Saturday , April 27 2024

Natalie Bennett

Natalie blogs at Philobiblon, on books, history and all things feminist. In her public life she's the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.

paper

You might think there's not much to say about paper, after all it's a technology that's been around for thousands of years (having been invented by the Chinese around the start of the Common Era.) But tens of thousands of tags that you'll find on blog posts here will prove …

Read More »

education

"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control," Pink Floyd sang. But to become functional humans, all children have to learn something, somehow. What bloggers really don't agree on is how. There's a strong blogging community around homeschooling, but also strong defenders of state education in many …

Read More »

2007

2007, the year that was for bloggers: in January, Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union; in February the United Nations concluded that humans were causing global warming; in March, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to the U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted on several counts; in …

Read More »

ebay

eBay is the international web auction site with centres in more than a score of countries around the world. It was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in California. Bloggers often report about the unusual items sold on eBay, from a 1940s flying car to Zimbabwe billion-pound bank notes, about …

Read More »

chinese astrology

Astrology is the belief that human characteristics and behavior, and events, are effected or even controlled by the movement of the planets and stars. Chinese astrology is grounded in a 12-year cycle, with each year in the cycle being named after a particular animal (successively rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, …

Read More »

blog list

The best place to find a blog list on any subject under the sun is of course here on Technorati. But you'll also find that most blogs have what's known as a "blog roll," a listing (often down the side or along the bottom of the screen) of blogs that …

Read More »