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Upon installing a new harddrive in my laptop, I needed to reinstall the system. After doing that I was rather annoyed at having to reload some of my settings, including web bookmarks. Additionally, when doing this kind of clean system sweep, I tend to get the itch to try alternative programs. For web browsers, the biggest barrier to trying another program is that all my bookmarks live in my long standing browser of choice - Apple’s Safari. Naturally, I looked for solutions. There are ways to import bookmarks, but then what if I want to go back? There are some programs independent of the browser that keep track of bookmarks, but what if I decide I don’t like that program or I am on a public computer? Quickly, it seemed that some sort of Internet based bookmarking system would be best. This conclusion surprised me a bit, because I’d never been too keen on the idea. (more…)

This is a bookmark I really drug out deep from inside my browser. The website is for a modular roof garden system created by two companies - neither of which tell you much about themselves on their websites except for all the things they are “dedicated” to. From contact information, it appears they are based in Pennsylvania. I couldn’t tell you what I was doing when I found this website, which is really is one of the beautiful things about the Internet.

I think that the idea of having a roof top garden is a fantastic one. Living in Honolulu, where space is so precious, I am surprised not to see more of these. Browsing through some of the projects that have used this system, it strikes me that so many of the installations are ONLY for energy savings or storm water management. Quite a few are ONLY for aesthetics from office windows. It is great that having plants on a building infer such great economic benefits that it is done only for these reasons.

Yet, as much as this seems all good and well, the roof should be a place for people too! (more…)

I ran across a very amusing website quite long ago. It is the webpage for an
actual museum, The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), based in Boston. By now I haven’t the slightest idea how I managed to stumble upon this, but I sure am glad I did! I just rediscovered it looking through bookmarks for things worth sharing. There are some real classics, and the art curator descriptions generally send me into a second, heartier round of laughter.

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This series of posts will be the first concerted effort to get some content up and routinely add to it. It will be in the form of a tour of my bookmarks; I’ll be leading you on a bit of a journey of my browsing habits while on the web, what I have found and what goes on in my head when I decide to follow a certain web page.

Since these posts are meant to give a sampling of my interests on the Internet, the subject range will be broad. At first, these may be fairly random. Well, eternally these may be fairly random. But some topics that first debut here may eventually start a whole new line of posts or discussion — and I’ll do my best to let it evolve that way when it is fit to do so.

My first post in the Bookmarks Series follows this post directly and suitably satisfies the criteria for randomness. Enjoy!