Posts from — December 2004

Socialist Review: “”

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it is pretty good, and i like his books too.

Sandbag shelter wins architecture prize: “Mark Frauenfelder:

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(Via Boing Boing.)

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cooool

Weebls Stuff – Toons: “”

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Down and Out in Discount America: “Al Zack, who until his retirement in 2004 was the United Food and Commercial Workers’ vice president for strategic programs, observes that appealing to the poor was ‘Sam Walton’s real genius. He figured out how to make money off of poverty. He located his first stores in poor rural areas and discovered a real market. The only problem with the business model is that it really needs to create more poverty to grow.’ That problem is cleverly solved by creating more bad jobs worldwide. In a chilling reversal of Henry Ford’s strategy, which was to pay his workers amply so they could buy Ford cars, Wal-Mart’s stingy compensation policies–workers make, on average, just over $8 an hour, and if they want health insurance, they must pay more than a third of the premium–contribute to an economy in which, increasingly, workers can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart.”

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this is one of the reasons that i boycott walmart.

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | ‘We have to protect people’ : “But more than one gay playwright is at a stake here. Allen claims he is acting to ‘encourage and protect our culture’. Does ‘our culture’ include Shakespeare? I ask Allen if he would insist that copies of Shakespeare’s sonnets be removed from all public libraries. I point out to him that Romeo and Juliet was originally performed by an all-male cast, and that in Shakespeare’s lifetime actors and audiences at the public theatres were all accused of being ’sodomites’. When Romeo wished he ‘was a glove upon that hand’, the cheek that he fantasised about kissing was a male cheek. Next March the Alabama Shakespeare festival will be performing a new production of As You Like It, and its famous scene of a man wooing another man. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is also the State Theatre of Alabama. Would Allen’s bill cut off state funding for Shakespeare?”

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ignorant and uninformed legislators…. yes, it likely would ban shakespeare…. and reading the constitution would likely be next.

totse.com | Chemistry of women: “MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET

Woman–Chemical Analysis
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somewhat sexist, but all jokes like this are.

lab for social computing at rit: “Over on Many-to-Many I’ve made an announcement about a new Lab for Social Computing here at RIT….”

(Via mamamusings.)

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interesting project.

Grow up already!: “

In my referrer logs today is this gem of a search: ‘what+if+i+am+not+accepted+by+grad+school’

The world will end if you are not accepted by grad school. You will end up toothless and cold under a bridge with passersby spitting on you from above. Your life will be empty and meaningless.

Sheesh. If you don’t have an answer to this question, you don’t have any business applying to grad school.

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(Via Caveat Lector.)

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it’s true you know. of course… it isn’t much different than if you go to grad school, so take your chances.

You are a Maine Coon! You are larger than life, a
gentle giant. You are independent, but very
affectionate with your friends and family.

Max – from Dark Angel

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