randomWalks

Tips on using garlic from the Washington Post, including 5 recipes (2 vegetarian).

Why do so many organic foods and cruelty-free products come from Petaluma, CA?

A SETI scientist interviewed on All Things Considered expects to hear a signal within the next dozen years using a new array of backyard satellite dishes. (Get RealPlayer to hear the story.) If you’re not already donating your spare processor cycles, why not join the SETI@home project?

Suddenly, the cloth vs. disposable debate is relevant to my life. Who would have thunk?

The Green Boffin is a political weblog and Web directory I like very much.

'Yeah. Girls like to play with it. I like them to play with it.' The third nipple more than the first two? 'Nah,' he says; less an answer than a refusal to answer. He doesn't want to talk about this any more. He looks away. 'It was just something fucked up to say.'

The boring truth is that we already have the tools to save many more than a million kids a year -- all without irrevocably changing the genetic makeup of food staples. What we lack is the political will to mobilize those resources. That was the clear message that emerged last month from the Group of Eight summit in Okinawa. One after another, the largest industrial nations shot down concrete proposals aimed at reducing poverty in the developing world.

This morning two women scaled a hotel in downtown Los Angeles and unfurled the new United Corporations of America flag in anticipation of d2kla.

NASA has produced some stunning images of urban growth and of the biosphere.

The Village Voice is doing a great job covering the RNC protests (isn’t it a little odd that these stories aren’t all over the place?) and to top it off their new design features snazzy dHTML navigation.

I’m fascinated by this mirror made of 830 little pieces of shiny wood, 830 servo motors, a camera, a few spotlights, and a Macintosh 8600 AV with ten serial ports.

If you come across any stolen music while sojourning in cyberspace, be sure to give it back!

Bratta.com is a great resource for dHTML beginners like me. The free scripts are bulletproof in NS 4 thru IE 5, and I’m learning a lot from this article on 5th generation browsers and the Document Object Model.

If I had a cell phone that sent email, I’d try out the Robot Project.

American Routes is a great weekly radio show focusing on “the important and soulful territory” of American music – starting with jazz, blues, rock, and folk and expanding into klezmer, tejano, zydeco, swing and more. Plus, their Web site has neato pictures like the one above.

It takes you to another time, and to a frightening, alien land, windswept and gray, dying in quiet obedience to insane decrees of insane leaders. Its authors took the time and space to tell their tale in its every moment, often devoting many pages to scenes that wouldn't last three panels in a monthly American superhero comic book. We come to know the players, large and small, as we meet them, as they reveal themselves to us. Koike and Kojima tell their story masterfully and artfully, portraying a man, a boy, and a country on their journey into Hell.

The guy behind Gengoid.com has a good hip hop station at live365.com.

Dru Jay of misnomer and the monkeyfist collective took some photos at the demonstrations in Philly last week.

One day my house will be this cool. The Icepick house, however, is just scary. In the short term, this slashdot post sounds about right.

From the I-want-to-believe department: natural vision improvement.

The Evil Genius Hoaxes are lots of fun to contemplate.

Will people in the future have souls? Or will our souls pass into the machines?

It's easy to forget that the Web had that brief period where there were no commercial sites at all, and people did all kinds of strange and interesting and stupid stuff with that space for the hell of it out of weird obsessions or whatever. And they were, in a sense, necessary for laying the foundation for the commercial Web, because the Web wasn't some kind of unoccupied territory; it was fucking nonexistent until people evoked it into existence by creating what the business geeks call "content."

Single Square goes disco!

meta:matrix brings us “Deja Vu: the web as we remember it”, a Web-based emulator of early versions of Netscape, IE, Mosaic, Lynx, and other browsers. My site degrades gracefully… does yours?