I just watched "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee" on PBS. It was great. Architecture for real, poor people in need, by architecture students who got to know who they were building for and how to help them. He founded the Rural Studio in Alabama ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/tc_ynews/ynews_tc2189

I expect this crap from Facebook, but LJ? Sad...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/07/lego-furniture-designs-ph_n_559246.html

"Busy-ness does not make us happy. Muller reminds us that the Chinese symbol for busy is composed of two characters: heart and killing."

http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/508.Frances_Mayes?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mar_newsletter

"At the top of Bowling Green is Lynch's Castle, a memorial of Galway's Mayor Lynch, who in 1493 executed his own son, a convicted murderer, and thus launched the verb LYNCH."-from "For the Love of Ireland"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_en_ot/us_obit_zinn

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

I highly recommend watching all three videos. Very inspiring. :)

Wow, I haven't made an in depth post in a while. Where to start. On the fourth we had meowgasmic and Corry over for dinner, drinking, and conversation. It was a lot of fun ( Read more... )

Yet another informative article Mike sent me. Read it, for your own good.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawna-robins/trans-fats-of-the-skin-ca_b_112236.html