- Just 2 More Years Until We’re Done With Floppy Disks, F.A.A. Says
The F.A.A. has been using systems for air traffic controllers, including floppy disks, that date to the 1980s. A planned new system will include a digital display board that will put in one place the information controllers need, with data about disruptions, weather conditions and advisories.
- Building a timberframe home from scratch
using timber and stone from our farm, and living off the grid.
-Thomas Massie’s blog
- Law of the Sea
The United States was among the nations that participated in the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, which took place from 1974 through 1982 and resulted in the international treaty known as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The United States also participated in the subsequent negotiations of modifications to Part XI of the treaty from 1990 to 1994. Although the United States signed and recognized the UNCLOS as a codification of customary international law in 1994, it has not ratified it. The UNCLOS came into force in 1994.
- most distinguished art journal in the English language
The Burlington Magazine is a British monthly publication that covers the fine and decorative arts of all periods. Established in 1903 as The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, it is the longest running and most distinguished art journal in the English language.[1] It has been published by a charitable organ
- Orwell on autobiography
“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
It’s the opening two sentences of Orwell’s 1944 essay “Benefits of Clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dali“.
