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In my massive bookmark collection, I have a subtitle named "Revolution." This was added to that folder.

This is worth a read. It's got some great ideas and I'll be using it as a point of reference when I talk to people about the drive toward authenticity. That fact that I read it, and am linking to it, using the internet is more than a little bit ironic ( Read more... )

Ok, so how come nobody told me about Switzerland gun policy? Or does everyone already know about it? Let me summarize: Upon turning 18, a male undergoes compulsory military service and receives an assault rifle. Every Swiss male keep this weapon at home. Which means, while Switzerland has no standing army, it has an effective militia. Also, ( Read more... )

I was going to swim after class, but it was all gray outside, so I got a bagel instead. And I had some peanut butter toast before class, and zach's tofu scramble right after the bagel, so that makes three breakfasts. Awesome.

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So I'm proud of these. At work we have these little "till tags" that mark which box of money belong to you. The bottom two are my old ones, if you're having trouble seeing them the last is a warrior riding a prehistoric beast and the second to last is a skull with a snake coming out of the mouth, basically the Dark Mark (I was totally amazed that ( Read more... )

This has been one hell of a week. Where to begin? I'm reminded of the opening of that Jurassic 5 song, "My pen drips/ As I scribble my thoughts on thin strips," except that song is about friends becoming more than friends. So actually it's not a great comparison, but try to imagine that attitude toward documentation ( Read more... )

Awesome.

Wow, so Match Point was great. Turns out Woody Allen can write a damn fine thriller. I was all scared and hot. Whew. Plus it was steeped in Dostoyevsky, and musings about luck, and tons of art, and to top it off a critical scene takes places against a Banksy work in London. Damn fine. And it was just beautiful, so tight, so real. The dvd ( Read more... )