whitcwa, I know you weren't talking to me, but I did think of checking farrier when I first visited the site. Farrier is not listed, but it's modern-day counterpart, blacksmith is. Wagoner, wheelwright, chairman, President, and maintenance worker are not listed either. You can, however, get results for specific trades. Despite it's drawbacks in data availability, it is a fast and very neat presentation.

My apologies, anywhere you see Michigan in the above statement, insert Minnesota.

UC-Berkley created Job Voyager using data from the Michigan IPUMS project, with influence on the design of the presentation of the data being inspired by BabyNameWizard.com. Laura Wattenberg is the author of the Baby Name Wizard guide to names (Broadway, 2005) and creator of BabyNameWizard.com. Whether or not she is the first one to use this software in such a context, I don't know. The software package is provided by Adobe. UC-Berkley also has a partner in production in Michigan Public Radio in this project.

Even though we can now sign documents electronically,the need to sign a legal document in cursive will likely never go away.Cursive is also nice for letters and notes,to others,of a personal nature,if you know the recipient can read your handwriting.In school,we were taught that cursive flows easier and quicker;but alas,I look at my notepad and I see that I always print my notes.As for historical documents,have you ever tried to read documentation from prior to the 19th century?Just as spelling,grammar,and syntax has changed over the previous centuries of written language,so they will change over the next 150-200 years,making the written (and typed) word difficult to read and understand.

It's always neat to hear about the latest technology that can save energy. For further information, I'm certain there are numerous websites available concerning energy savings, but two of my favorites are energystar.gov and dulley.com.

I don't remember the exact town, but there is a medium sized base near a small seaside town in Alaska that has been abandoned and the homes therein are available for lease/purchase. Oh! And lets not forget about the ...Flats in Nevada where the abandoned nuclear test site is. They have some lovely fixer-upper bungalows real cheap, quiet neighbors (actually non-existent), and it's not that far from Las Vegas. Ha!! Just kidding about the last one.

I just love these stories about the creation of Disneyland and Disneyworld (when the facts are right). In the comments section, facts are corrected and if you do any Internet research on the subject, you get all sorts of rumors and stories which are difficult to sort fact from fiction. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, I think Neatorama covered the Haunted Mansion stories not too long ago, but it may have been part of a larger story on the creation of the park in general. You'll have to do a search for it, if you like.

Ha! I'll bet you typed that with a smile. I always did like Mr. Twain, and have heard that quote before.

According to an article in Reader's Digest, numbers and statistics can be manipulated as desired to support the author's point. Unfortunately, this article was written over 20 years ago and I don't remember the date of printing, but I am sure the conclusion is still true today.

I am suddenly reminded of the TV commercial a few years ago where the fellow sighed and declared to his wife..."I've finished the Internet." Funny!!!

The Federal Government, and their contractors will still use dongles on "training" laptop computers in their classes to protect from copying the programs. The problem is that usually, by the time that the computer gets to you, so many students have used the laptop, and contaminated/corrupted the program that there is not one clean/protected copy of the program left on the computer, making understanding and learning the new software difficult in many cases.

Just to add to the marketing aspect,there are companies that specialize in providing all those beautiful stock photos of people,places,and things that you see when you visit a website.By the way Alex,I don't know how credible the story was,but I read on howstuffworks.com last week that those few great minds recently met (in California,I think),and have declared that we have now moved into the period of Web 3.0.Thanks for the post though.This information will be useful for a long time to come.

Nice! This brings a new perspective to the "fight game". Thanks for the post Miss Cellania.

Yea,my brother used to be with Cingular and travelled all over a three state area with complete,clear, and trouble-free phone calls wherever he went,even on the middle of a lake or deep in the woods.I just joined his "FamilyTalk" Plan on AT & T and for the last two weeks have been talking to someone about 40 miles away,and the call cuts in and out.Some service,huh.In this age of mergers and takeovers I think I saw one last night.The people at Embarq that promised NEVER to raise your Internet access rates are now partnering with some other company and changing their name,too.Get ready for an access rate increase before too long.I was not paying too close attention,and the commercial flashed by so fast I did not catch the name of the partner or the new company name.And I didn't take the time before writing this to research at Embarq.

I live in North Carolina and have known about this place for a long time. If I had known it was newsworthy and no one had published it, then I should have submitted the story. Oh, well, a day late, and a dollar short.