July 2010
25 posts
WatchRobyn’s video for “Dancing On My Own”
man, she rules.
WatchKlaxons’ video for “Echoes”
They’re back!
Wiley “Take That”
“For me,” she says, “transformation is inevitable. That’s what I find really fascinating about life, and I have since I was really very small. And I’m always interested when people fantasize that they can deny that it exists, or that they can have any control over it, or that change might be a choice. Change is the only thing we have, it seems to me, and ...
WatchRintala Eggertsson’s Ark is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Small Spaces exhibition in London: 6,000 books turned into a small and delightful flat.
Sadly, the Ark is not a real apartment, but a structure for exhibition. That’s really too bad, because I just want to live surrounded by 6,000 books, and then spend my days reading the 120,000 volumes on my iPad.
If you...
June 2010
25 posts
FDA Guidance: Non-Medical Antibiotic Use in... →
The FDA looks like it’s finally getting ready to move on antibiotics in animal agriculture.
(via The Wall Street Journal)
Obama’s war on Israel →
“Obama claims he’s launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim, too, does not stand up to scrutiny.”
Perhaps I’m ignorant to this whole issue, but if Obama wants to promote peace shouldn’t he be discussing ways to support the process with the Prime Minister of Israel without undermining their security?
(via Sherry...
U.S. Discovers Vast Riches of Minerals in... →
Is this good or bad or both?
“The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so...
day #52 of the Gulf oil spill.
Gay? Whatever, Dude →
“For the first time, the percentage of Americans who perceive “gay and lesbian relations” as morally acceptable has crossed the 50 percent mark.”
(via The New York Times)
