The medal design for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic games has been unveiled and they’re looking very…Homer Simpson-friendly. There is a reason for the design, it seems. Something about an open piazza or town square. Center of Italian village life, etc. O-kay. You know how seriously Italians take design so I guess we should have […]
Nice discussion of philosophers and cookbooks over at Ethical Werewolf. I’ve chimed in on the comments there. It’s worth a look. Yes I mentioned Alton Brown. And Dewey. Try to contain your surprise.
Thousands of dead soldiers and Iraqi civilians, billions of dollars in war debt, no clear exit strategy and no clear indication that we have done anything but further destabilize the region…but let’s quibble over words, shall we?
“Cyber Monday” It has a name. That is so awesome. Of course we all know that employees surf the net when they are supposed to be working. They blog, they game, they IM, and they shop. In fact, they – or should I say, we – shop so much and with such brazen disregard for […]
Back in high school the overall conservativeness of a suburban Catholic college prep school was occasionally broken up in interesting ways. One of them was my junior year course in Social Justice, taught by Ms. Lenie Schaareman, who was also the moderator of the World Affairs Club. She was someone firm in her convictions, willing […]
One of the little things I enjoy about the new world of online shopping is the whole idea of targeted recommendations. I remember back in college checking out a service called Firefly that was supposed to be able to provide music and movie recs based on a profile of ratings you created. Never really got […]
So somewhere before dawn on Thursday I was roasting a turkey breast for dinner later that day. While I was waiting for the bird to be done I was reading Daily Kos, where a bit of a shouting match developed between a few commenters and diarists over the use of the term “trail of tearsâ€? […]
Went to Target tonight looking for an extra table for the big Thanksgiving gathering. The temperature was somewhere in the 40s at around 8 PM, with a steady cold drizzle coming down. As we approached the store we realized that in front of the shopping carts outside the entrance, there was a line of people […]
The political news this weekend is probably the firestorm around Democratic Congressman Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania calling for a redeployment of the troops in Iraq. Murtha may be from my home state, but he’s from the western side of the commonwealth, so I have only been vaguely aware of him up to now. Kagro X […]
I’ve been generally aware that Knight-Ridder, the company that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, has been cutting budgets and trying to squeeze more profit out of the papers. I’ve also been aware that some pretty heavy staff cuts are hitting both papers. But it wasn’t until I saw Daniel Rubin’s latest post at […]