from here:
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to copy than this year; there’s not going to be a day in which it’s harder to copy than this day; from now on. Right? If copying gets harder, it’s because of a nuclear holocaust. There’s nothing else that’s [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Cory Doctorow on art
30May08In your interest
29May08Glam is an advertising company targetted at women, with a very pink web site. According to their site:
Glam Media today is the largest and most-targeted online reach for women in the U.S. Glam Media reaches more than 1 of 10 women in the coveted 18+ demographic across the country.
Check out their executive team.
Uh, seriously? One [...]
Twitter needs to get creative
22May08Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch has a post up about why Twitter is having a hard time scaling:
Twitter is unique in that it needs to parse a large number of messages and deliver them to multiple recipients, with each user having unique connection.
Hmm, that sounds like something familiar… some other site I know.. somethi… [...]
bzzt.
I think I want to do something, but I am not doing it, so obviously that’s not…
gonna go play ukelele. kbye.
How to really make (vegan) pizza
17May08I just got finished cleaning up most of the mess from a wonderful night. I threw a dual birthday party for my friends Lauren and Grant. Here are oldish pictures of their beautiful faces:
We had homemade vegan pizza. It was the best vegan pizza I’ve ever had. Here’s the secret:
Screw the cheese.
Seriously. [...]
There is a Mother’s Day-inspired post with some great art over on Diary of an Anxioux Black Woman. This is my favorite:
Don’t buy Stemlit cherries!
11May08We all talk about buying local and organic and yada, yada, yada, but here’s a chance to vote with your dollars for good working conditions:
Don’t by Stemlit branch cherries. They treat their farmers like crap.
I had an idea recently for a wikipedia-like database of information about how good different foods and food companies are, health-wise, [...]
How to be an ally
06May08Afrogeek has a post up called An open letter to my white friends, which links to a video of Father Michael Pfleger, a Chicago priest speaking out about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Required reading/viewing for anyone who wants to know how to be a better ally to people who are discriminated against.
