Archive for September, 2009
my new contact card
Originally inspired to design a personal contact card by the awesomeness of @jruckman, I needed to add my Canadian cell # and decided to go for a complete refresh of the design. Fortunately, Vistaprint was allowing free business card orders and with the custom design fee of a few bucks, I got 250 cards shipped [...]
problems with “democracy”
TomDispatch continues to put out incredible posts on a regular basis. The most recent one on the state of “democracy” was particularly eye-opening. The United States has submitted to corporate interests to rebuild democracy as a “free-market” system, a free market that only benefits those with the $$. How so? Back in 1990, according to [...]
some interesting thoughts on Freud’s time in the US
Among many things I learned from Russel Jacoby’s recent article from the Chronicles of Higher Education on Freud’s 1909 visit to the United States: Freud only made one visit to the United States. I find that fact incredibly interesting after viewing The Century of the Self, an amazing BBC documentary series on the influence of [...]
there will be bison
I’ve finally finished editing all my photos from the road-trip this summer and will put up a series of posts on here to describe the adventure across North America. If you are thinking that might be boring, I’ll whet your appetite with this trailer, Update: via request from @aernst, for an approximate map of the [...]
even if Obama had godlike abilities, I don’t think he could succeed
In an awesome article from today’s Guardian entitled Obama the Impotent, Steven Hill details why President Obama is letting the world (and specifically Europe) down. Mr. Hill outlines a lot but mainly cites the President’s failure to move on much of anything. I would concur, maybe even go so far as to agree with this [...]
goat gives birth to human faun? I wouldn’t believe that without photos…
The Zimbabwe Guardian is reporting that a goat has given birth to a human faun. Quite a claim to lack photos, The creature had a human head, face, nose, shoulders and human-like skin that had very scanty furs. It had goat features from the “shoulders” to the legs. Its sagging stomach prevented curious villagers from determining whether [...]
paragraph of the day, via John Michael Greer
The fact that a life lived in material comfort can be unsatisfying does not mean that the comfort is what makes it unsatisfying. Life can be every bit as barren of meaning to someone who is starving to death in a burned-out basement, or scratching out a bare living from a few acres of mud [...]
mad man markham
The story of Mike ‘Mad Man’ Markham is incredibly strange. After calling into the Art Bell show a few times to talk about the time machine he built, he said he was stepping into it and then disappeared. Here’s one take on the story,
paragraph(s) of the day, courtesy of Douglas Rushkoff
The marketplace in which most commerce takes place today is not a pre-existing condition of the universe. It’s not nature. It’s a game, with very particular rules, set in motion by real people with real purposes. That’s why it’s so amazing to me that scientists, and people calling themselves scientists, would propose to study the [...]
I wish I had this when I got MRSA
I had MRSA on my leg earlier this year, back in May. It was gross. There is no other way to describe it. A massive hole opened up to let the pus drain and… I don’t want to get into any more details because it really is disgusting.However, I was fortunate. I’ve know people that [...]
