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This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred…
Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective? You’ve almost…
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though…
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
Doesn’t anyone at Fox News know how to use the Urban Dictionary?
Jo forwarded this to me a while back but I never got around to blogging it: Health Versus Pork: Congress Debates the Food Bill. It originally appeared in…
DrupalCon, the semi-annual (twice a year) conference of Drupal developers, is coming up next week in Washington DC. Filling out my profile, I was delighted to see these…
Got this today via email: Greetings. advantage “true toys” consequently not protected Sincerely, Cameron Bunch. If you reformat it ever so slightly it’s a near-haiku (5-10-6, or 5-10-7…
(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a…
(Via Vegan.com) Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet. I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so…
(Via Veggie Going Vegan via Veggie Chic) Very happy to see this great set of resources from the Mayo Clinic – Vegetarian Diet: How to Get the Best…
Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the…
One of my favorite songs from what I think of as “first-period” U2 (the era before Unforgettable Fire) has always been “New Year’s Day,” with its juxtaposition of…
Just had yet another laugh out loud moment reading Criggo and realized I’ve never posted about it. Criggo is basically Jay Leno’s Headlines routine from Monday nights as…
OK, so the election’s over and all, but I just got a new iPhone and wanted to play with ringtones. So I took Tana Sokolow’s remix — which…
(From The Satirical Political Report via boing boing) A version of Adam Sandler’s Hannukah song reworked with new lyrics by Don Davis, as performed by Louie Aronowitz: Put…
Just for fun, here’s a wordle of my dissertation, on (nearly) the 10th anniversary of finishing it: Generated by Wordle. Technically not quite based on the final version,…
Just finished reading The Transparent Society, David Brin’s 1998 rumination on the question of “Will Technology Force Us to Chose Between Privacy and Freedom.” It’s a really thoughtful…
Just in time for the holidays – I was very happy to see this in the Mercy For Animals e-newsletter: MFA’s “How Much Cruelty Can You Swallow?” Ad…
While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy…