BurningbirdWhen the mayor of New Orleans was talking about the poor people of the city who didn’t have the means to escape, and gave the number at 100,000, it didn’t dawn on me at the time that in a city of 500,000 this means one in every 5 people didn’t have the means to escape […]
Sheila Lennon linked to a piece written by Anne Rice for the New York Times, Do you know what it means to lose New Orleans. She wrote: Something else was going on in New Orleans. The living was good there. The clock ticked more slowly; people laughed more easily; people kissed; people loved; there was joy. … […]
AKMA wrote a post about the ongoing political discussions surrounding the effects of Katrina and the government’s response. He wrote: “This is no time for politics,” people say, and to the extent that some of us might be about more immediately useful work, they may be right — but one useful end that some of us can […]
I really love the television ads from this beer company. And the company is pretty cool, too. It’s kind of funny that television has actually become one of the most honest means of advertising, but in the days of web pop-ups and covert product spokespeople, putting a story to film almost seems quaint. (Disclaimer: I am not […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Technorati has a new beta feature: blogs with authority on topics. I, of course, checked out my site on certain topics to see if I am an ‘authority’. I am the second highest authority on photography after Tim Bray ahead of Heather Champ. A big surprise there. I am eleven in technology, after Doc and Meg and Scoble but before Dave Sifry, himself. […]