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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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Like Hope, But Different
What if will.i.am were a McCain fan rather than an Obamaniac? My favorite moment is the guy hyperventilating into a paper bag as McCain talks about a hundred years, maybe a thousand years . . .
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Eels, eels, eels
Eels are coming to Boston! Playing the Somerville Theater on March 31st, 2008. If you don’t know Eels, you should check out Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1, which includes a 24-song CD (sort of a greatest hits album, with 2 unrelased songs) and a 12 song DVD of videos. Also worth picking…
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Second Pass at Avatar Plugin (MBLA plus)
A little while ago Alper ÇuÄŸun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for an image in the hCard. This is a nice step towards URL-based identifiers rather than email based ones. However, I also wanted to show avatars for users…
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Grezzo, Boston’s New Raw Vegan Restaurant
Via MARC comes an article in the Boston Herald’s Edge section on Grezzo, the new raw vegan restaurant: “Raw Energy: High priestess of ‘living food’ movement brings new eatery to North End” Grezzo Zucchini Canneloni (photo from Boston Herald article) From the article: Depending on the season, Grezzo patrons may enjoy dishes like coconut curried…
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IPCC Chief Links Vegetarianism to Climate Change
As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to…
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Testing some new plugins
Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins – apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did remember this time to disable tweet-tools, so I won’t be twitter spamming.) Testing comments via OpenID – if you enter an OpenID url in the “url” box…
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Coverville Countdown FTW!
Brian Ibbott of Coverville allows encourages people each year to send in brief “intros” to each of the top 40 songs in the Coverville Countdown. This year I took him up on the offer – and he used my entry! Check out part III of the 2007 Coverville Countdown (assuming you’re not already a subscriber).…
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Veggieist Bostonist Introducedist
The folks at Bostonist have launched a regular vegan column: In part due to the all the wonderful feedback we received from our two vegan-themed holiday posts, we’ve decided to have the vegan column be a regular feature. Every Thursday Bostonist will offer some vegan love; not limited to recipes, veg/vegan restaurant reviews, compassionate living…
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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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HSUS Biggest Victories in Helping Animals
Check out this video of the Humane Society’s biggest victories in helping animals: Closing of Seal Markets (2007) Animal Fighting Prohibition Act Passed (May 2007) PETS Act Passed to Save Pets in Disasters (Oct 2006) Hundreds of Pets Rescued from California Wildfires (Oct. 2007) Largest Veal and Pig Producers Abandon Crates (2007) Arizona and Oregon…
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Zurich – Pot au vert
Last night I had dinner at Pot au vert, a vegetarian restaurant near the main train station (hauptbanhoff) in Zurich. Although the “menu card” (linked to the image) online is only available in German, as in most Swiss restaurants English menus are available and the waitstaff speak many languages (German, English, and French most often).…
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Bill Maher talks Turkey at the Huffington Post
Via the MARC list I came across Bill Maher’s excellent and well-timed pre-thanksgiving rant about turkeys. He links to a few slaughterhouse videos to emphasize the point: These people should be arrested. They would be if the turkeys were dogs or cats. Too bad our animal protection laws make about as much sense as fighting…
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Thanksliving 2007
Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived: We also toured around the farm and took some photos and met some animals before dinner began see the photoset at flickr. The menu was, as expected, absolutely fantastic, featuring food…
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Vegan Food Blogs
The 2007 Blogger’s Choice Award winners are out. In the “Best Food Blog” category (on page 3 of the results), three out of four winners are vegan blogs: VeganYumTum Fatfree Vegan Kitchen Vegan Lunch Box Congrats to all of them – way to represent food that’s healthy, cruelty-free, and delicious – and looks beautiful as…
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Get Happy
Nice video to get you through the midweek slump: Not one of our girls (Lucy and Georgia) but the same breed. Too funny.
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New York, New Hotel
Last week I was in New York City for a couple of days on business. Unfortunately, all the hotels I normally stay in were either booked or askign absurdly high rates. Hotels.com turned up this Comfort Inn in what was described as Times Square which seemed ok, and was certainly cheap ($265 or so before…
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