BIGWORDS.com - I think they're
BIGWORDS.com - I think they’re selling something, but just go read their online comic “Bee”. It’s good stuff.
BIGWORDS.com - I think they’re selling something, but just go read their online comic “Bee”. It’s good stuff.
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Until recently, I’d never been able to keep a plant alive. When my wife and I moved in to our apartment this summer we picked a couple of plants from a nursery and decided to have a go. Though my dream (Every Room A Garden) is still far from reality, one of the plants we chose, a Coleus, turns out to be so easy not only to grow but to clone that we’ve got 4 baby plants potted and 3 clippings rooting in tap water, waiting for a home. Anyway, the twist: Coleus turns out to be psychoactive.
How to Use an 18% Gray Card for better photography.
Recently, the McKinsey corporation said: "American food giants recognise that Indian agro-business has lots of room to grow, especially in food processing. India processes a minuscule 1 per cent of the food it grows compared with 70 per cent for the U.S...".Vandana Shiva lectures on globalization and poverty.
It is not that we Indians eat our food raw. Global consultants fail to see the 99 per cent food processing done by women at household level, or by the small cottage industry because it is not controlled by global agribusiness.
S11 primary sources:
S11 organizing site
World Economic Forum
S11 photos from indymedia
“If you care about people, you don’t hit ‘em with your batons,” says an S11 protestor to police in this realvideo clip.
Great audio on this realvideo clip – “Nonviolence!"
S11 secondary sources:
protestors win first round
If you loved The Matrix, you’ll hate Matrix Wazzup and Matrix Farting (c’mon, you know you want to click it.)
“Here’s a video of a Ferrari test driver blowing the engine on a $275,000.00 car.” It’s at the very end. Yikes!
I’m actually looking forward to being liberated by childbirth. While my fellow expectant mothers anticipate losing mobility and independence, I can’t wait to be off bed rest and carry my baby and his hundreds of accoutrements through the house and out into the world. I’ll be free!Sidelines is a network of support groups across the country for women and their families experiencing complicated pregnancies. It has lots of information on bedrest, including this article about a silver lining.
How I wish I’d had a digital camera in nyc.
George W. Bush just started campaigning under the banner of a new slogan, "Real Plans for Real People," the WP notes. Today's Papers can't help but notice the similarity to the Beef Council's old slogan, "Real Food for Real People." If the new Bush catchphrase doesn't work out, TP has a recommendation for another meat-inspired one: "Bush: The Other White Candidate."Usually when Scott Shuger's away, Slate's today's papers is a bit of a disappointment, but Chris Suellentrop penned a fun edition on Saturday titled United Nations College Fund. The most interesting story mentioned is the Washington Post's Calif. to Pay College Tuition for Neediest about a plan to send anyone in CA with at least a B average who belongs to a family of four earning $64,000 or less to college on a full scholarship, a plan I like very much. Apparently, California -- the most populous state -- is able to do this because of a $12 billion budget surplus.
The “Big Brother” houseguests are walking out together on Wednesday’s live episode – a decision reached by consensus Saturday morning. At this moment, the guests are announcing their individual intentions to “voluntarily exit” to the CBS crew as we watch chickens peck the ground outside. Salon shares the details of the real “Big Brother” story.
Why didn’t anyone tell me how stunning Apple’s new monitor is?
Of course, if “you don’t find CD cover art essential to owning an album,” consider subverting the corporate economy with a real buycott that bypasses the RIAA and supports the actual artists.
Whatever happened to album art (which has to be seen at 12"x12" to be appreciated properly)? Do hip hop records use the space well? What’s the best art ever included in a CD jewel case?
$129 for an I-Jam walkman that lets me listen to mp3s on a CD-R I burn at home(of which I already have six) or a player that accepts CompactFlash cards (which I already use in my digital camera)! These are two tempting machines. Whenever I discover my lifestyle doesn’t have room for wearing headphones and a portable, I know it’s time to reevaluate. My minidisc has served me well, but unfortunately transfering mp3s onto the discs is an analog process. I love it, but I doubt I’ll make that mistake again.
9:00 Bored Diner NewsI recently stumbled across TV Go Home -- source of the above listing -- and wanted to share it with you. Yes, you, and you alone. Everybody else thinks I'm talking to them but I'm not. I'm talking to you.
Read by a man idly picking wax from a restaurant table candle while his fiancee stares at her napkin.
This annotated guide to Dennis Miller’s cultural and historical references just might be enough to get me watching football.
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One day I hope to learn how to drive.
New Lynda Barry comic at Salon: cicadas and suicide.
Salty, boiled soybeans-in-the-pod were a regular treat when I lived in New York, but I haven’t had much luck finding them here in Virginia. Now, thanks to the Post, I know how to grow my own edamame. Now if only I had some land… and it were Spring.
Also read about Thai basil, ugly tomatoes, and the July 4th Southeast Asian marketplace and festival at Wat Lao Buddhavong Sala, a nearby Lao Buddhist temple, all from the Post’s Gourmet Gardener.
How to close your Amazon.com account.
Why to close your Amazon.com account:
This is how I think about the way in which space seems to appear out of nothingness.
Does anyone still eat Loma Linda canned vegetarian products? Check out the remarkably unappetizing serving suggestion on the bean and peanut Sandwich Spread label. I’m pretty sure I ate their veggie hot dogs when I was young. Much tastier than today’s Tofu Pups or Smart Dogs, these faux franks were full of flavor and came in a can. Our supermarket has a little zone devoted to this stuff at the back of one aisle, but I don’t think those cans have been touched in ages – the labels have got that “years and years of direct fluorescent light” look, and the one can I grabbed was covered in dust.