Friday 05/16/2008

• David Ocker: A Modest Proposal - Increase Gas Taxes Now

  In my dozen years in Pasadena I must have driven past the undistinguished intersection of Green and Chester Street a thousand times. But a couple weeks ago I walked past it for the first time. I took a bunch of ... more

• Jeff S. '81: Article: What To Do When Your Child is Gay

  An email from Exodus pointed me to an article by Mike Ensley in Charisma magazine.  Keep in mind that it is geared toward Christian parents. 

  The article tagline states: "Parents often dont know how to respond when a family ... more

• Michael Moore: Twitter Updates for 2008-05-15

  • I give a f*ck about an Oxford comma. #
  • SSH Passwords are BAD. SSH Keys are GOOD& and Makeem long! (4096 at least!) http://is.gd/gRe #

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• Loren Woo '93: The Accidental Proposal

  With the multitude of Web 2.0 and social networking tools available today, many companies are turning to viral marketing to help promote their brand awareness. One such campaign was the Orange Underground , a viral marketing effort put on by ... more

• Chet Haase: Corporate Survival Guide: Slide Ruler

  If corporate life is a war, then conferences are the critical skirmishes, turf wars that, one by one, capture the land parcels and postage-stamp lawns that eventually add up to a captured subdivision. These battles not only help lay ... more

• Cheryl Klein: Three Links That Made Me Laugh Hard This Week

  The World Beard and Mustache Championships Actual text from the website: "With his superstyled partial beard which NPR's Robert Siegel once dubbed a 'hair pretzel,' Willi Chevalier practically owns the partial beard freestyle category. Indeed, Willi has won this category ... more

• Amy Reynaldo '88: Friday, 5/16

  NYT 8:55
  NYS 5:14
  CHE tba
  Jonesin' tba
  LAT tba
  CS tba
  
  WSJ tba
  
  I don't think either of the Friday puzzles I've just done included the word ERST, but as this blog post mentions, it's certainly an enduring word ... more

• Nina Current '03: When old adages go wrong...

  Sure, two heads are better than one , if you’re collaborating on a project with another person. But what if you grew another head? I’m not sure that it rings true in that case…
  
  An apple a day will certainly ... more

• Lisa Musz: 'house of cards'

  your words are scribbled on a curled piece of paper- it's on your desk and i catch glimpses of my name on it. once you have a hyphen as it spills over the edge of the sheet: li-sa. it seems ... more

• KRLX 88.1 Free Radio Northfield: KRLX Muxtape Sharefest

  You like to listen to new music. You like to share new music with your friends. And thanks to the Internet, we now have streaming MP3 mixtapes.
  
  So?
  
  So, you should make a muxtape and share it with KRLX. Here’s ... more

• Glenn McDavid: A good birthday

  Yesterday, May 14, was my birthday, when I turned 30 (if you count in base 19). It was a good time--one of my best birthdays. I am very gratified by the good wishes I got from all of my family ... more

• Avery Palmer '00: Roses and Risotto

  A cool afternoon in a genteel part of town.

  

  

  

  Too bad they're about to secede from the Union.

  

  Restaurant Nora , the first certified organic restaurant in the country. Someone told me it was Bill Clinton's favorite; I don't ... more

• Christopher Tassava: Strange Day

  Two photos summarizing the day's strangeness.

  
  

  1. Some of the fourteen ducklings being raised by a calm mama duck in the enclosed courtyard of the church where Julia's preschool operates:

  
  

  
  

  2. The biggest, fastest vehicle on the road out back ... more

Thursday 05/15/2008

• Karen Mardahl '79: Reading Virtual Communities by Howard Rheingold

  Slow, but steady. Isnt that how the tortoise won the race? I made a note to myself to read Howard Rheingolds Virtual Communities years ago, and now I am actually doing so!

  The real motivator for reading it is ... more

• Shrinking Footprints: ENTS Capstone Symposium next Week

  Next week, senior concentrators in Environmental and Technology Studies (ENTS) will present their capstone projects. As always, the capstone projects this year vary greatly in topic, reflecting the rich diversity of academic disciplines with which the ENTS program is ... more

• KRLX 88.1 Free Radio Northfield: Battle of the Butlers

  This week on Heroes in a Half Hour, it's a Bad-ass Butler Battle! That's right, Jared and Nathan pit DC's Alfred Pennyworth against Marvel's Edwin Jarvis. Then, Jared's got a review of DC's Tiny Titans #1, and Nathan reviews Defenders ... more

• Wayne Soon: waynesoon

  
  

  WP organizing secretary Yaw Shin Leong revealed that he voted for MP Teo.

  Thinking broadly, it might appear to be a good strategy by Yaw to explain his decision. In fact, it might not be something altogether new. Mr. ... more

• River City Raven: rivercitybooks

  
  

  I think I need my eyes checked. Every time I look up a book winner is announced. And now they are starting to come up with more awards. It may never end. At least this time it’s for a ... more

• David Schraub: Sticky Slopes

  Blogging on California's ruling striking down bans on same-sex marriage, Eugene Volokh argues that the case proves true the fears by gay marriage opponents that the extension of legislative protections for gay couples acts as a "slippery slope" towards eventually ... more

• Jamie Foehl '99

  McKinney just installed a snack machine.
  You can pay with your fingerprint.
  That is too, too easy.
  I hate it.