October 2008
17 posts
Larry Lessig on California's Proposition 8 →
Prop 8 is a travesty, and in my view illegal.
Girl Talk's Feed the Animals - Official Sample... →
Lists every sample used on the album. I haven’t been able to stop listening to Feed the Animals since I got it.
I’m 29 today. I have no fear of getting older, but it’s still weird to think about it.
John McCain, speaking from the 2000 presidential... →
I wonder if he realizes how far he has fallen from where he was eight years ago.
I’m heading to my home state of Colorado today, which I haven’t visited since 1995. I’m really excited to head back.
J.D. Drew walk-off hit during the ALCS game 5 →
Video of the game from the stands. This is why Fenway Park is such an amazing place — skip to 1:30 to see what I mean.
Maple Leaves :: A Walk Through Durham Township,... →
Beautiful photograph by Kathleen Connally.
The NY Times talks to racists about Barack Obama. →
Some of the quotes in the article are really sad and disturbing.
“He’s neither-nor,” said Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter who works at a factory north of Mobile, while standing in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store just north of here. “He’s other. It’s in the Bible. Come as one. Don’t create other breeds.”
Living in the Northeast, you tend to think that racism like this is dying, but...
McCain Tries to Tame Flames He Earlier Fanned →
After all the vitriolic commentary coming from McCain and Palin, this was honestly very nice to see.
“I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Play Your Part (Pt. 2) - Girl Talk
I can’t...
amnh - Portfolio by Joseph O. Holmes →
A remarkable series of images of silhouettes from the New York Museum of Natural History. I’d seen these before, but just stumbled upon them again.
Who needs state taxes? →
A sarcastic take on the Massachusetts proposition to remove the state income tax. I do not support the measure, as I do like having police patrols and my roads plowed when it snows.
What to do when the wrong entree arrives. →
Frank Bruni, restaurant critic for the New York Times, on what restaurants should do when the wrong entree is accidentally brought to you. I don’t like Bruni’s solution:
Alert the server, right when the wrong entrée arrives. That way, even if you decide you’re going to keep the entrée — which is one option, if it’s an entrée that suits you well enough and if you’re disinclined to...
