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Odds 'n Sods:
Loyal content contributor RBS sent us this "must bookmark" link:
The Librums's
PDF Collection.
It is veritable gold mine of mostly out-of-print books on practical skills.They
are primarily late 19th Century, but there are also a few modern titles like
the "US
Army Special Forces Medical Handbook", "Where There is No Dentist",
and "Where
There is No Doctor." They have lots of free gardening
books, formularies, recipe books, and so forth. The usual
provisos
on 19th
Century
book
reprints
apply:
Most notably, safety standards in those days were not quite the same as today's,
so
be careful
around
harmful or explosive vapors, unshielded blades, and so forth.
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Eric flagged this one: Steve Forbes Says U.S. Dollar Policy Amounts to `Zimbabwe
Economics'
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Charley S. mentioned that the
Fedco Seed Co-op, based in Maine (but with
growers all over the country) is by far the best value in heirloom seeds. Charley
says: "You get, on
average,
twice as much seed for your money (and I've compared them, variety by variety,
with all the best-known companies. They also have the most extensive, information-packed,
and well-written catalog."
