This section of my site is for random writings that don’t have their own headings. Many are also on my blog.

Bible

• Interpreting Behemoth and Leviathan: my response to the fantastical interpretations that I have run across.

Book Reviews and Notes

Some of these books are great and I frequently recommend them, others are awful and should be avoided. I also wrote a list of Books Everyone Should Read. As you can guess, I think you should read them.

• Renewable Energy for Your Home by Bryan and Belli
• Changing Planet, Changing Health by Paul Epstein and Dan Ferber
• Winning Our Energy Independence by S. David Freeman
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
• Proficient Motorcycling by David L Hough
• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
  • one page summary
• Craft Cider Making by Andrew Lea
• Making Craft Cider by Simon McKie
• Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg
• The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth
• The Merchants’ War by Frederik Pohl
• Real Cidermaking on a Small Scale by Michael Pooley and John Lomax
• Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider by Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols
• The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
  • timeline of important people and works
• The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm
• Cider, hard and sweet by Ben Watson
• Reading the Landscape of America by May Theilgaard Watts

See also: typeset public domain writing.

Computers

• Cheat Sheet site: a general computer help site.
• How to Evaluate a Techie: how to tell if a tech knows what they are talking about.
• Ecommerce tutorials (old; on the TU CSE server)

Energy

• “Drill, baby, drill!”: thoughts on the silly calls for domestic oil drilling.
• CO₂ emissions and the new CAFE standard: how the 2010 update to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards will change the total amount of CO₂ emitted by cars and trucks in the USA.
• The myth of American gasoline: debunking one version of a common statement.
• The Bakken Formation Oil email: Correcting one of the many “Drill here to solve all our problems” emails.

Government

• Term Limits: Why I am now skeptical of the benefits of term limits.

Statistics

• Gas prices and world car and bicycle production: A look at using graphs to interpret data.
• Car lifetime and miles driven: How long do cars last, and how far are they driven?
• Playing up the numbers: An example of playing up numbers and cherry-picking to suport a political position.
• Rare?: On a disingenuous broadening of the term ‘rare’.