randomWalks

A beginner’s guide to malt liquor, mostly for Linus' amusement. thanks to babygrrl, who’s also down for the cause.

astro(b)logy is sorting weblogs according to their creators' sun signs. I’m personally more interested in the sign of the site. randomWalks is a Sagittarius – keywords: versatile, sincere, searching, broad-minded, outspoken, superficial, jumps between subjects, irresponsible, lucky. thanks, considered harmful.

You can shuffle a deck of cards into oblivion in only 5 or 6 shuffles, but only if you are skilled with the riffle and split the deck into unequal portions. The average shuffler will require seven riffles, while the overhand shuffle is nearly ineffective in randomizing the order of a deck.

bonus links
the perfect shuffle
becoming an invisible illuminatus: phase one, the poker phase – i’m not making this up
poker variants
bullshit + poker =
7 card stud variations
poker FAQ
open directory: poker

As the okayplayer tour passes through, the Washington Post peeks behind the scenes at okayplayer.com

Using CSS as a Diagnostic Tool – brilliant stuff for HTML coders like me.

The latest broken treaty: 147 people were arrested Saturday protesting Denver’s first Columbus Day parade since 1991. “The Italian-American community, which organized the event, has broken an agreement with Hispanic and Native American groups to call it an ‘Italian Pride’ day, using not references to Columbus. Italian-American leaders back their decision to break the agreement saying it violates their rights to free speech.” – from NPR’s summary of this All Things Considered (realaudio) story. The guy who signed the agreement comes out and says he never intended to honor it. My jaw just fell on the floor when I heard this. bonus links why AIM opposes columbus day and columbus day parades the original american hero – the real history of columbus columbus and the imperial ethic – the facts american indian movement (AIM) the state of native america – recommended by beXn creativity and resistance: maroon cultures in the americas indigenous sovereignty nativeweb news digest open directory: indigenous people

Two of Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons:

• i am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove -- "Babies always look good when they dance. They have something that is very hard to get back once it is lost and it is always lost."
• the first job i ever had that wasn't baby-sitting -- "Drunk people in the woods at night are upredictable. I hid in my sleeping bag on top of the bus, listening to them power-scream."

Did you know, it's a lot of white people in town that will mistreat you, and don't mean it. Did you know?

Uh-uh ... "and don't mean it," ... why?

Yeah. They have to do it -- to stay white.

Why Freegan

- An Attack on Consumption -
- In Defense of Donuts -

We’re having a party and everybody’s invited.

originally posted by mw

It's like you have peanut butter and jelly. I mean, we find that weird. Oh, we would never have peanut butter and jelly together. I would not do that to my taste buds.

• Changing Face of America: Whole Foods Market -- profile of the relatively progressive grocery chain
• Changing Face of America: Asian American Activism in New York
• National Underground Railroad exhibit opens in Cleveland
• police harass Polish immigrants in Chicago
• talk with director and editor of PBS non-violence documentary A Force More Powerful
• how plants moved to land 500,000,000 years ago
• ancient city drowned in Noah's flood?
• CA whites didn't mean for their kids to be tried as adults -- activism: schoolsnotjails.com
• Uluru: Australia's natural wonder -- you may have heard it called Ayers Rock
• american heritage pronunciation editor discusses ... what else?
• NPR satire: anecdotes in debates
• Puerto Rican appeals for voting rights
• coincidence
• NPR100: Django
• Brazilian dance rhythms in dot-matrix printer?

The Guy I Almost Was is a truly excellent panel-per-page online comic. I must insist you check it out. thanks, fuzzybelly.

Who let the dogs out? (NPR audio)

Printable Punk Rock Girl Paper Doll, from the Dead Milkmen site.

That these apple trees won't be cut down to make way for streets with ''apple'' or ''orchard'' in their names is what counts to many Leominster residents.

Steve Jobs' resume

I don't think OSX is Sgt. Pepper. More like the Phantom Menace (technically amazing and very pretty, but will it have a plot, or just suck?).

I'm not a security risk. I'm not being disruptive.

More NPR… (realaudio player required)

• NPR100: Tito Puente's Oye Como Va
• conflicted Bob Mondello tries to pan Dogme Dancer in the Dark
• Chicago Ping Pong 2000 -- 300 tables indoors and outdoors across the city
• Guillermo Gomez-Pena on an American marriage and transnational love
• less popular US Presidential candidates
• NPR100: Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze
• uncovering discriminatory hiring practices
• American Bar Association urges pro-bono work for immigrants

For the month of October, you can do the New York Times Crossword Puzzle online for free. How lame is it that they charge for this in the first place?

craigslist serves the Washington DC area now with jobs, housing, classifieds, and community events mailing lists. Lets hope it somehow lives up to the legendary original San Francisco iteration.

On an entirely different note, this skating/graffiti game is unlike anything seen before. I can’t wait to play it.

The next Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? looks like it will be pretty great – the cast is incredible featuring Holly Hunter, John Turturro, George Clooney, John Goodman, Michael Badalucco and I’m sure other great people whose names I don’t recognize.

Listen to Ralph Nader’s speech from Sunday’s super rally in Boston.

Howard Zinn Online – I still haven’t got around to reading A People’s History of the United States, which must be supplemented by Ronald Takaki’s Strangers From a Different Shore – get your copy from the Asian American Writers' Workshop – because Zinn inexcusably ignores the history of Asians in America as I understand it.