March 2011
[redacted]
February 2011
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Ok, in retrospect, they may actually have been...
OR EVEN BOYSENBERRIES.
OR POSSIBLY OLALLIEBERRIES.
therotund asked: I thought I was already following you. DAMMIT TUMBLR. Rectified now, at least. Hi!
Kinsee Morlan at San Diego City Beat: One man's... →
Miriello acts and looks more like a businessman than an artist. He’s a smooth-talking, hand-gesturing kind of guy—the boss at Miriello Grafico, his graphic-design and marketing firm, for more than 25 years.
Sitting in his sleek conference room with three black poster boards set up behind him—one’s blank, one says “MINIMAL” and the other says “REUSE, REPURPOSE”—Miriello says that most of...
Joe Tarr at Isthmus: End to collective bargaining... →
Should Gov. Scott Walker succeed in eliminating collective bargaining for public employees, it could cost Madison Metro $7 million in federal funding — 14% of its $50 million annual budget.
The federal government requires that “employee protections, commonly referred to as ‘protective arrangements’ … must be certified by the Department of Labor and in place,...
Susan Andrew at Mountain XPress: Seeking relief:... →
Residents who live near the contaminated former CTS facility on Mills Gap Road have waited for years for cleanup, and as the time draws closer for EPA’s review of the site for inclusion on the National Priorities List (which would place it among the most severely contaminated sites in the U.S.), residents have decided to wait no longer. A group of 16 individuals and families filed suit...
Sarah Mirk at Portland Mercury: Three New Reasons... →
The Columbia River Crossing Coalition is the group that provides a reliable counterpoint to criticisms levied at the big bridge.
In media ranging from the New York Times to the Oregonian and Portland Business Journal, the coalition, which registered as a corporation in Washington in 2008, is described as a “business-backed coalition.” But the group also receives money from ...
this ain't livin': Notes From the Urban/Rural... →
But satellite users have it good, compared to people who can only access Internet through dialup. Who remembers dialup? Yeah. The slowness of satellite starts to seem downright speedy to dealing with the molasses of a dialup connection. All those nifty features on your website that make it so pretty and cool? Yeah. They make people on dialup want to track you down and smash a pie in your face,...
I don't want to be all self-promotey or... →
onetinycorner:
meloukhia:
But you do know I’m available as a speaker, right?
I do indeed. If I had an event or shindig that required your services, I would be emailing you and preparing the bowl of only brown M&Ms like that.
Uh, actually, that clause in my rider has changed now. It’s only green M&Ms. And a tray of KitKat Darks.
I don't want to be all self-promotey or... →
But you do know I’m available as a speaker, right?
“If you do a lot of slipping and sliding, it tends to move a little. It’s a...”
– Emmy Rossum.
That’s how they do it on Showtime, folks!
Live and ongoing coverage of the Wisconsin union... →
Since the mainstream media can’t be arsed, alternative weeklies to the rescue!
Past medical testing on humans revealed →
bohemianarthouse:
“Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.
Much of this horrific...
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Recipe: Apple Dumplings
I keep typing this as ‘apply dumplings,’ which is equally apt, honestly.
You are gonna need some pie dough, some good baking apples (tart, crunchy, crisp), butter or appropriate vegan substitute, pie spices, and brown sugar. Preheat your oven to 250 F (176 C) and get out a baking sheet. No need to oil or anything.
What you are doing to do is divide that pie dough into...
Bob Doran at The Journal: Postcard Kings →
One Friday night in November as most Eurekans were easing into their weekends, two men sat in front of their respective computer screens preparing to do battle. They were not zombie-hunting online gamers, but postcard collectors, or deltiologists (del-ti-ol-o-gists), bidding against each other on eBay for rare images of Humboldt County.
In the living room of his 1906 classical revival...
Sarah Fenske at Riverfront Times: Stone County Dog... →
But it is interesting to note that some of the violations Baxendale was charged with fixing in March 2010 — yet never held accountable for — may have led to the conditions that the Humane Society reported eleven months later. For example, in the March 2010 report, the one high-level violation was a single item noting that “12 dogs [currently] in the house that need pens...
Sameh Naguib at Socialist Worker: Conversation... →
THE WESTERN and Egyptian media keep repeating that this was simply a youth revolution organized through Facebook and other social media. Can you give us a sense of the class nature of the revolution in those first few days?
YOUNG PEOPLE from different social classes, all with their own grievances against the regime, did play a leading role in igniting this revolution. But the role of the...
Porochista Khakpour at Guernica: Camel Ride, Los... →
We were only a few years into this: our arrival to America, a place I attempted to call home, even though I was warned it was all temporary. My first memories were my last memories of Iran: first, an old man sitting with me at a party with much dancing—a relative perhaps—talking and talking and suddenly stirring his tea with a finger; the next: false air raids in the night sky of Iran, empty...
Carrie Johnson at NPR: New Report: 'Higher Hate... →
A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center describes a big rise in hate groups across the country.
By its count, there are now more than 1,000 active extremist groups in the U.S. Experts say the largest increase comes from militias that consider the federal government their enemy.
Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the law center, has been studying hate groups for a long...
this ain't livin': The Long and Short of... →
All good stories come to an end and the same holds true of television. The fact that most shows in the United States falter, peter out, and then get canceled is a sign that our system is not working. There’s no reason every show shouldn’t go out on a strong, assertive note, instead of a whimper.
Having another one of those 'so pissed at...
“By spending government on both abortion and providing female contraceptives, PP...”
– I am moderating Feministe comments. And stabbing things. (Who wants to guess if the two are directly related?!)
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Oh Cara, I know this makes me the most unsupportive person in the whole world, but the sheer over-the-top ridiculousness of this comment makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
I mean, I...
Speaking of followers?
People don’t seem wildly enthused about most of the links I post. Should I stop, or do you follow the link and get soooo excited that you just forget to hit the like button?
Also, I just burned off my nose hair on the stove again. I need to stop cooking things that smell interesting. Or stop smelling them while they cook. I can’t decide.
Winnowing
I am once again following too many people who post too many cool things, and need to trim to keep my dashboard under control. It’s not you, it’s me. Really. I’ll check in on you old-fashioned style, I promise.
Secret Message Contained Within (Spoiler: It's...
imissedtumblr:
1) I have a tag on my DW: “secret message contained within”. I don’t know why.
2) I wrote a post about how David Cameron is a terrible Victorian and should probably take a history course or two. It is tagged, amongst other things, “secret message contained within”.
That post is very good and informative. You should probably go read it.
Martin Kaste at NPR: Web Wiretaps Raise Security,... →
The Threat Of Hacking
She says imagine the vulnerabilities that would be created if similar back doors were required on all e-mail services or social networks. It’s an argument that resonates in Washington, as evidence mounts that the government and American industry have been targets of persistent and effective hacking attacks from overseas.
And then there’s the problem of...
Ker Than at National Geographic: Amelia Earhart... →
Using Earhart’s genes, a new project aims to create a genetic profile that could be used to test recent claims that her bones have been discovered.
Right now, “anyone can go and find a turtle shell and be like ‘I found Amelia Earhart’s remains,’” said Justin Long of Burnaby, Canada, whose family is partially funding the DNA project. The Internet-marketing...
Eli Sanders at The Stranger: Cash Clowns →
The stations’ collective haul in 2010 from political ads: $47 million.
“It is not only a record, but the previous two biggest years were presidential years,” says KING 5 president and general manager Ray Heacox, who notes that this vault-busting bonanza took place despite it being an off-year election. Even the big ad-purchasing years of 2008 (Obama versus McCain, plus a...
Cures for the hiccups?
I have a vicious case of hiccups and can’t make them stop. Desperation will lead me to do pretty much anything, including ridiculous things, as long as it will bring my torment to an end. Anyone got suggestions?
Holly Otterbein at Philadelphia City Paper: The... →
ACT UP isn’t just another advocacy group: They are the A-Team of AIDS activism, a band of crack commandos always ready to parachute in, their rhetorical guns blazing. Fail to listen and suffer the consequences: They’ve been known to swarm the mayor’s home to demand housing for people with AIDS, take over the Capitol Rotunda to press Congress to lift a federal ban on...
this ain't livin': What Is It About Joss Whedon? →
There’s something else there, and I can’t quite figure out what it is. I don’t know why it is that I continue to get excited about his new projects even when I suspect they’re going to piss me off, why I watched his Glee episode and held out hope to the bitter end that he was somehow going to turn it around and take the episode somewhere really exciting, make it a metacommentary with the way he...
Ok, things are looking up in the garden
The sun is thawing things out and while some things are definitely, really, unilaterally dead, others appear to be perking up. Perhaps today is not the California Plant Massacre after all!
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Wait, 'pants' is a slang term for bad?!
There is some justice in this world.
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Let this be said, for the record:
Since people seem to enjoy twisting my words to use my work as a get out of trouble free card (and seem to think I don’t notice)…
…the first person who uses today’s post to try and weasel out of responsibility for ableist behaviour gets a dead cod in the mail. I’m sending it book rate, too, so it will be nice and putrid by the time it gets to you.
And yes, I am...
Sometimes I fantasise about 'accidentally'...
(as everyone on Twitter already knows)
It just snowed! For like two minutes! It was the coolest thing that has happened to me all year. Now the sun is back out, but hopefully it will go away again and bring me MORE SNOW. Which won’t stick. But, you know. SNOW. When you live somewhere where it does not really snow ever, this is a really exciting and momentous event that calls for running around in the yard gleefully squealing,...
I swear to Pete
The next Facebook-dependent thing someone sends to me is getting eaten by a grue.
Newsflash: Not everyone is on Facebook. So stop putting all your goddamn announcements, invitations, and Pete knows what else (because I sure as hell can’t see it) behind a fucking registration wall.
thecranium:
You will not upload, post or submit anything that is obscene or contains profanity or that may be hateful or offensive on racial, ethnic, sexual or any other grounds; is harmful, vulgar or distasteful; or is defamatory, libelous, or invades another person’s privacy...
I'm going through a plant list.
ailanthusaltissima:
I am starting to associate people with plants. Like if the scientific name sounds like it describes someone or fits someone. This is pretty OK but I am worried that the next step is going to be me assigning personality traits to these plants.
Grad school is a slow spiral into a complete disconnect from reality.
Yes, but which plant am I?!
