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Month: February 2007
links for 2007-02-21
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Co-opting is what it sounds like. Cashing in your negative reputation is what in Nike’s is doing with its Converse brand.
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what Pasteur said, but perhaps more accessible for the kids today
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I didn’t realize it had been (almost) 13 years.
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“Why does right-wing extremism in our universities, as represented by such things as law professors calling on the Bush administration to commit murder, get so much less attention?”
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took a trip through a CT scanner today: had to look up what exactly happens in one.
vases
Not too bad an effort from my walk yesterday. I walked about 4 miles after dropping off a car for service downtown and had three cameras with me. This was from the cigarbox 4×5. A little underexposed, so the levels needed some adjusting to recapture the tone of those vases/pots. The camera seems to be a little slower than I suspected: that or the film’s reciprocity failure is more extreme that I factored in.
Also cropped out the excessive foreground.
real librarians don’t ban books
An Absence of Scrota — your guide to quality literature…:
I’ve decided that librarians who would decline to have a Newbery book in their libraries because they don’t like the word scrotum are probably not real librarians (whom I still love unconditionally). I think they’re rogue librarians who have gone over to the dark side.
Still, I’m glad that there’s finally a solid rule of thumb guide to what’s quality literature and what isn’t.
I’ve noticed this as well
[…]I’ve also noticed a real impact on my perception of the world. Walking around, camera in pocket, being open to the opportunity to take a picture has a striking effect on what one sees. An interesting form here, an odd pattern of rust there, a splash of colour, an unusual building or a surprising or funny sceneā¦.
Walked 4 miles from downtown after dropping off a vehicle for service and saw lots of stuff I have seen before but not seen, if you know what I mean.
tomorrow’s music — today!
My attention was caught by this comment:
Another day in the non-death of classical music.
and upon reading the post, I followed the link to learn about Salonen’s premiere of his new piece. I have the Salonen/Bronfman recording of the Rachmaninov 2nd and 3rd and have listened to it about a million times š
But, I thought to myself, what if when I go back to listen to this, it’s been taken down? Hmmm . . . .
Read on for the exact steps I used.
Financial Times poll: Should music companies drop DRM?
FT.com / Comment & analysis / Discussions and polls:
The sooner DRM is scrapped by major labels, the sooner we can present our long-established customer base a consistent offer, whether they visit our London stores, buy online at our mail-order website, or download MP3 from our digital store website. [comment left by Stephen, speaking on behalf of Rough Trade]
The poll results are interesting, if predictable:
links for 2007-02-18
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wha? shareholders, people who have invested money to capitalize a corporation, are not actually entitled to vote on how its money is spent?
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More like America’s prima donna.
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file under: useful stuff
annals of fermented food
Kombucha – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Kombucha is the Western name for a fermentation of sweetened tea using a Kombucha Colony usually consisting of Bacterium xylinum and yeast cultures.
I pick up a starter culture of this on Monday.
links for 2007-02-17
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“The problem with espousing hatred of gay people and darkly suggesting they “shouldn’t be in the world”? It creates problems for homophobes.” *boggle*