New & Interesting Stuff Dec. 21, 2012

1939 by David Gelernter

Barge Traffic Threatened on Missouri & Mississippi Rivers

Book Review: #STEM Books for #DeSTEMber

Christ came that we might have life

-Christmas Featured Book

-Christmas Featured Category

-Christmas Links 2012

-Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Dead Sea Scrolls Online (Video)

Don’t Fear the Nexus

DOT Inspector General Gets Extension to Spend Stimulus Funds

First John

Fluoridation Comes to California City

Going Subterranean in Paris

Hobbits are Real, Sort of

I believe that God will make a way

If you don’t think your valuable, others won’t either

The last of human freedoms is to choose one's own way

The Lord can win a battle whether he has many warriors or few

The message of frustration is an exciting signal

New & Interesting Stuff on Ada Lovelace's Birthday 2012

Optimism facilitates willingness to take risks

Quiet by Susan Cain

Second & Third John

STEM Books

The Story of One Cave, and the Bats who Live There

Trusting the Lord means safety

Under Paris: Catacombs, Sewers & Hipsters?

What You Were Looking for In December 2012

Will the Missouri River be the Next Colorado River?

New & Interesting Stuff Jan. 8, 2012

All things are possible to him who believes

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid

Best of What I Read in 2012

Bill Watch: 112^th Congress

Celebrate National Science Fiction Day by Learning To Live in the Future

Draper Prize Awarded to Cell Phone Pioneers

Have faith in God

How The U.S. Stopped Malaria, One Cartoon At A Time

I Declare by Joel Osteen

If we let things terrify, life will not be worth living

Infrastructure in the Fiscal Cliff Deal

January Featured Category

Jude

New & Interesting Stuff Dec. 21, 2012

New Congress Gets to Work (Sort of), Other Federal Government News

Our fears are paper in the presence of God's power

Revisit: Colorado River, Missouri River

Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan by Rick Bowers

New & Interesting Stuff Halloween 2012

40 Years of the Clean Water Act

-Clean Water Act Turns 40

Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett

Enough with the bottled water! Stan Lee says so!

Feel Free to Insult Me, Says Mr. Bean

God wants to set you free

The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove

It is never to soon...to change the direction of your life

Man...is not equipped for mediocrity

Missouri Hosts Meeting on Kansas-City Area Rivers, TMDLs, Oct. 29, 2012

New & Interesting Stuff Oct. 22, 2012

The only thing...between a man and what he wants..is often merely the will to try and faith to believe

Second Samuel

Water Scarcity

Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Infrastructure? (Updated)

The World’s Interconnected Infrastructure

New & Interesting Stuff Nov. 20, 2012

Are We Better Off Privatizing Water?

The difference between playing to win and playing to not lose is the difference between success and mediocrity

DuckTales was Awesome

Lincoln Biographies

The man who assumes success tends always to have success

New & Interesting Stuff Nov. 13, 2012

Pollution prevention internships find lost value, launch new careers

Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Should “Comic Book” be “Comicbook”?  Stan Lee Thinks So

They changed “ground water” to “groundwater” and Wal-Mart changed to Walmart.  Why not?  Comicbooks have been around for almost 80 years, maybe it’s time we had a proper word for them.

Thanksgiving Featured Book

Thanksgiving Featured Category

U.S. On the Verge of Water Anarchy

U.S. Poised for Energy Self-Sufficiency

What am I doing well?

Whatever you can do, or dreamed you can, begin it

You did not receive you a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear

New & Interesting Stuff June 4, 2012

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Big Con by David W. Maurer

Book Review: The Big Roads by Earls Swift

Department of Defense Doesn’t Get Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D

Elvis at the Pearly Gates

First Thessalonians

Great American Infrastructure: Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge-Evergreen Point Bridge

Maurice Sendak Passes

NASA Sees Groundwater from Space

NASA Watches Ocean Currents…From SPACE!

New & Interesting Stuff April 19,2012

Stan Lee Web-Slings in Spider-Man Video Game

New & Interesting Stuff April 19,2012

12 “Christian” Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy by Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Alternative Fuels and Energy Resources Articles and Links (Updated)

The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont & The Revenge of Kali-Ra by K. K. Beck

The Big Roads by Earl Swift

Bill Watch - 112th Congress (Updated with more bills related to infrastructure and the environment)

Colossians

EPA Announces Director for Gulf of Mexico Program

Fluoridation

God wants us to be constantly...rising to new heights

New & Interesting Stuff April 5, 2012

The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull

Ruth (229)

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 26, 2012

Chuck Jones’ 100^th Birthday

Cleveland Airport to Honor Superman Creators

Energy that breaks the status quo...

God is an odds-breaker

Library of Congress’s wonderfully diverse list of ‘Books That Shaped America’

--Tweet about yours with the hashtag #booksthatshapedme

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 13, 2012

Philemon

Russell E. Train, Conservationist & Environmental Policy Pioneer, Died

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

Top 15 Books Reviewed So Far

What You Are Looking For

New & Interesting Stuff July 26, 2012

Bill Gates To Reinvent The Toilet

Bill Watch - 112th Congress (Updated)

Dramatic Digs Mark Panama Canal Expansion Progress

God is most glorified in use when we are most satisfied in Him

Great Wall of China Longer Than Previously Reported

It’s Not About Me by Max Lucado

Links to Infrastructure-Related Organizations (Updated)

New & Interesting Stuff July 12, 2012

One Bad Mama

Operation Get Healthy

Republican Candidates Speak About Infrastructure

Sewer Overflow Bill Introduced

Stop Whining, Start Living by Dr. Laura

What Does a Toilet Do?

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 13, 2012

250 Books Reviewed on Keenan’s Book Reviews

Alternative Fuels and Energy Resources Articles and Links (Updated)

Candidates & Infrastructure (Updated)

EPA Accepting Applications for Environmental Education Grants until Nov. 21

I have never known a man to die of overwork, but I have known many to die of doubt

Interconnected Infrastructure

Invest in Water Infrastructure: Put this Blogger to Work

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 10, 2012

Pastoral Letters

See yourself...as a brand-new idea from heaven

Walter Gibson Interview

New & Interesting Stuff Aug. 22, 2012

The great hindrance to worship is...that we are willing to settle for such pitiful pleasures

The notion that to desire our own good…is a bad thing...is no part of the Christian faith

Just Say Thanks! by R. T. Kendall

New & Interesting Stuff Aug. 10, 2012

We are commanded to feel, not just think or decide

New & Interesting Stuff February 15, 2012

3 economic misconceptions that need to die
Almost all good writign begins with terrible first efforts
Asteroid Vesta may hold vast water ice reserves
Bill Watch (Updated)
Bill Quickies (maybe not the best title)
Black History Month Links
Collapse of 19th-Century Sewer Closes Portland Street
Congress Debates Infrastructure, Jobs Bills
Disney comic strip artists kit
Ephesians
Golden Gate Bridge 75 Years Old
Highway Trust Fund Running Out of Money
Infrastructure & Environment Tweets
Infrastructurist Blog Closes
Life is So Good by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
New & Interesting Stuff January 9, 2012
Nominations Announced for Federal Environmental & Energy Positions
On the Mississippi…and Lake Michigan
Passion is always a slippery slope to God
Power in Praise by Merlin R. Carothers
Short Items

Sudoku
-Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle
-Solving the Sudoku: Magic number turns out to be 17
-There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem

Water News
We can’t live without water operators

New & Interesting Stuff Oct. 22, 2012

Anything is possible if a person believes

Bibliography

Christians are not so to be so much quitters as starters

Google Doodle Celebrates 107^th Anniversary of Little Nemo

Other cool doodles include

-Alan Turing

-Golden Gate Bridge

-Heinrich Hertz

-Star Trek

Halloween Links

Hebrews

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me

If you want to conquer fear...go out and get busy

The Most Effective Organization in the U.S. by Robert A. Watson & Ben Brown

New & Interesting Stuff Oct. 16, 2012

Pauline Letters

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 10, 2012

Attitudes are more important than facts

Book Review: Elixir by Brian Fagan

Candidates & Infrastructure

Courageous people aren't always so

Diversion Toilet Wins Gates Prize

From virtue comes money and every other good of man

Just Write by Walter Dean Myers

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 5, 2012

Second Timothy

Secrets You Keep from Yourself by Dan Neuharth

Titus

Best of What I Read in 2012

It’s time again to help the discerning reader concentrate on that to 20 percent of books so they can get the most out of their reading.  Here are the best of what I read in 2012.

1. First Peter

2. Second Peter

3. The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont

4. Just Say Thanks! by R. T. Kendall

5. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

6. It’s Not About Me by Max Lucado

7. Quiet by Susan Cain

Previous best of lists

Best of the First 250 Books Reviewed

Best of the First 200 Books Reviewed

Best of the First 100 Books Reviewed

Books That Made a Difference to Me

Annual best of lists

Best of What I Read in 2011

Best of What I Read in 2010

Best of What I Read in 2009

Best of What I Read in 2008
Best of What I Read in 2007

New & Interesting Stuff July 12, 2012

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Big Con by David W. Maurer

Book Review: The Big Roads by Earls Swift

Department of Defense Doesn’t Get Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D

Don't be afraid, God is with you

Eat That Cookie! by Liz Jazwiec

Elvis at the Pearly Gates

First Samuel

First Thessalonians

Great American Infrastructure: Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge-Evergreen Point Bridge

Maurice Sendak Passes

NASA Sees Groundwater from Space

NASA Watches Ocean Currents…From SPACE!

New & Interesting Stuff April 19,2012

The people who get on in this world are people who look for the circumstances they want

Second Thessalonians

Stan Lee Web-Slings in Spider-Man Video Game

What a man think of himself, that is what determines...his fate

New and Interesting Stuff March 7, 2012

509th CES ensures safe water quality for Whiteman

Attitude in a Nutshell by Sam Glen (222)

Be All You Can Be! by John C. Maxwell (223)

Confidence is one of life's most attractive attributes

Glossary (Updated)

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (220)

New & Interesting Stuff February 15, 2012

Revved! by Harry Paul and Ross Reck (224)

Scholastic’s A+ Guide to Book Reports by Louise Colligan (221)

New & Interesting Stuff on Ada Lovelace's Birthday 2012

It’s Ada Lovelace’s 197^th Birthday

-Ada Lovelace (Computer History Museum)

-Ada Lovelace (1915-1852)

-Ada Lovelace: 'The Enchantress of Numbers'

-Ada Lovelace, World's First Computer Programmer, Celebrated With Google Doodle

-Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know

-Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace

-Google Pays Tribute to Ada Lovelace

Also Today in History: First Traffic Light Installed

$1 of Highway Spending Creates $2 of Economic Activity

25 Audio and Video Reviews on Keenan’s Book Reviews

Alternative Fuels and Energy Resources Articles and Links (Updated)

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act News

Any business run by people who love will have black figures in its ledgers

Bill Watch - 112th Congress (Updated)

Conspiracy Theory Notes

Dickhead Roboticists

EPA Blog Features Missouri

Extreme Weather Hard on Infrastructure

Fetus Yawning Reveals Brain Activity

First Peter

God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts

Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott

If two earth concerning anything, it will be done for them in heaven

It's All Connected

Micah to Step Down from T&I Chair

New & Interesting Stuff Nov. 20, 2012

Recovery Act Review

Second Peter

Skywalk Memorial Close to Fundraising Goal, Construction of New Design Anticipated

They conquer who believe they can

We are God's workmanship

What God has for us to do is who we are

Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will have

Why including women matters for the future of technology and society

New & Interesting Stuff April 5, 2012

April Featured Book: The Gospels

April Featured Category: Christianity

Creative Living for Today by Maxwell Maltz (227)

Good Friday & Easter Links

He stores up wisdom for the upright

Judges (226)

New and Interesting Stuff March 7, 2012

Notes on Collecting

The Velveteen Principles by Toni Raiten-D’Antonio (225)

New & Interesting Stuff Sept. 5, 2012

A good battle plan that you can act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

Elixir by Brian Fagan

In God's presences is fullness of joy

It is a Christian duty...for everyone to be as happy as he can

New & Interesting Stuff Aug. 22, 2012

Picture me with ground teeth stalking joy

September Featured Book

September Featured Category

New & Interesting Stuff Nov. 13, 2012

American Infrastructure: An Expense We Need to Pay

Book Review: Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett

Confidence is a helpful virus...it will infect everything you do in a positive way

EPA Introduces Water Bug to Kansas City (Not as Bad as it Sounds)

Even Scientists Unwittingly See Purpose in Nature

First American Audio Recording Recovered

God has not given us a spirit of fear

God has overcome the world

Infrastructure and the Elections: Links

James

Lessons from Sandy

-Infrastructure Weathers the Storm: American Infra Vs. Hurricane Sand

-Sandy Damages Enterprise

The Lord is faithful

Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones

Never despair. But if you do, work on.

New & Interesting Stuff Halloween 2012

News from My Alma Mater

Thanksgiving Links