Public Textures is a collection
Public Textures is a collection of photographs of scenes, surfaces, and objects featuring rich textures. (What else?) The photos are in the public domain so have at it.
Public Textures is a collection of photographs of scenes, surfaces, and objects featuring rich textures. (What else?) The photos are in the public domain so have at it.
She's reading a book on gender theory right now. She thinks it's fascinating and kind of funny.Washington Post: Wonder Woman's Powers -- Phil Jiminez, writer and illustrator of Wonder Woman for DC Comics, has given the Amazon heroine an inner life. But whence came that golden lasso of truth? Believe it or not, the head (belonging to psychologist William Marston) from which sprang forth a fully-formed Wonder Woman also conceived of the first polygraph.
Ghost World the movie website (via linkmachineego, which covers comics and sites that cover comics lots better than we do).
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I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger, but I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, and the shame is ours, not theirs, and we should pay for it.About.com: Mark Twain's Reparations for Slavery
Inmate rape has such an established place in the mythology of prison that references to confinement often call forth jokes about sexual assault. But while rape is accepted as a fact of prison life, the subject has received little serious attention and legal remedies are rare. Few prison rapists are ever prosecuted, and most prisons provide little counseling or medical attention for rape victims, or help in preventing such attacks.New York Times: Little Sympathy -- I don't know what this does for recidivism, but it doesn't sound like rehabilitation to me. What's a prison activist to do?
If Italo Calvino had a website, it would be The Invisible Library, “a collection of books that only appear in other books.”
Cincinnati Riots:
For most of us, it would be an easy choice. Of course you would learn to communicate with your child. But not if it meant you couldn't have food on your table.IHT: For Asian Immigrants in U.S., a Wall of Words Separates Generations
Hey neat, we’re on top of the google results for “links open windows”! I wonder what other searches put randomWalks on top? (If you find any, pls [discuss] – posting works, though the comment count is gone.)
All of us who are not racists -- liberals and conservatives alike -- have an instinctive tic against explicit racial classifications, which is understandable given our nation's history of racial injustice. But if we really want a more just society, we must be prepared to re-examine this instinct with an important distinction in mind: we must distinguish between policies whose premises deny equal citizenship and those whose premises affirm it.New York Times: Race and the Uses of Law, By Ronald Dworkin
I love those books.
If you want to join this retrieval of democracy on the air, the Pacifica Campaign is at 51 MacDougal Street, Box No. 80, New York, NY 10012. The Web site is www.pacificacampaign.org, and the phone number for information about actions being planned is 1-800-797-6229. It also takes messages.The Village Voice: Can WBAI Be Saved? by Nat Hentoff
The menorah has no place or role in the Christian religion, yet the cartoonist uses this core symbol of Judaism and makes it disappear into a cross with the words, "It is finished." It is as if Johnny Hart is telling his audience that Christianity now supersedes Judaism as the "true" faith.See the cartoon on a Jewish Defense League web page if you haven't seen the Sunday funnies yet. (The JDL is not to be confused with the Anti-Defamation League, who issued the press release quoted above.) Time.com is carrying a bit of background on B.C. creator Johnny Hart's proselytizing.
I almost forgot about the filepile.
The Bradford pear, found throughout the Washington area, blooms each year at the beginning of Spring for two weeks ending in a dramatic flurry of petals. It’s really a beautiful tree, but the bad news is that after about two decades the tree tends to fall apart. That gives me about five years to find a new parking space.
Project Censored has announced the top 25 censored media stories of 2000. As always, the list is a terrifying glimpse into the nature of power and “what really goes on”. My favorite is the exemplarily jaw-dropping “Gerber Uses the WTO to Suppress Laws that Promote Breastfeeding”.
The women were pretty and flirtatious, the men were lively and friendly, the Victoria Bitter was cold and delicious, the stars in the southern sky were simply amazing, and I was having a lot of fun - until I made the mistake of trying to climb Ayers Rock on acid.Tom Robbins answers reader email at the Guardian's Books Talk. See this and other fine links at wood s lot.
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As for Finnegans Wake, it's on the nightstand by my bed. I've been reading it nightly for 14 years. I'm now on page 39.
We can certainly rest easier at night knowing the Democrats are out there fighting for us.
The “WAMU in your Ward” series on WAMU’s DC Politics Hour ought to be a fascinating look at the character of Washington D.C.’s neighborhoods. Along with the poop on Ward 1, listen this friday (scroll down) for an hour on the Peace Corps' 40th birthday. You might just want to listen to WAMU right now, especially if you like your NPR with a little bit of bluegrass. In any case, it’s a good time to look at the District’s Wards because the city government is about to redraw the boundaries.
"I don't know how long people can do this work. Nobody we know of is doing it to the extent we are, so it's hard to know how long we will last." Why does she keep doing it? "Because something sacred occurs when people in such pain begin to tell you how they feel.""Yes, it's him." Beverly Jones counsels survivors as they identify bodies at the DC morgue. The program is the only one of its kind in the nation.
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry deserves a better post than it’s getting here. It also deserves a better site than it’s got there, but it’s definitely worth your time. Be sure to “Browse collection by: ” – there’s some great stuff in there!
I’ve been meaning to collect links to various subway maps (they serve as great studies in design) but Jason Kottke beat me to it. Always the smartie, he’s got his readers working for him (and for me too, I guess).
If you think that the next big crackdown on political protest is going to take place when 5,000 police officers clash with activists outside the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City next month, you are mistaken. It turns out that the most effective form of crowd control isn't pepper spray, water cannons, tear gas or any of the other weapons being readied by Quebec police in anticipation of the arrival of 34 heads of state. The most cutting-edge form of crowd control is controlling the crowds before they converge. It happens every time we read another story about how Quebec will be surrounded by a three-metre-high fence. Or about how there's nowhere to sleep in the city except the prisons, which have been helpfully cleared out. Protesting, rather than being a healthy part of democracy, seems like an extreme and dangerous sport, suitable only for hard-core activists, with bizarre accessories and doctoral degrees in rock climbing.A-Infos: Quebec City Keeping Us Out Before We Get There
