Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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It usually is
... or does "Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan" sound like something a 14-year-old would nail to the wall of his treehouse? The only thing I'd add would be "Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan Laser Patrol." Cool.
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Don’t call me Ishmael, I’ll call you
Recently, on the prompting of our own recently wed Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, I read Daniel Quinn's Ishmael. For those of you not familiar, Ishmael is an influential novel recounting a series of conversations between a man and, well, a telepathic gorilla. Many environmentalists consider it a formative work. (As I was reading it on the bus a girl next to me pointed wide-eyed and said, "I love that book!" Her friend nodded and murmured, "it changes your life.") There is a longstanding web community centered around it.I want to tread somewhat carefully. In the review quoted on the book's cover, some guy says he will divide the books he's read in his life into two categories, those he read before Ishmael and those he read after. There was a time in my life when several books had that effect on me. I guess it started with the works of Tom Robbins (on which I wrote my undergrad thesis), and continued through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There was the Illuminatus Trilogy and other Robert Anton Wilson stuff. A bunch of stuff by the Beats. Several things by Timothy Leary. Just about everything by Alan Watts. The Tao of Physics. That kind of thing. All the hippie classics.
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I hate typing that exclamation point
Al Gore's Current TV has partnered with Yahoo! to create Yahoo! Current Network. This will definitely increase Current's exposure to the treasured Young Affluent Dynamic Online (YODA) crowd.
