Posts from November 2014

#FridayFive: Thanksgiving Leftovers

View the Friday Five from November 28th, 2014

On this date in 1820, a sperm whale attacked a whaling ship off the coast of South America. The Essex hailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, and was captained by George Pollard Jr. Pollard was only 29, the youngest man to ever command a whaling ship; the Essex, by contrast, was pretty old, and she was also

Throwback Thursday

Stanford research shows right-to-carry gun laws are linked to an increase in violent crime.

The strangely amusing website worldmapswithout.nz is a collection of world maps which — for some odd reason — do not include New Zealand.

#FridayFive: Kevin Kline

View the Friday Five from November 14th, 2014

Throwback Thursday

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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.