Category: Misc
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Boston Vegan Association, Pamphlet
The Boston Vegan Association monthly meeting was this weekend at MyThai, in Brookline. Although I don’t get to as many of these meetings as I’d like (after commuting in to Boston all week the last thing I want to do most weekends is commute), I was happy to see lots of familiar faces and a…
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More Vegan London
I’ve spent a couple of weeks in London over the last month for work. It’s frankly a great city to be a vegan in, with lots of ethnic cuisine which is easily veganized (Thai, Indian, Ethiopian) as well as a number of health all-vegetarian or all-vegan spots. Perhaps the best central resource is the aptly-named…
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Stupid Browser Tricks
Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs, are a relatively new concept in which you basically create an application which is designed just to browse to a particular website. It gets its own icon, memory space, set of cookies, and the like, so you can treat it just like an application. The best SSB creator, at the…
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Vegan Night at the Pops (Betty’s, Natalie Merchant)
Well, it was a vegan night at the Pops for Jo and I anyway – maybe some day they will have an official night. Started out with dinner at Betty’s Wok and Noodle, followed by Natalie Merchant with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.
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Oprah, Kevin Rose, and the Vegan “Challenge”
So Oprah Winfrey’s joined the list of celebs taking the vegan challenge. From the PETA files: Inspired by the book Quantum Wellness, by Kathy Freston, Oprah’s going to be cutting all the meat, dairy, and eggs out of her diet in an effort to live a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle. According to Peta (the original quote’s…
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Garfield minus Garfield
Old news, I know, but I find Garfield Minus Garfield captivating. It’s sort of existentialist, nihilist, and postmodern all at the same time.
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Visualizing Information for Advocacy
Via a tweet by Beth Kanter I discovered a new booklet produced by the Tactical Technology Collective: Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design In their words: Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital…
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Creative Vigilantes
Great article in the Boston Globe from Christmas Eve Eve (aka lille juleaften) about the way intellectual property and copyright issues play out in other fields like standup comedy, magic, and haute cuisine: “Creative Vigilantes.” Comedy is not the only creative industry in which scholars are finding evidence that challenges assumptions held on Capitol Hill.…
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Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays, peace on earth, good will toward people (and animals). Lucy and Georgia
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Happy World Vegetarian Day!
(Thanks to Maynard Clark of the Boston Vegan Meetup group for some of the links and descriptions) World Vegetarian Day is observed annually on October 1. It is a day of celebration established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 “to promote the joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism” World Vegetarian Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Vegetarian_Day…
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Vegan Ireland, Part II – Kinsale (Thai Cottage)
After a few days in Kenmare, and having rounded the Berrea peninsula, we headed down to Kinsale. As you can see from the photos, Kinsale’s a harbor town, with a lively pub / restaurant scene. Like Bath, this was a place we could easily have stayed another day or two. (Maybe we should plan all…