Doug

From an 1885 travel guide I found on Google Book Search: "San Mateo County occupies the greater part of the peninsula between the southern arm of San Francisco Bay and the ocean. Its most interesting features, as considered from the standpoint of this book, are the country residences of the millionaires near Menlo Park, Belmont and Millbrae, the Palo Alto horse farm, the summer hotels of Pilarcitos, La Honda and Pescadero; the camp grounds in the basin of the San Gregorio Creek." - Doug

"The county seat, San Jose, sometimes called the "Garden City," has 13,000 inhabitants, is a prosperous and beautiful town, embowered in trees, and surrounded by a rich horticultural district. The spaciousness and elegance of the gardens, the cleanness of the streets and roads, and the comfortable appearance of the dwellings, indicate that the people have good means." - Doug

"Francisco said he never saw the signs. He lost sense of time. He was prepared, he said, to remain in the subway system forever." - Doug from Bookmarklet

What's the book count so far? How many read? - Derek Mahar

I've purchased 12 books on the Kindle so far. Of those, I've finished 4, started and abandoned another 3, and 5 are pending. It feels much harder to abandon a physical book -- I feel a moral obligation to the environment to get value out of it :-) - Doug

1/3 is pretty good! Are your books mostly fiction or non? Do you prefer reading on paper or on your Kindle? - Derek Mahar from email

"These statutes also deprive the Lovings of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U. S. 535, 541 (1942). See also Maynard v. Hill, 125 U. S. 190 (1888). To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of... more... - Doug

I see many parallels to today's fight over gay marriage. - Evan Parker

This has to be the most amazing week for Google launches since 2004 - Doug from Bookmarklet

"GPS GSM collar for elephants" - Doug from Bookmarklet

"I’m like, We can do this, but it’s not exactly what we had in mind for how EvilAd ™ would be used. I mean, this stuff you’re talking about, isn’t it kind of evil? He says it depends on how you define “evil,” and the definition he uses is the one he was taught at Harvard Business School which is that if the harm is only done to random strangers that you’ll never meet, like a bank that’s making money off time-bomb mortgages with exploding ARMs but never actually has contact with the frigtards who take out the dumbass exploding time-bomb mortgages, then strictly speaking it’s not evil." - Doug from Bookmarklet

If you don't eat your mandelbulb, you can't have any pudding! - Doug

"Women in the study who were told they had a serious illness were seven times as likely to become separated or divorced than men with similar health problems, according to the report published in the journal Cancer." - Doug from Bookmarklet

Once every hour it is 4:20 somewhere in the world. Well, twice really. - Daniel Dulitz