April 2009
Osprey in New Jersey →
Osprey, Sandy Hook - photo by Brian Richards
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus)) is a large raptor (bird of prey) usually seen near bodies of water that support adequate fish populations….
World Digital Library →
From The Washington Post, I discovered that another large digital archive is online. The World Digital Library
ambitiously wants to centralize cultural treasures from around the world….
Princess Marie, Rumania →
Princess Marie, Rumania (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. Princess Marie, Rumania [no date recorded on caption card] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Format: Glass…
Bush Administration Endangered Species Rule Rolled... →
This week, the Obama administration rolled back a Bush-era rule excusing oil and gas companies in polar bear habitat from special reviews designed to ensure they are not harming the…
Conversations With Satan and Mark Twain →
Mark Twain may be dead, but he’s still publishing books. “You had better shove this in the stove,” Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, “for I don’t want any absurd…
Preservation New Jersey →
Founded in 1978, Preservation New Jersey advocates for and promotes historic preservation to protect and enhance the heritage of New Jersey’s communities. PNJ is the only statewide private…
Making a Living At The Fifth Estate →
From the Wall Street Journal site,
comes “America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire.” Nothing shocking in the headline. I know that a few
people blog for a living. But wait - I read…
Wolves in New Jersey →
Wolf Habitat at Turtleback Zoo via state.nj.us/gspt/photo_gallery.htm
As we said earlier here, there are no wolves in the wild in NJ, but you can visit them in captivity. If you…
Poem in Your Pocket Day Goes Mobile →
This Thursday, April 30, is the second national Poem In Your Pocket Day. It’s a simple idea -
select a poem you love and carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on…
Recycle Yourself →
Not to be depressing, but I have been thinking about dying. I have been thinking specifically about what to do with my body after I die.
This line of thinking came about when I was driving recently…
“Yes, I love my baby,
and she’s bound to love me some.
Now, she throws...”
– “Circle Round The Sun” JT
“On certain Sundays in November when the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of...”
– Just listening to “Hard Candy” by Counting Crows
Pack It In, Pack It Out →
“Pack it In, Pack it Out” is a waste management philosophy of environmentalism. The idea is simple: whatever you bring into a natural area - bags, bottles, trash - must be taken out of the…
Humpback Whale Rescue, Sandy Hook, New Jersey →
Government rescuers released a humpback whale who was entangled eight miles off Sandy Hook N.J. on February 26, 2009. The humpback whale had become entangled in a lobster pot and netting. The…
Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 30 →
April 30 is the second national Poem In Your Pocket Day. Just select a poem you love and carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 30. Poems from pockets will…
Guerilla Gardening →
Guerrilla gardening is political gardening. It is a form of environmental, nonviolent direct action. I suppose it might fall under land rights, land reform, or permaculture.
People who practice…
New Jersey Folk Festival →
Saturday, April 25, 2009! 35th Anniversary!
Project Bud Burst →
I have been following signs in my local area for a lot of years of nature telling me that it was time to plant in my garden. It is something you have to do locally, so my dates probably apply to New…
Happy 445th Birthday →
And is this how Billy looked at age 14?
Endangered Right Whales May Be Rebounding On... →
Some good news about North Atlantic right whales. These whales do not receive as much attentions as humpbacks and killer whales in the press, and good news about the environment also doesn’t get the…
Your Google Profile →
Admit it - you have Googled your own name. It’s okay. Me too. And other people have Googled you. I really mean
Googled, not just searched online. Now, Google has released something called Google…
Patent Office Rejects Blackboard's Claims →
via Chronicle of Higher Education Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a preliminary ruling rejecting all 57 claims in a
software patent that Blackboard Inc. used to…
Ice Stories →
I was reading on the Stop Global Warming website and the news is not good. Just take a look at some recent news about ICE… There is a huge ice shelf in the Antarctic (the size of Connecticut!)…
Google Lime Scholarship for Students with... →
Google has announced an addition to their scholarship programs. The Google Lime Scholarship for Students with
Disabilities is a partnership with Lime to offer
scholarships to students with…
More Moodle Books →
If you’re
looking for a book about Moodle, try the Moodle Books
database,
which contains a variety of books and manuals, for both teachers and
administrators, written by members of the…
College Bookstores Putting eTextbooks On Shelves →
Quick pointer to an article
on The Chronicle titled “College Bookstores Move to Put Electronic Textbooks on Their Shelves”
that I came across in my continuing research into this trend. I…
Happy Birthday, John Muir →
John Muir (1838-1914) was America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He has been called “The Father of our National Parks,” “Wilderness Prophet,” and “Citizen of…
W.S. Merwin Wins Pulitzer Prize →
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced yesterday at Columbia University. The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin won for Poetry. William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin (born…
Plant A Billion Trees - one dollar at a time -... →
Policy Change →
Amazon is a company I use very frequently. I think they have done a lot for readers - and readers have done a lot for them. It’s a place I often find (new or used) poetry books that I can’t find in local stores. So I am disturbed to read (on Mark Doty’s blog) that the company seems to have instituted a policy of identifying books they classify as “adult material” and...
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)
Endangered Whales Off The NJ Coast →
There are nine mammals protected as endangered in NJ, and six of those are whales. All six are also Federally Endangered, and so they are protected by Federal laws while off the coast of New Jersey.
The Vandals of Rhode Island →
Managing a public-access
wiki is a little like trying to grow a garden in a land fill. Every time you go to check on how things are doing,
you find another pile of someone else’s refuse…
Being Mindful In The Garden →
Theologian Vigen Guroian practices his theology in his garden as richly as in a church.
I heard him speak on the radio and the host said that Guroian describes early spring, the time of Lent, as “the…
Salazar Needs To Decide on Endangered Species Act →
As a followup to my earlier post, it was announced late last week that U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to overturn a controversial Bush…
Nature’s Calendar →
I have been following signs in my local area for a lot of years of nature telling me that it was time to plant in my garden. It is something you have to do locally, so my dates probably apply to New…
Paterson's Great Falls Named National Historical... →
Great Falls photo via Flickr by Ken Ronkowitz
President Obama recently signed into law the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Act. The Paterson Act is part of an omnibus…
Reviewing iPhone App Reviews →
I want Your iPhone apps to review!
Like
the scary guy at the left (the NJIT mascot, the Highlander) is demanding, we want to review new iPhone
applications. The explosion of new apps in…
I Hear Technology's Winged Chariot →
Back in 1980, I was teaching ninth graders about programming in BASIC on Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 1 computers. It was educational technology at the cutting edge. I loved reading about what the next hot tech thing was going to be and getting into it as soon it was available. Most of my fellow teachers weren’t into it, so it was easy to be at the edge. Even though I was an English teacher, I...
What about wolves? →
People sometimes ask me when I give talks on endangered species in NJ about deer, bears, coyotes and even wolves. Well, NJ does have all of them (but wolves only in captivity, not in the wild…
“If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail....”
– The Quotations Page
Record Store Day is April 18 →
Remember records? LPs, albums, vinyl, 45s, 78s, singles, cardboard covers… I do. I have half a storage room of them and I still own a turntable to play them. I keep hearing that they are…
I Hear Technology's Winged Chariot →
Back in 1980, I was teaching ninth graders about programming in BASIC on Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 1 computers. It was educational technology at the cutting edge. I loved reading about what the next hot tech thing was going to be and getting into it as soon it was available.
Most of my fellow teachers weren’t into it, so it was easy to be at the edge. Even though I was an English teacher, I...
Part-Time Assistants Needed to Protect Critical... →
Here’s a good opportunity to help with NJ’s endangered species program and get paid. Short-term shorebird stewards are needed by the Endangered and Nongame Species Program to protect critical…
Best of NJ →
Thanks to to the Best of NJ site for mentioning Endangered New Jersey as a “Best of NJ” blog this month! The site picks a number “Best of” categories including Best Places to Visit or to Live,…
Endangered Serendipity35 →
I have not been much of a blogger on this site the past few weeks. It’s not that I haven’t been blogging though. Some of you who look at my blog aggregator know that I am posting on several other blogs that are collected there (using Tumblr). The blog that has had my attention lately is a new one that I launched in late March. It is called “Endangered New Jersey.” It comes...
Lest We Forget →
Today, Virginia Tech will remember the lives of the 32 students and faculty who were taken from their loved ones and the university community on this day in 2007. All of us…
Your Garden As Wildlife Habitat →
The last official frost date for northern NJ is about a month away. But, if you have been enjoying the warmer weather and working in your garden, you should consider making your garden and…
