Peter's Blog http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog Word is born. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beachheadonline/fMqv/~3/462708306/ http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/2008/11/23/johnny-cash-and-bob-dylan/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:22:03 +0000 Peter http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/?p=838 What more could you want? Listen to a ton of great songs from their 1969 sessions at Aquarium Drunkard.

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If the US government is going to give my tax dollars to the auto industry, I’d rather they’d give my $81.78 to Tesla instead of GM.

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Brilliant.

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]]> http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/2008/10/24/vote-for-barack-obama/feed/ http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/2008/10/24/vote-for-barack-obama/ And now you know http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beachheadonline/fMqv/~3/430057248/ http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/2008/10/23/and-now-you-know/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:55:36 +0000 Peter http://peter.beachheadonline.com/blog/?p=831 BLDGBLOG: The mine hijackers

Glaciers are the future of architectural design.

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Well said. I don’t know many people who can speak extemporaneously for 7 minutes and not once stumble or ‘um’ and ‘ahh’. Then again, it probably wasn’t impromptu.

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Gonzague de Gélis, perhaps my oldest friend, got married yesterday. Congratulations Gonzague and Laury-Anne!

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