Related environmental item: Michael Wong-Sasso’s birthday party was held at quite possibly the coolest place imaginable for a six-year-old boy: the dump.
Ecopod: the environmentally-friendly coffin. Gimme a break. “Made from 100% ecologically sound materials the Pod is the ideal product for a non toxic burial or cremation.” Isn’t death all about toxicity? This concept might be too ridiculous even for Bobos. (Link via Reenhead, a cool DC blog I recently discovered.)
“If you’re a liberal, why haven’t you joined the antiwar movement?” (New York Times; free registration required.) I’ve been asking myself that very question recently.
The excellent Rolf Potts, whose award-winning travel writing and “vagabonding” ethic I greatly admire, has launched a new site. Vagabonding.net showcases material and resources from his new book, “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.” It’ll be published later this month; I can’t wait to read it.
It shall pain me to see Tom Glavine, who’s been an Atlanta Brave his whole career, and who’ll be a hall of fame pitcher when he retires, put on the (dreaded) Mets uniform next season.
Meet the worldview desktop v0.9. For those who really like to see what’s happening, at any given moment, all over the world.
Today is Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday. When the inevitable happens and he passes away some day, I’ll be interested to see how history remembers him. His legacy will reflect the last half-century’s dynamic change in Southern (and American) race relations: his infamous 1957 filibuster of civil rights legislation was simply wrong, but he is, by […]
I just came across the DC Metro Blog Map, which is a cool representation of Washington-area bloggers.
More from my buddy Reeves re: the guy who committed suicide Cask-of-Amontillado-style: “Don’t be silly. We’re talking about Italy in the early 50s. No one lived alone. They were still rebuilding from WWII, their economy was a shambles, and it’s a European country, you know, that place where people routinely live with their parents well […]
My friend Reeves responds to the item below: “What’s most shocking is that no one in the man’s family seemed to notice THE ENTIRELY NEW WALL IN THEIR HOUSE.”
Ha. I assume he lived alone. And the new wall was in the cellar, after all, so it might’ve been easy to overlook.
Here’s an incredible story. 44 years ago, an Italian man was diagnosed with a terminal disease. He didn’t want to worry his family with news of his impending death, so he told them he was moving to America. Then he packed a couple suitcases, built a wall around himself in his home, and shot himself. […]
Frontline’s “The Merchants of Cool” is a documentary about the creation and marketing of teen pop culture. I haven’t seen it, but I want to. On the show’s site, Robert McChesney, a media critic, discusses an argument I’d love to read more about: teenagers in non-commercial societies are happier than those in hyper-commercial ones, like […]
Did “a race of long and narrow-headed humans”–Asians–populate the Americas before Native Americans?
What a brilliant idea. The Varieties of the Balloon Hat Experience Web site: two guys travel around the world taking pictures of people laughing and wearing silly balloon hats.
“Bertelsmann’s Barracks” is an exceptional article about plans to unify all of Random House’s imprints in one Times Square office building later this month. Their parent company, German conglomerate Bertelsmann, is forcing my former colleagues, all 1,000 of them, to–gasp–share the same roof and–the real kicker–reside in identical offices. The article–particularly the quotes from Random […]