Settle-Carlisle Partnership
The Settle to Carlisle railway has an excellent website, with links to good places to stay along the line, plus history and a little online shop.
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Oxford, Iowa
The New York Times, which has a few good pieces today, links to the story of Oxford, IA, whose 700-some population has been photographed by Peter Feldstein, first in 1984, and again this year. The story is interesting, but this quote gives an illustration:
One of the town’s oldest
The lost towns of North Dakota
People are leaving, schools are closing, what is going to happen to North Dakota?
The next war
Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker discusses the Administration’s plans for Iran.
Chris Patten on France
An interview with Chris Patten in le Monde discusses the French economy and Europe’s prospects for the future.
Gospel of Judas
The New York Times has extracts (PDF) of the recently rediscovered Gnostic Gospel of Judas.
E–deliberation and local governance
A paper by Joss Hands on local computer-mediated deliberation.
Project:Denny's
Project:Denny’s. Someone is trying to visit every Denny’s in the world.
Don't pray for me, Argentina
Prayer for the sick appears not merely not to work, but to be actively harmful.
Organic food and pesticides
There’s a fairly interesting article in today’s Guardian about the benefits or otherwise of organic food. It would have been a very good article, but for two pieces of lazy journalism.
The first is the ‘spurious confession’ spin – common in political writing – where a perfectly ordinary statement is