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Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising
(via ze frank) – “pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising” (as described on b3ta) video shot with a high-speed camera from a fast-moving train in Bath. Every 7 seconds of video you watch represents 1 second of actuality. more info.
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Myq Kaplan on Late Late Show
Myq Kaplan, who you may remember as the vegan from the most recent series of Last Comic Standing, was on the Late Late Show. I especially like the bit about sets and subsets – what’s next, going out for rectangles or shapes?
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Oh, Buddha
Can’t miss a chance to post a LOLCat.
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Simpsons Intro by Banksy
(via BoingBoing) Banksy directed intro to the Simpsons. The good stuff comes in about 0:36 in, so don’t miss it. Wonder what 20th Century Fox thought of that one? Would have been a fun production meeting to be a fly-on-the-wall for.
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Human Ventriloquism
(via BizarroBlog) An excellent, short, funny video from Paul Zerdin who takes a volunteer from the audience and turns him into a human dummy:
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Whole Lotta War Pigs Love
(via Laughing Squid) comes this mashup of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” – masterfully mixed by Wax Audio.
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Well Rounded Radio
Just discovered this local music interview podcast to help folks discover new music. Very eclectic set of artists, genres, and other interviewees: everything from Amanda Palmer to Larry Lessig to Yoko K. (Ok, just realized the Amanda Palmer interview goes all the way back to 2008 – guess I haven’t been paying enough attention!). Subscribe…
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Nirvana BBC Sessions
(via Muzzle of Bees) Although we lived in Seattle from 1992 to 1999, I have to admit I came to appreciate Nirvana late. I had no real sense of the grunge scene or the importance of SubPop other than what you might get from a careful watching of Singles. Since then, though, I’ve really come…
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Animated Painting: Avett Brothers
(via ze frank) Beautiful video for the Avett Brothers’ song “Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promises” – an animation by Jason Mitcham. There’s also a “making of” video, but watch the real one first.
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Maoz More than Ever!
Ok, I apologize for the groaner pun. But I’m very happy to learn (via QuarryGirl) that Maoz is expanding in New York, including a new storefront in Times Square. Maoz has been expanding throughout North America, with stores currently in Philadelphia (2), New York (5!), New Jersey (1 now, a 2nd soon), San Francisco (1),…
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Wisco
Via Muzzle of Bees comes Wisco: A Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth album by Wisconsin based artists. You can download individual tracks or the whole thing, and if you enjoy it, make a donation: This is our gift to you, please enjoy it and share it with your friends. We would love for you to show…
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New Vegan-Friendly Businesses: Sudo Shoes, True Bistro
Looking forward to the opening of two new businesses in the Boston area catering to vegans: Sudo Shoes, due to open this summer this month in Porter Square, and True Bistro, a vegan restaurant coming to Teele Square.
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Testing cross-posting with 3.0
As some of you may know, I developed and maintain a WordPress plugin called WPBook. I’m trying a clean install of that plugin on a blog upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (which came out Friday) to make sure it works.
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The New Four Food Groups
(via Veggie Going Vegan) I was happy to find “The New Four Food Groups” from the PCRM: It’s also available on their site as a full color handout and poster.
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You Call This Targeted?
I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: I’m reading feeds in a site-specific browser using Fluid, which means in essence I’m reading them in a browser using Google Reader. The ads are clearly powered by…
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New Web Resources
Just a quick pointer to two new recently updated web resources useful for vegans and people who’d like to be vegan. The first is brought to you by the good doctors at Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PMRC). It’s a 21 day “kickstart” program starting January 1st, 2010. The Kickstart program includes daily messages, breakfast,…
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Carnism as an ideology
Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal…
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Vegans – Join Blog Action Day
The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change. It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the link between animal-based agriculture and climate change. Related links: Livestock’s Long Shadow – the UN report from the Food and Agriculture Organization which concluded that “livestock are…