In the 19th century, Duane Leroy Bliss made a fortune as a timber baron, whose industry destroyed much of Lake Tahoe’s old growth forest. But, Bliss also understood that once the trees grew back that the region could become a popular tourist destination. In 1898, Bliss incorporated the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company to […]
Lake Tahoe by Brompton | Offprint
Doing America's "most beautiful bike ride" in Lake Tahoe, Brompton-style!
Nearly 3,000 people take part in 'America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride'
They call it america's most beautiful bike ride.A choose your own adventure around lake tahoe."A 100-mile ride that takes you up to truckee... A 72-mile option
Ivan Illich and Silence as a Commons | David Bollier
Scott Silver, executive director of Wild Wilderness, calls it the “corporate takeover of nature and the Disneyfication of the wild.” He’s referring the American Recreation Coalition, an industry trade association, and its new “Scenic Byways” website that proposes inserting “tonal patterns” into roadways as a new form of “innovative communication” (i.e., advertising). Kym Murphy, the former v.p. for environmental policy at the Walt Disney Company, explains:
Modeling Canyon Country Scenery with Foam
Evans Lake Forest Education Society – Your ultimate camp experience.
Visionary lays into the web
Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become.
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.
Bike Tahoe – Tahoe's Ultimate Bike Trail Guide
South Tahoe Trails North Tahoe Trails Truckee Trails California Alps Trails Carson Valley Trails
How John O'Nolan Grew Ghost to $750,000/year
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?Hello! 👋🏻 My name is John O'Nolan, and I run a not-for-profit technology foundation w...
Search and Rescue: North Shore | Program | Knowledge Network
Follow volunteer members of North Shore Rescue as they help people in distress in the mountains, canyons and forests of North and West Vancouver.
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland — Oakland Public Library
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland — Dick, Philip K. — In 1950s San Francisco, elderly garage owner Jim Ferguson prepares to retire and sell his business, but when he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, Al Miller, one of Jim's mechanics who thinks that Harman is a crook, sets out to protect his mentor.
The product manager role is a mistake
The popular model Software product companies aren’t usually started by people with a strong background in building software products. Those who most likely end up founding businesses are good at getting funding, and at understanding their target industry. They’ve been in their industry for a long time, know their industry inside out, convinced themselves this means they can do it, and used their relationships and skills to get the money necessary to start a company. These people tend to lead everything personally, and a lot could be said about the damage domain experts cause to their own companies when they lead things. Somebody already did it though, and they did it so well that there’s no point in me doing a worse job.
Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
Almost Famous (2000)
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the…
