Google maps street view released for Boston!

This is really cool. Now people can figure out how to get to my house!

2 Larose Place, Brighton MA

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Brush up on your vocab, while helping world hunger

This website, http://www.freerice.com/, FREE Rice lets you play a simple brain builder vocab game and for every question you get right they donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. 22 countries are involved in helping. Is is going to make a HUGE difference? Probably not, but it can't hurt.

People ARE starting to get wind of this site and the donations have risen steadily.

TOTAL DONATIONS BY DAY

October 7 830
October 10 287,960
October 15 6,403,920

And In November...

November 16 198,342,510
November 29 383,730,260

Cool huh?



EXAMPLE:

scrupulous means:

1. very many
2. conscientious
3. gruesome
4. additional

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Rock, Paper and Scissors. The Hilarious Truth

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!!!!!!!!! SOX MAKE OFFER TO MIKE LOWELL!!!!!

FROM ROTOWORLD.COM

MIKE LOWELL
The Red Sox have a three-year offer out to Mike Lowell that they may not be
willing to budge off of, according to the Boston Globe.

Lowell will be able to get four or maybe even five years elsewhere, something
the Red Sox must know. If they're sticking to three years, it better include a very good salary ($16 million per year or so). While Lowell wants to play in Boston, he can only leave so much money on the table.

According to the Boston Herald, the Red Sox have offered Mike Lowell a three-year
contract worth between $12 million and $15 million per season.

Boston is holding strong to their plan to avoid a fourth year, which Lowell
could likely get elsewhere, but $15 million per season might make him consider the three-year deal. The newspaper also reports that the Red Sox are "unlikely" to trade for Miguel Cabrera and could potentially replace Mike Lowell by acquiring a first baseman and sliding new Gold Glover Kevin Youkilis back across the diamond.

ERIC GAGNE
Agent Scott Boras said Eric Gagne would pursue a closer's role as a free
agent this winter. The Red Sox would surely like to see Gagne sign elsewhere quickly in order to guarantee that they'll get a draft pick. If he's still on the market this month, they'd have to risk offering him arbitration in order to land the supplemental first-round selection. After his rough second half, Gagne may be able to make more in arbitration than he would elsewhere.

MATT CLEMENT
Asked Wednesday about potentially re-signing Matt Clement, general manager
Theo Epstein said that he "probably has better options elsewhere."
Clement was a major bust in Boston, posting a 5.19 ERA in 256 1/3 innings after signing a three-year deal, but has reportedly drawn interest from the Padres and Royals now that he's available cheaply as a reclamation project.

Voting rates in MA down to 14% in most recent election

Boston's voter turnout plummeted to its lowest level in more than two decades yesterday, especially in the city's predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, a tide of apathy that swept the City Council's only Latino member, Felix Arroyo, out of office.

Did anyone know there was an election? I did, but I still didn't go, I was working... The Globe tried tried to explain these sad numbers:

Reversing a trend of increasing voting by minority groups set over the last five years, turnout was especially low in nonwhite communities and disproportionately strong in traditionally white, Irish enclaves of South Boston, West Roxbury, and Dorchester. The shift propelled West Roxbury lawyer John Connolly onto the council, replacing Arroyo.

"There's a lot of lonely poll workers out there," Boston Election Commissioner Geraldine Cuddyer said. "It's very, very sad."

SO HERE'S AN IDEA: Why don't you pay people to vote???? There is so much freakin' money wasted on campaigns, why don't they put some of that toward paying people to vote? Here's a site that promotes this idea. It might seem wacky, and I'm sure illegal, but its an interesting concept, considering how apathetic people are these days.

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Jamie Sammy back blur

Jamie Sammy back blur, originally uploaded by ssgreenspam.

At Red Sox vs. Yankees Game, Summer 2007. Fenway Park


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Your anus is what?

Your anus is what?, originally uploaded by ssgreenspam.

Bleeding.


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Sand Kokopelli

Sand Kokopelli, originally uploaded by ssgreenspam.

Sand drawings on the South Shore, Summer

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Fenway National Anthem

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Red Sox Yankees Game Summer 2007









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Ode to Wesleyan, from 1956

Wesleying published this poem (that was also in the Argus). From 1956. Amazing reflection...

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate scholastic pressure and
compulsory chapel credits and
the great god Integration
and yes, of course, for some reason or other
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate all your pseudo-intellectual and
pedantic undergraduates and
optimistic jelly fish
and yes, of course, for some reason or other
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I know I should have gone to school
down where the nights are gay and
the sun shines daily on the mountain top
and there are women. And
if I had to do it over again
I wouldn't come here, but never mind.
I just hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
You frown on athletics and
you build well rounded amoebas and
you have prudish house parties
and all the time South College is
telling us we're leaders.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
I hate all your arty individualists
and I hate your fraternities
because everyone is so gregarious and
I hate immediate rushing
and yes, of course, passionately
I hate South College.

Wesleyan, I hate you.
You present no more challenges for me
because I'm no more a disillusioned young freshman
and I can see through all your spurious fanfare
and when someone asks me where I go to school
and I answer, they ask me if it's a girl's school
in spite of the fact that South College tells us
that this is a top school and that everyone in
the whole wide world knows about it and
respects it. Everyone's heard of Amherst.

But Wesleyan, most of all I hate you
Because you made me introspect and
Made me feel guilty I didn't do my homework
and made me conscious of so many things
I didn't even know existed before and
Because you made me feel so stupid,
So helplessly frustrated and stupid.

And Wesleyan, I hate you
because you made me feel I owe
humanity a debt, because you made me
read poetry and listen to my nogood
roommate's problems and dress up for dinner
every night. And Wesleyan, I hate you
because you taught me how to judge,
how to criticize, how to doubt, and how to
hate. Through you I learned there was no storybook
God, and now my soul is empty and
I have to fill it somehow
all by my little lonesome self.
Wesleyan, I like you.

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My wes mail is entirely full of penis enlargement mail

..and I will never be checking it again except to delete the spam.

Case in point:

Subject: Change your peanut into a coconut
The truth is in the size
More fuel with a bigger penis

Subject: D-packed
hey sambos07 (how the f* did they get my gmail username...)
i think your taking the small penis thing way too lightly, it needs size!

Subject: Even if you don't have erection problems
When you are young and stressed up…
When you are aged and never give up…
Viagra gives you confidence in any chance, every time.

Subject: Know her from the sexual side how is she inside exactly
Ladies always giggled at me and even guys did in the public toilets! Well now I laugh at them because I took megadik for 6 months and now my dick is much bigger than "average" size.
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Brady vs. Manning

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"Fucking around is in fact detrimental to the work process"

WASHINGTON, DC—According to a groundbreaking new study by the
Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a
productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work
accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more
common practices of wasting time and not working...

FULL STORY (From "The Onion)

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Alas, the trees will lose their leaves all in one day.

It's gon be windy!!! WTF I'm not ready to say goodbye to fall in Boston. Luckily, I will be in NYC this weekend and will miss getting knocked around by strong winds.

This just popped up on my screen (with my handy firefox weather plug-in)

Massachusetts Watches and Warnings National Weather Service Zone

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 322 PM EDT THU NOV
1 2007

DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY IN RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. .THE REMNANTS OF THE ALREADY DEADLY TROPICAL STORM NOEL WILL EVOLVE INTO A STRONG COASTAL STORM SATURDAY.AS IT TRACKS SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET. THIS INCLUES THE CITIES OF...FRAMINGHAM (NOT A CITY!)...LOWELL...LAWRENCE...GLOUCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY... TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD... MATTAPOISETT...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET...FOSTER...SMITHFIELD...PROVIDENCE... WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK...BRISTOL...NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY... NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND..blah blah

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. DAMAGING NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS IS ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. ALONG THE COAST FROM PROVIDENCE TO BOSTON...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. FARTHER INLAND INTO THE INTERSTATE 495 CORRIDOR...WINDS MAY BE A BIT WEAKER WITH SUSTAINED WINDS TO 30 MPH AND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. HOWEVER... THESE LOCATIONS MAY EXPERIENCE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES SINCE MANY TREES STILL HAVE THEIR LEAVES.

KEEP IN MIND THERE IS UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE TRACK OF THIS STORM. THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS WOULD DECREASE IF IT TRACKS FARTHER OFFSHORE... BUT WOULD INCREASE OVER MORE OF THE AREA IF IT TRACKS CLOSER TO THE COAST. A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS TO DEVELOP. THESE STRONG WINDS ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING TREES AND POWER LINES AS WELL AS CAUSING PROPERTY DAMAGE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON.

In other fun, remember hurricane bob? A willow tree fell on my house. Uncool.

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"Oh, and here's your housewarming gift..."

Bikini-rama and iPhone

great, this is great

Hypnotic video edit of old commercials

Call and Response from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.

Timelapse 3d photography

Found this on about:blank

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Walmart spreading like germ culture

Found an article abut the trouble Wal-Mart is facing, because competitors are offering Wal-Mart's low prices along with better quality merchandise, better service, and more convenience. This video shows the way Wal-Mart has spread across the country like a microbe culture in a petri dish. Today, though, Wal-Mart's influence over the retail universe is slipping. In fact, the industry's titan is scrambling to keep up with swifter rivals that are redefining the business all around it. It can still disrupt prices, as it did last year by cutting some generic prescriptions to $4. But success is no longer guaranteed. Rival retailers lured Americans away from Wal-Mart's low-price promise by offering greater convenience, more selection, higher quality, or better service. Amid the country's growing affluence, Wal-Mart has struggled to overhaul its down-market, politically incorrect image while other discounters pitched themselves as more upscale and more palatable alternatives. The Internet has changed shoppers' preferences and eroded the commanding influence Wal-Mart had over its suppliers.

Woopee

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In Congo, rape epidemic worses

Each day, at least ten new women and girls who have been raped show up at one hospital in the Congo. Many have been so violently assaulted "from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair," according to this piece by Jeffrey Gettlemen in today's New York Times:

According to victims, one of the newest groups to emerge is called the Rastas, a mysterious gang of dreadlocked fugitives who live deep in the forest, wear shiny tracksuits and Los Angeles Lakers jerseys and are notorious for burning babies, kidnapping women and literally chopping up anybody who gets in their way.

United Nations officials said the so-called Rastas were once part of the Hutu militias who fled Rwanda after committing genocide there in 1994, but now it seems they have split off on their own and specialize in freelance cruelty.

Honorata Barinjibanwa, an 18-year-old woman with high cheekbones and downcast eyes, said she was kidnapped from a village that the Rastas raided in April and kept as a sex slave until August. Most of that time she was tied to a tree, and she still has rope marks ringing her delicate neck. The men would untie her for a few hours each day to gang-rape her, she said.

“I’m weak, I’m angry, and I don’t know how to restart my life,” she said from Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where she was taken after her captors freed her.

She is also pregnant.

SEE ARTICLE

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Death count

Earthlings: A Devastating Documentary on Humanity's Lack of Respect for Other Living Creatures

I ran across this article by Dr. Ben Kim about a documentary called Earthlings. Joaquin Phoenix (yes the actor, who is also an animals rights activist) narrates this thought-provoking documentary, exposing humankind's unnecessary and cruel dependence on animals for food, clothing, experimentation, and entertainment. Earthlings is supposedly the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the connection between human economic interests and the welfare of animals. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest animal-dependent industries in the world. (WARNING: Will disturb and anger you)

WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY FOR FREE

They tried to make me go to Jihad...

Found on a right-wing site, but pretty funny still..

Controversial head piece... awesome

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Whitney Music Box

Joe sent me this link today. This spinning combination of circles of different sizes, color and placement, all cross the line in certain patterns of chromatic scales. For example, on the first one on the page, in three minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on. Seems boring? Not at all. Check it out to hear what kind of music it creates. Check out, var. 6 microtones, var. 8 chromatic 88 organ pipes, var. 15 stereo 120 and var. 17 hand cranked which lets you crank up the spin and make your own.

Technorati Tags: chromatic scale, mircrotones

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American War Dead Peer Out from the Portraits of Their Killer

Two different initiatives have put the presidency of George W. Bush into perspective. At last count (in 2004, when article written), nearly 1,000 American soldiers were sent to Iraq thinking they were fighting for American security. They returned to America in boxes, hidden by their Government in the darkness of night. They now have their proud faces peering out from the portraits of the man who is responsible for their death.

The image on the left was created by "a group of us, concerned and patriotic Americans." According to their website, they began in February 2004, when there were about 400 fallen U.S. soldiers. Due to their busy schedules, however, they were unable to get together until June 2004 (by then there were over 850 fallen soldiers) to finish the image.

The image on the right was posted to a blog in April 2004, without much of a story or attribution.

These pictures were found this this website, http://www.whywehatebush.com

Pics are here

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: Voted The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School (in the US)

Gawker.com has published a bunch of articles claiming Wes to be the most annoying liberal arts school. We only won over Sarah Lawrence because they published that they were trying to win. The articles are pretty funny. While I think we should be high up there, I think the medal should have gone to Sarah Lawrence or Hampshire...

Article that contains the vote
Wesleyan Wins!

Here are some of the comments made:

"My best friend from high school went to Wes. He was the nerdy Phish technocrat who laid awake at night listening to his amorous roommates fucking. He now works for Merriam-Webster as a dictionary editor."

"One of my friends goes to Wesleyan and lives in the Buddhist House. She is white and not a Buddhist. Everyone in the house is white and none of them were raised Buddhist, either. If that doesn't sum up Wesleyan I don't know what will. To think I almost went there..."

"My girlfriend went to Wesleyan. She keeps dragging me to house parties in Brooklyn thrown by other Wesleyanites. I dread these parties. I have feigned leprosy in order to avoid them. I have claimed to be a Libertarian and Ayn Rand fan in order for the Wes grads to stop telling me stories about the Naked Dorm, the Naked Parties, the Naked granola station.

Last year a good friend invited me to dinner to convince her high school senior son "R____" to choose Wesleyan over SLC, Reed, Kenyon et al. I shot from the hip.

about a certain former women's college :
"Aw, that school is a union busting bastion of rich kids with opium pipes."

about a certain school in the Pacific Northwest:
"Yeah, you'll wake up one day in the quad on mushrooms dressed in your aunts baggy panties with hoof marks branded on your ass."

about a certain school in CT:
"Dude, the guy who created Buffy went there...do you know the Buffy musical episode with Hinton Battle? *sings "Let Me Rest In Peace"*"

about SLC:
"Man, I gotta be honest...you will meet a girl at orientation...by the end of 1st semester, both of you will become THE WORST KIND OF LESBIANS. And then one of you will do prison time alone."

about a school in Minnesota:
"Sorry, they have to import colored people to that hood...and they won't have any pineapple near the cereal bar...just maple syrup."

He wound up going to Wesleyan. I think I am going to Hell."

"Please vote for Wesleyan. Here is why: I recently ran into a Wesleyan undergrad I went to high school with. When I inquired as to his summer plans, he said he had gotten a research grant to study homelessness in New York. This "study" included a two-week stint as - i'm not shitting you - an actual homeless person. The rich hipstard actually lived on the street for two weeks and "hung out" with homeless people, and WESLEYAN PAID HIM TO DO IT."

"You guys realize that outside of New York, no one has ever even heard of half these colleges, right? When I first got here and I met people who said "I went to Sarah Lawrence" I thought they were talking about a secretarial school."

"Vassar made me the fag I am today."

"If we're really looking for a school to replace Oberlin as Gawker's go-to annoying-liberal-arts-grad-living-and-'being'-in NYC, the prize has to go to Wesleyan. Sarah Lawrence grads seem to be at least partially aware that some people might not have heard of their alma mater, this thought has never crossed the mind of a Wesleyan alum. Just about the only bond shared by the two groups coming out of the school (the weirder-than thou hippies and the cooler-than-thou hipsters) is their unmatchable sense of entitlment."

"While I was at Sarah Lawrence, during an afternoon of acid and lesbian experimentation, my "girlfriend" and I came to the realization that Sarah Lawrence was not really a college at all-- it was merely a posh residential mental health care facility that our parents had tricked us into enrolling by calling it School. That's why we were taking classes in Initiation Rituals and "The Psychology of Children's Friendships". Of course we felt driven to tell as many people as possible the incredible truth we'd discovered. It think it's worth noting that some people actually gave this theory creedence, even without LSD.

However annoying (and I lived through an epidemic of girls wearing skirts over jeans on campus, people getting scabies from frolicking in piles of leaves, and I'm sure I contributed as much pretentious poetry as anyone else) I cheerfully write a check for $700 each month to Sallie Mae and will continue to do so for the next 28 years. SLC gave me an incredible education...That said, I hope we get the vote. I'd hate for us to be the second-most annoying liberal arts college. That kind of mediocrity looks better on Bard."

If you needed more reasons to be happy you graduated...

For friends who are still going to Wes, just started, or have siblings going, you should read this. If you haven't heard the policy for parties at Wes have become more restricted by the administration. This article outlines the changes: Party's over: New policy targets woodframe parties

There was a great wespeak I saw that makes some really great points and anyone still attending the university should see it. The nanny university

One point I like was:

Why can't off-campus housing be an option for any student who does not agree with an administrative policy—whether the policy involves pets and tapestries, or parties and cigarettes? We're talking about social regulations, not academic policy, and at what point can we say the administration has gone too far?

So glad I've graduated...

Pick your candidate

A useful little app that goes through the current campaign issues and then selects the candidates that best represents your opinions.

Pick your candidate

VIRGIN FEST : Aug 4-5

Aug 4-5 (Sat,Sun). Baltimore. Tickets: $175 (or $97.50 per day). SO worth it. BUY at Ticketmaster.com
Let me know if you are interested in going.

Bright Eyes, always hits me right

Some things you lose
You don't get back
So just know what you have
And make a plan to love me sometime soon

Life is Too short
To be a fool
I don't owe you that

Do what you feel
Whatever is cool
But I just have to ask

First you want to ride off into the Sun
Then you want to shoot straight to the Moon
Make a plan to love me sometime soon

It's really crazy when your horoscope is VERY fitting for almost an entire week...

Here's today:

If you have been feeling intense pressure to perform at work, your discomfort is about to change. But in the meantime, keep in mind that this intensity can also be the source of your current success. You must meet your present obligations to fulfill the requirements of your job. Others can appreciate your commitment, even if you don't live up to your own high expectations. Thursday, May 3, 2007

Visual DNA

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Overheard at College

Morris County College

Prof: What does “temperate” mean?
Dude: It means “weatherful.”

Mills College

Crazy chick: Where can you get moral fiber? From eating Cheerios?…I guess you can get moral fiber by eating organic Cheerios…

And also from Mills:

Chick: The next photo I post on MySpace is going to be of my crotch.

Westfield State College

Guy on cell: Watching that movie made me feel like I don’t like Jewish people…Well, I know you’re Jewish. I meant the people in the movie…I’m not a moron.

New York University (NYU)

Prof: I mean, Hitler really gave racism a bad name.

Found at: Overheard at College

Keith Richards Snorted His Dad

(From BoingBoing) This reminds me of a 6Ft Under episode when some idiot kids snort the ashes of their bimbo actress friend.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards told the NME music mag that he once snorted a bit of his old man's ashes. From Reuters:

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort?" the Sun quoted Richards as saying in its early Wednesday edition. "My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."

UPDATE: Richards's manager says Keith was just kidding. LAME

On love and hatred

..It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow...

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lost Girls!!

I just picked up this book I ordered at school today. It's expensive (on purpose -- nice packaging to deter immediate judgment of pornographic/Erotic material) but totally worth it.

Alan Moore's erotic "Lost Girls"

An amazing new work by graphic novel master Alan Moore (previous works: Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, and the first two sets of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Killing Joke, and Brought to Light).

His newest: a series of works titled "Lost Girls Collected," created with illustrator Melinda Gebbie. Violet says:

"[It features] explicit sex -- portrayed in a compelling, highly pleasurable way. Like the setting of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls has Moore revisiting characters from Victorian fiction, where the main female characters from Neverland, Wonderland and Oz meet as adults in a strange hotel in 1913 to set out on a sexual adventure together."

And Moore explains:

"It presents this material in a way which is every bit as sensual and beautiful and at times, startling, as the actual sexual act itself can be. I think that was probably why we did it. The sexual imagination, which is the biggest part of sexuality, is not well served in our culture, and I really don't understand why that should be.

The only way that we can talk about or refer to sex -- we have two choices: we can either do it in grubby works of pornography that will be read by people who are desperately ashamed of what they are reading, or we can discuss sex in the clinical manner of sex manuals or The Joy of Sex. Neither of these things have got anything that I, or probably most other normal people actually associate with our sexuality."

Original Post: BoingBoing

Fox Attacks: Black America

Fox has an awful record of airing bigoted views and highly problematic framing around race issues. www.foxattacks.com

YOU MUST WATCH THIS

Pencils made from cremated humans

from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow:
Artist Nadine Jarvis can fabricate pencils from carbon left over by incinerating human remains -- it's part of a larger "research project into post mortem." She notes that "240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind."

Link

Wesleyan Argus -- Foursquare

Foursquare: the real victim By Brian Jordan

Since the week of May 11th, 2003, chalking has been banned at Wesleyan University. This ban was the result of a contentious battle, fought on the pavement by a group of students looking suspiciously like a Crayola street marketing team. The dispute with the administration was so epic, it was covered by the New York Times. But this fight was just a big cloudy smokescreen hiding the reality; the slow death of an American institution. Won't somebody think of the foursquare? Sure, the complain-o-crats over at the New York Times say the sidewalk chalking had gotten to the point where "obscenity was rampant and unpopular professors were disparaged by name." But just because a professor is named Dr. John Is-An-Asshole doesn't mean the act of writing it down should be punishable. Wesleyan is off the mark here. The real issue can be found wedged between "foursome" and "fourstar" in the dictionary. QED. Let me lay it down for you a little slower. In order for one to play the popular recess game four-square, you need a court and a ball. The ball can be found at the local, if depressing, Toys 'R' Us, or from Freeman when the ball-checkout booth people aren't looking. The lines of the court, however, like the houses of California's Yokut tribe, must be made from whatever materials happen to be around. Hmm... What can one use to make lines on pavement... Tape? Technically littering. Clothing? Streaking is frowned upon. Pressure-sensitive electronics to determine whether the ball bounced on or off the line? Already been done at Wimbledon. Candy? You already ate it, and that would be a waste of licorice anyway. There's only one option left... you know what it is... And it's banned. Keep Wesleyan Weird? As if. We have bigger problems: Keep Foursquare Alive. Jordan is a member of the class of 2010 and self-proclaimed Foursquare Czar. The Wesleyan Argus

Deplorable living conditions for wounded soldiers in DC

NPR News -- Nation

Bush Tours Walter Reed Hospital, and Apologizes

by Don Gonyea

All Things Considered, March 30, 2007 · President Bush went to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., Friday, his first trip there since revelations six weeks ago about deplorable living conditions for wounded soldiers in the facility's outpatient housing.

Substandard conditions and policies at the hospital brought resignations after they were exposed in news reports. The president used the occasion to apologize to veterans for what they endured during their recovery, and to vow that the problems will be fixed.

"We're not going to be satisfied until everybody gets the kind of care that their folks and families expect," the president said.

Still, President Bush came under criticism today.

Some wondered why he waited so long after the news broke to visit Walter Reed personally. And they asked why he didn't take a first-hand look at repairs being done at one of Building 18, which soldiers he met told him was particularly troubled.

Democrats said the problems at the Army medical center are part of a larger picture — that of an administration that has cut funding for veterans programs and which didn't adequately plan for the war and its long-term effects.

Other related stories: There is more, and less, to the Walter Reed Scandal

Mario Bros. in Legos -- Video

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