BurningbirdI realize my job here is to create entertaining stuff for you, but the muse isn’t on me. I’ll leave you other people’s creative stuff. From the Indiana University anthropology department, The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture. Fake testicles for your dog. I kid you not. (via Metafilter). Fish genetically engineered to taste like fish. Huh. From Malaria, […]
updated See CL & P Blog for in-depth update on the hearings for arbitration fairness. Congress had another subcommittee hearing on the Arbitration Fairness Act. The Consumerist live blogged the hearing, accompanied by the expected pithy comments. Senator Brownback kept harping on the Kansas Fence Law. HomeOwners for Better Building publishes an opinion piece by Susan Antilla from Bloomberg, which had […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Mernit has a quote from professional photographer, Lane Hartwell, about setting her Flickr stream to private because of image theft. What spurred this on was the popular Web 2.0 Bubble video, which I also linked, and which didn’t credit any of the people whose work it used. Hartwell wrote: Matt Hempey, the creator […]
The weather powers have predicted snow for St. Louis, and a decent amount, too. St. Louis is not a city that gets much snow, so 6 inches or so is significant for us. I was coming home from the store today–fresh veggies and dip, a favorite snowed in treat–when I saw the complex maintenance guys […]