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Alice from Wonderland loves the Wii: "You know what, I think it's a fantastic name. It's girly, metro, slinky, inoffensive, funny, cute, KAWAIIII, and it's got people really talking." Over at hello, nintendo we lack that vision. Wii?

Living in the City

Living in New York City is all about embracing constraints and making them work for you. For better or for worse, New Yorkers surround themselves with rules.

For instance, at the Shake Shack today I noticed that they've instituded a 6 burger per person limit. In the loading dock one block down, they ask that you please "go" outside and advise that you avoid "stickley" garbage.

Recycling & Foie Gras

Meg's been following the growing movement against Foie Gras and yesterday noted PETA's heavy handed tactics in getting the legislation passed. I'm a strong advocate of animal rights, but I'm definitely no fan of PETA. Often people hate PETA so much they lose the ability to think critically about animal rights. PETA is the far right of the left. I love Meg's idea about creating laws to encourgae the humane treatment of animals modeled after organic certification.

I'm suspicious of Foie Gras' current status as a cause celebré. It reminds me of recycling's role in the environmental movement - it makes people feel active and progressive, but only in rare cases does the act of recycling encourage conservation and smart reuse. We're just doing free labor for waste management companies.

updates:

• Certified humane, via megnut.


• The Gurgling Cod: "No one mentions that much more suffering could be eliminated by banning the McNugget." Via finn. Bonus points for name checking The Power Broker.

This Hurts

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Originally uploaded by bckspcr.

Perhaps more embarassing is that I didn't know I was being flickrd.

Relationshapes

IMDB and Werner Herzog

In the past, I have given Adriana a hard (Adriana, reading over my shoulder (by invitation) interjects: "a REALLY hard time") about her love for the Internet Movie Database message boards (Adriana interjects: "Forums.")

But now, after reading a wonderful thread about the film Incident at Loch Ness, I have come to understand the magic of these boards. An argument about whether or not Werner Herzog's body of work fits the formal definition of pretentious segues seamlessly into a list of the 50 greatest actors of all time. Werner Herzog is #29 on that list.

Before I knew it, I found myself reading "Lightsaber v.s. adamantium" with a little too much interest. Please allow me the indulgence of curating:

kind of a stupid question as adamantium is supposedly the strongest metal on earth, yet the lightsaber is far superior technology that nothing in the galaxy could overcome. one planet v. uncountable planets... not fair or a feasible match, lets keep seperate fictional universes seperate

also...

i always assumed the lightsaber grew in strength depending on the strength of the person that weilded it.so if you have say old school skywalker vs modern skywalker (which is the younger skywalker to old school who is actually younger in terms of the films graphics to older) [[help]] , i would say old school would cut through wolverine like butter, new school would prolly just start screamin noooooooooooooooooo.
omg i am a dork.

Adriana (last interjection) "Just like that line in Galaxy Quest...."

Links and Blogging

I have been guest blogging over at Kottke.org, the weblog manifestation of my friend Jason Kottke. He left us with the promise: "When I get back, House on Fire!" What does that mean? I hope he doesn't expect to return to a burned down blog!

Thank you for the feedback on my punctuation, and for the link suggestions. For those of you asking for more (!?) links, I suggest the new sidebar at Mule Design, or my own (still unfinished) reblog. If you *really* like links, then I suggest checking out Eyebeam's my.reblog software, where you can try out the reblog interface.

April is

April is
Originally uploaded by Lady Macabea.