Everyone should know the proper
Everyone should know the proper way to slice and chop. Chopping onions is its own reward.
Everyone should know the proper way to slice and chop. Chopping onions is its own reward.
Minidisc resources: minidisc.org and t-station.net.
12th Annual Who Reads What? Celebrity Reading List. thanks, bird on a wire.
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/85682/2023/8f9ffdfdf8.jpg" height=“250” width"162” border=“0” align=“right” hspace=“30” />Monkeyfist, a most excellent weblog on progressive politics, has set up a16.DC, a most excellent weblog on the upcoming April 16th protests in DC intended to focus global attention on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the spirit of Seattle. The Washington Post recently had a cover story looking at how both demonstrators and DC police are preparing for the event.
Put simply, so long as our society is one in which certain folks -- say, white, heterosexual men -- are disproportionately found in prominent decision-making positions, and certain other folks -- say people of color, women of all colors, and gays and lesbians -- are disproportionately found in subordinate positions, it will be seen by many as quite obvious that those straight white guys must be smarter, or harder working than the rest, and thus, "deserve" their position, while those without power must likewise "deserve" their subjugation thanks to one or another genetic, cultural or moral flaw. This is how the myth of meritocracy works with regard to class, and it works just as well with race, gender, or sexual orientation: inculcating the mindset that the "winners" won because the "losers" are, well, losers.Remember the President's Advisory Commission on Race? According to Tim Wise, we'll never see their report because they intended to focus on "white racial privilege". What were they thinking?
Want to know what really happened last year? Note: though referred to as news, the stories showcased in Project Censored’s top 25 underreported news stories of 1999 may actually be true.
Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, has been blowing perfect smoke rings. Stromboli on-line has more photos and video footage.
A Tourist In My Hometown, Once Again, in which Susan Kitchens and a digital camera achieve beginner’s mind and then use Bryce.
Speaking of unannounced products, if this Palm-based Sony minidisc player is for real, the digital camera is going to have to wait. One thing that won’t wait however is Kieslowski’s Decalogue on videotape or DVD—the company releasing them in the United States only has the rights for one year.
Is there room for another mac rumors site? To be honest, I’ve always wanted to start one myself. In my fantasies, insiders send me blurry jpegs of unannounced Apple hardware and puzzling fragments of overheard conversations at Cupertino pizza joints; I’m guessing that chaosmint shares my perversion. What I find odd is that macrumors is using php and claims to have trained squirrels managing the submission process, which I thought was exclusive to CmdrTaco’s perl-based slashcode…
"The living arrangement Americans now think of as normal is bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically, and spiritually. The physical setting itself — the cartoon landscape of car-clogged highways, strip malls, tract houses, franchise fry pits, parking lots, junked cities, and ravaged countryside — is not merely a symptom of our troubled culture but in many ways a primary cause of our troubles." -- James Kunstler in The Geography of Nowhere.The current issue of Adbusters suggests ways we can reclaim urban space with symbolic yet transformative gestures. I love the goals and methods of culture jamming—a well executed jam can function as a "wake-up stick", urging the unsuspecting to reflect on their assumptions & comfort levels.
“If we’re boring, and that’s if we’re boring, and I know you’ve come here today just to see for yourself that we’re not boring, then I guess we’re boring by design. We don’t like the word ‘boring,’ obviously. We prefer to say ‘relaxing.’ " Kenny King, program director at WJZW-FM, Smooth Jazz 105.9 in Washington D.C., is just doing his job.
Old Rag is probably the most famous, and nearly the most crowded, hike in Virginia. I can’t wait to do it myself.
Forbes online wants you to know that “Beginning with 250 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, this summer 7-Eleven will offer bill payment, payroll check cashing, money wiring and ticket purchasing for entertainment events and travel–all on the souped-up terminals. Next step (negotiations are under way): Get Web-order companies to send products to the 7-Eleven distribution network for pickup at a nearby store.” thanks, davenetics.
“That’s a mighty big rocket you’ve got there, Uncle Sam,” they said. “Is it as big as the mind? As free as imagination?"
Adbusters asks, “What will you do this fool’s day?"
In Virgina, you can tell it’s spring—forsythias are yellow as crayons, and trees bear a curious mix of deep red buds and young green leaves, but it’s the cherry blossoms that close the deal. Things are beginning to smell good too. In Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago things were beginning to smell, but not in quite the same way.
When you know as little about anime as I do, one person’s recommendations are as good as another’s. thanks, librarian.net.
The Free Store is back in business – choose a protocol and check out the wares.
Racism is about institutions, history, personal behavior, and privilege, among other things.
The politics involved are pretty overwhelming, but it’s not hard to appreciate the gravity of the pope’s visit to the Holy Land.
Today is the first day of Spring. That used to mean something.
Scott McCloud’s My Obsession with Chess is great autobiographical comic art. thanks, peterme.
I wish I didn’t know that some natural colors are made from bugs. On the other hand, I’m glad that Food Product Design magazine has a Web site.
