February 2012
7 posts
“In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals — goals shared by the Founding Fathers. Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The arguments and rationalizations that have been trotted out in support of racial exclusion and...
January 2012
31 posts
But what do they do with their legs? →
“Julia Sweeney considered herself an enlightened, sex-is-no-big-deal kind of parent. But that was before an innocent question about tadpoles prompted The Conversation.”
This is hilarious.
“Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from analog to...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category, via Dan W (via new-aesthetic)
Sen. Paul stopped by TSA at airport, law... →
littletinyfish:
…Paul refused [a pat down], resisting on the grounds that it infringes on his rights and “private property.”
I wonder how well that statement would go over with the anti-choice rally to which he was heading when he was detained.
Get lost! The new art of travel for the 21st... →
“When travelling abroad, do not waste your days visiting stone monuments. Seek out local people and discover how they really live.”
I have been all about this for as long as I’ve been traveling. The best parts of my travels have all stemmed from people, not places. I love museums and monuments (obviously, I’m getting a degree focusing on museum studies), but I need and...
Mike, the Headless Chicken →
“He was a big fat chicken who didn’t know he didn’t have a head.”
BBC News: 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year →
This is fantastic.
December 2011
22 posts
Nicolas Henry-"The Playhouses of our grandparents" →
capucha:
“ Over the last five years, Nicolas Henry has created roughly 400 portraits in more than forty countries. For each portrait, a sort of makeshift stage set or temporary playhouse was constructed using the subject’s familiar possessions – a reflection of each person’s history, his imaginary world: a fish-cum-helicopter during a miraculous bowfishing trip in Vanuatu; a skyscraper fashioned...
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their...”
– Michael Pollan (via misswallflower)
America has a disordered relationship to food.
(via rubyvroom)
Winter Wonderland
Every Christmas Eve, my family has some friends over to eat delicious food, have good times, and sing carols. We’ve got a packet with a bunch of lyrics that was a printout from some radio station ages ago, and some of them are a little…interesting.
In Winter Wonderland, for example:
“In the meadow we can build a snowman / and pretend that he’s a circus clown / we’ll...
