This story was printed about 12 years ago, but it’s the first I’d heard of it and is fascinating (definitely a play or a film script in the making):“The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal”(via Boing Boing)As Tom Merrit from CNET points out, when the scientists say “don’t worry,” it’s usually time to head …
Because I don’t like to send political emails, I figured I’d post this here: Subject: Don’t let Congress off the hook for letting Bush wiretap our phone calls Hi, The Democratic-controlled Congress did the unthinkable on Saturday night: They gave President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales more unchecked power to wiretap Americans without a …
Your very own, humble yet pretty-damn-talented, LtL will be designing sound for a show called Purple Hearts which is being directed by David Epstein and produced by the Invisible City Theater Company. It’s a pretty intense play about the few men who survived for weeks in the USS West Virginia after it had sunk in …
For anyone interested in meaningful writing for the web, check out this great article “Reviving Anorexic Web Writing” by Amber Simmons. As she puts it: Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very …
Very cool new tech/power possibilities: A Crowd Farm in Boston’s South Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps would be installed beneath the station’s main lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as people walked would …
I received this through an email list and wanted to share it: IN THE FRAY: The Impoverishment of American Culture Remarks delivered by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in his Stanford Commencement Address on July 17, 2007 There is an experiment I’d love to conduct. I’d like to survey a …
BBC Radio does a story about a planned coup by a group of right wing businessmen, including Prescott Bush. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds …
Write Fight is back and I’ve entered into this weeks battle! The challenge was to write a story using the title: “Death Comes with ________” where each writer could fill in the blank or use the word “Bananas.” I chose to write a story called “Death Comes with Jeff.” If you can take a few …
. . . But very, very scary!! An amazing report from The National Review’s cruise: a bunch of rich, white, reactionary, neo-cons who don’t bother to censor themselves and say things like: A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. “Is he your only …
I just read an amazing piece in Mother Jones: “The Way to Go In Iraq,” by Peter Galbraith. I’ll be honest, I am against the war, have been from the beginning, yet I don’t really know what is going on over there. I hear about “benchmarks” but don’t know what those benchmarks might be or …