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23 Feb 2012, 10:04 am
Earlier today, Secretary of Commerce John Bryson and Federal Trade Commission Chairman John Liebowitz outlined the Obama administration's strategy for ensuring “consumers’ trust in the technologies and companies that drive the digital economy. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 5:01 am
From Bill Bryson's wonderful book "At Home: A Short History of Private Life": The Romans were particularly attached to the combining of evacuation and conversation. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 5:00 am
From "At Home: A Short History of Private Life," by Bill Bryson (page 112): We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 5:54 pm
Silent Thunder is billed as an "eco-thriller. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 5:54 pm
Silent Thunder is billed as an "eco-thriller. [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 3:43 am
— Equality Network (@LGBTIScotland) January 27, 2023 Under the new measures, Bryson is under segregation at Cornton Vale. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 5:14 pm
Wrote Bill Bryson in his memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid":We had the smoothest, most mouth-pleasing banana cream pie at the Toddle House.... [read post]
27 Nov 2011, 8:04 pm
Cir. 2011) Download 11-1199Panel: Lourie, Bryson, Dyk (author) After seven years of litigation between Ricoh Co., the patent holder, and Synopsys, Inc., the latter party prevailed via summary judgment of noninfringement, a decision affirmed by the Federal Circuit earlier this year. [read post]
24 Jan 2015, 8:40 am
Wrote Bill Bryson about Ernie Banks in "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir":My dad was a sportswriter for The Des Moines Register... [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 6:30 am
Said an American who teaches in Japan, where the elementary schools provide unicycles for the kids to ride at recess.ADDED: This story made me remember this passage from Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" — about being an American kid the 1950s:In such a world, injuries and other physical setbacks were actually welcomed. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 4:39 am
The very popular Bill Bryson writes in his books that "I come from Des Moines Iowa, someone had to", and he is not alone, for there are many who call Iowa and the Midwest their home. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 6:46 am
Teenagers, they're supposed to be trouble.This makes me want to quote a passage from one of my favorite books "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" by Bill Bryson. [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 2:50 pm
" -- Bill Bryson, Down UnderSo here I am in lovely Sydney, Australia. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 11:13 am
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson [cd, unabridged]29. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 6:34 pm
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson [cd, unabridged]29. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 1:09 pm
In his blog, Bill Vobach reports on the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Federal Circuit nominee Richard Taranto. [read post]
23 May 2014, 10:40 am
From Bill Bryson's wonderful book "At Home: A Short History of Private Life":Dining room didn’t acquire its modern meaning until the late seventeenth century and didn’t become general in houses until even later. [read post]
11 May 2013, 10:48 am
From Bill Bryson's (delightful!) [read post]
26 Aug 2019, 3:56 pm
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2019ADDED: I am reminded of this passage from "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid," Bill Bryson's memoir of growing up in the 1950s:Edward Teller, the semi-crazed Hungarian-born physicist who was one of the presiding geniuses behind the development of the H-bomb... and his acolytes at the Atomic Energy Commission envisioned using H-bombs to enable massive civil engineering projects on a scale never before conceived—to… [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 12:56 pm
According to Bill Bryson it is the most boring city on earth. [read post]
