the art of writing is discovering what you believe
I’ll say it again: landfill mining is the career of the future. It’s like we’ve got a civilization’s worth of LEGO bricks in a pile but can’t be arsed to sort them into their proper bins.
I’ll say it again: landfill mining is the career of the future. It’s like we’ve got a civilization’s worth of LEGO bricks in a pile but can’t be arsed to sort them into their proper bins. [From ReMade: Recycling for Retail]
As an alumnus of the University of Florida and the Alligator, I was
disappointed to learn that $40,000 of student activity fees would be going
to pay former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to speak at UF. What
on earth could he have to share with students? What valuable insights
will he offer, given how little he remembers of his own tenure?
Why not have Britney Spears offer parenting tips? Or VP Cheney hold
forth on gun safety?
$40,000. That’s almost 6,000 hours of minimum wage labor. I think there
are better uses for those funds.
My alma mater will see no contributions to their various campaigns if this is how they spend it.
Amount former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will receive to speak at the University of Florida later this month. It will be Gonzales’s first speaking appearance since his departure from the Bush administration.
[From $40,000:]
There’s a “don’t tase me, bro!” moment in there, especially for someone who doesn’t think waterboarding is torture.
Continue reading “this means they’ll not see any funds from me”
“You ran on this for quite a while, even though it hurt? Is it possible that you have a very high pain threshold?”
High pain threshold indeed . . . .
“You ran on this for quite a while, even though it hurt? Is it possible that you have a very high pain threshold?”
“Sure, why?”
“Because you’ve broken your leg.”
The average UK price of unleaded petrol passes £1 per litre for the first time, an industry research group says.
…UK£ 1 = 2.0855 U.S. dollars 1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons I make that about US$7.89/gallon.
Ouch.
The average UK price of unleaded petrol passes £1 per litre for the first time, an industry research group says. [From Average petrol cost at £1 a litre]
UK£ 1 = 2.0855 U.S. dollars
1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons
I make that about US$7.89/gallon.
An excellent image. It just goes on for days. And the fact that it was made with such supposedly “low tech” tools (pinhole and Polaroid) makes it even better.
I may be off a bit on my numbers as the car I used is a daily driver but only has 72K miles on it in 9 years. The other thing I found interesting was the idea of a mini-website as an ad: you can interact with it, learn something, make a decision, all without leaving the site you meant to visit or dealing with pop-ups or other distractions.
So I found this ad at Horse’s Mouth.
Two things I found interesting about it. First, the information it relates and how easy it was to get to. I may be off a bit on my numbers as the car I used is a daily driver but only has 72K miles on it in 9 years.
The other thing I found interesting was the idea of a mini-website as an ad: you can interact with it, learn something, make a decision, all without leaving the site you meant to visit or dealing with pop-ups or other distractions. It doesn’t take you away from your destination.
The real wonder of the conservative enterprise has been its ability to transform the rudimendary desire of a handful of wealthy families to gut the government into a set of public policy ideas that would help to accomplish that goal while sounding appetizing enough to attract large numbers of voters. Rather ingeniously, the simple, easy-to-understand ideas they developed are largely consistent with each other and elegantly link to a broader story line that the conservative movement has effectively sold with remarkable sophistication.
Prof. Holbo reads Greg Anrig’s new book:
The real wonder of the conservative enterprise has been its ability to transform the rudimendary desire of a handful of wealthy families to gut the government into a set of public policy ideas that would help to accomplish that goal while sounding appetizing enough to attract large numbers of voters. Rather ingeniously, the simple, easy-to-understand ideas they developed are largely consistent with each other and elegantly link to a broader story line that the conservative movement has effectively sold with remarkable sophistication. That’s how the right won the war of ideas. It’s also the underlying reason why those ideas are failing. (p. 11) [From Overstate]
The phrase “voting against their own economic self-interest” comes ringing through.