Coulda been worse
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The #1 song the day I was born was “Runaway” by Del Shannon. What’s yours?
Archive for May, 2008
Some days are just like that
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Trashing the commons
Friday, May 30th, 2008Wil Wheaton, my favorite ST:TNG actor turned geek, writes about a concert ruined by the behavior of the people near him. The 150+ comments on his post contain many similar stories.
I really honestly wonder: are people worse-behaved, more selfish, than they once were? Was there some mythical, magical time when “common courtesy” [...]
Keep watching for those four horsemen
Friday, May 30th, 2008Commentator on today’s “Morning Edition,” describing the character of Carrie Bradshaw: “Sure, she’s narcissistic, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
Pain and a drought of grace
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Today RLP linked to Ann Voskamp’s blog, A Holy Experience. Her lapidary writing and photos took my breath away. In a post about her family’s loss of her sister, she writes:
Maybe in those first few years my life curled like cupped hands, a receptacle open to the gifts He freely gives. But I [...]
Won’t someone please think of the models?
Thursday, May 29th, 2008I’ve always wondered whether it’s better to ignore self-evidently idiotic/attention-getting behavior, or call it out. I guess there’s no one right answer to that: some idiocies deserve to die quietly, and some deserve to be ruthlessly exposed.
Today’s conundrum: model/talk show host Tyra Banks, in a cover story in the New York Times [...]
Now this creeps me out
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Bioscientists use Photoshop to fake results.
“The magnitude of the fraud is phenomenal,” says Hany Farid, a computer-science professor at Dartmouth College who has been working with journal editors to help them detect image manipulation.
Raymond Kitchell FTW!
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Via Thers at Eschaton, a lovely bit from Sadly, No!, about the frantic efforts of a right-wing blogger to breathe life into a non-controversy, and the response from the owner of a WWII veterans’ site.
On widening the definition of “church”
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Sara Miles’ “Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion” is the best thing on this topic I’ve read lately. If you doubt that starting and running food pantries can be a holy undertaking, Miles will convince you otherwise. I wish she had written more about the effects of burnout on herself and her [...]
Depression sucks.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008In case you were wondering.
