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Cory Doctorow on art

30May08

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 [...]

In your interest

29May08

Glam 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 [...]

pants

29May08

Twitter needs to get creative

22May08

Nik 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… [...]

18May08

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

17May08

I 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. [...]

In the last few minutes of Mother’s Day in California…

12May08

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!

11May08

We 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, [...]

Puh-leassse.

08May08

I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on, she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were [...]

How to be an ally

06May08

Afrogeek 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.


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