Archive for April, 2006
Discovery Channel Documentary, North Korea - Children of the Secret State
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Documentary, North Korea - Children of the Secret State
Bill Buford goes whole hog into Tuscan cuisine
Bill Buford has written one of the best articles I’ve ever read for this month’s New Yorker - Carnal Knowledge: How I Became a Tuscan Butcher. Part personal journey borne of a desire to commiserate with the reality of our grocery-store fed lives, part travelogue of rural Tuscany, it’s a masterpiece.
America’s Ambivalence toward International Law
Nixon the environmentalist. Reagan an early mover to counteract ozone depletion. America’s invasion of Hawaii. It’s remarkable how a little time paves over the details in our perception of history. Brian Urquhart reviews of three recent books on international law, focusing on America’s ambivalence towards the rule of law and national autonomy.
Link: New York Review […]
MS150
2 days. 180 miles. 12,000 riders. 10 million raised for MS research. Not a bad weekend. Kris, Katy and I cross the finish line.
New EP from Mieka Pauley, Out of Car Wrecks & Hurricanes
I just realized I have an extra copy of Mieka Pauley’s excellent new EP Out of Car Wrecks & Hurricanes. Be the first to e-mail me with your address and I’ll mail it off to you.
UPDATE: We have a winner.
Grupsters, the new adulthood
I know a few of these:
He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn’t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won’t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap.
Links: New York, Up with Grups
The Grace Bible Church Podcast, Guinea Pigs Needed
I just finished creating a podcast for my church and I need a few guinea pigs if any of y’all would be willing. Basically I just need to know if it works and if people have trouble subscribing or downloading the mp3 files. If you want to play, grab a copy of iTunes and follow the directions below. If you are offended by the idea of being associated with rodents, feel free to refer to yourself as a beta-tester.
1. Download a podcast reader such as Apple’s iTunes (it’s free, no excuses)
2. Install it, then run the program
3. Click the “Podcasts” option in the Source menu (on the left)
4. Copy the link http://feeds.feedburner.com/GraceBibleChurchPodcast
5. From the iTunes menu select “Advanced” and “Subscribe to Podcast”
6. Paste the link from step 4 into the URL field
For steps 4 through 6 you can also try to drag and drop the following icon:
Subscribe to the Grace Bible Church Podcast
Springsteen, the Seeger Sessions
The Boss has been hard at work on a Pete Seeger tribute album coming out April 25, We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions. I have a feeling the Born to Run fans will feel a little out in the cold, but folkies and traditionalists like myself are in heaven. He’s got a large, old-timey band […]
Investigating Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Part of my transition to law school mode has been trying to think of all the things that it might be nice to know how to do before crunchtime. I sat in on Johnny Rex Buckles’ Taxation of Non-Profit Organizations last week and one thing I noticed was that Buckles would bring up an obscure […]
Design for the bottom line
One of the hardest concepts to get through to clients and co-workers is that design is principally functional, not decorative. While we can conceptualize the word design as a noun, it started off as a verb and when it comes right down to it a good design is designed to do something, to mean something, to communicate something. In the words of William Carlos Williams, a mantra for creative work of all kinds - “no ideas except in things.”
With this in mind, it’s refreshing to see design blogger Niti Bhan, Core77 tackle the profit equation of design in recent posts. A article from Display & Design Ideas chronicles McDonald’s most recent attempt to attack the bottom line with design, following the company’s first quarterly loss at the end of 2002, and the unflattering image cast from movies like SuperSize Me