angry crowds. But in Georgia, a handful of American flags have been held high among the sea of opposition banners that protesters used to usher in their revolution - waved in gratitude for Washington's role in facilitating democratic change here. "We are so grateful to the US and European Union, our friends that have supported us," says Giorgi Baramidze, a chief strategist of interim President Nino Burjanadze. "We can now teach our children how to defend democracy, using Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' as the example." 1,000 times too many humans? \| Discovery William Rees, professor of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia, disagrees that humans are abnormal and said, "I would use the term 'unusual' instead." Rees explained that humanity has been inordinately successful. Unlike other species, humans can eat almost anything, adapt to any environment and develop technologies based on knowledge shared through written and spoken language. Rees, however, said that we may be "fatally successful." He agrees that industrial society as presently configured is unsustainable. "In the past 25 years we have adopted a near-universal myth of 'sustainable development' based on continuous economic growth through globalization and freer trade," Rees wrote in a recent Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society paper. "Because the assumptions hidden in the globalization myth are incompatible with biophysical reality the myth reinforces humanity's already dysfunctional ecological behavior." Rees believes unsustainability is, in part, driven by a natural predisposition to expand, in the same way that bacteria or any other species will multiply. He claims that it is an old problem, reflected in the collapses of numerous civilizations, such as the early human population at Easter Island. Losing the media war \| Editorial \| Washington Post If al-Arabiya really were a mere tool of the Iraqi resistance, the U.S. challenge in Iraq would be easier than it is. In fact the channel merely reflects as well as drives common Arab and Iraqi opinion about the United States and the occupation -- which is mistrustful, misinformed and often antagonistic. Censorship will only reinforce such biases while driving up al Arabiya's viewership. The only effective way to attack the problem is to offer an alternative -- or many alternatives -- that give Iraqis and other Arabs access to quality programming and credible information, provided by professional journalists who are independent of the governing authority. This ought to be something that an American administration can get right. That it has not done so, after seven months in power, is an inexcusable failing. But hardly surprising, considering the administration's opinion of and antagonism towards the media at home. n N O V E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 0 3 The country's loss DaimlerChrysler heads to court of '98 merger \| NYT I can understand being upset at the loss of a major U.S. company; Chrysler's design innovations and market momentum have been lost under its new German Daimler managers and the U.S. car market, not to mention Chrysler employees, are worse off for it. But I can't see that the answer is to give billions of dollars to Kirk Kerkorian, who surely must have known what was going on at the time. In one corner will be Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire Las Vegas casino operator and the largest shareholder of the premerger Chrysler. Mr. Kerkorian is suing DaimlerChrysler because he contends company officials misrepresented the 1998 transaction as a "merger of equals" that would lead to two semiautonomous companies, one German and one American. Instead, he says, DaimlerChrysler has become a German company and the struggling Chrysler division is run by executives dispatched from DaimlerChrysler's corporate headquarters in Stuttgart. The local version was the "merger" of Bank One and Bank of Chicago that saw the headquarters of the new Bank One depart for Chicago, and the former Bank One management sidelined and forced out. Nothing looked equal about it at the time, and I can't imagine any honest surprise at the outcome. Fauré's Requiem WOSU broadcast of the Broad Street Presbyterian performance from Sept. 11 of this year. Lux aeterna luceat eis First Sunday of Advent Every Valley, John Ness Beck Dinner in Bexley afterwards > NOVEMBER 04