hello typepad

Bush flies over disaster area - Aug 31, 2005

Bush flies over disaster area - "It's Bad..."

Bush, who may visit the area later in the week, cut short his working vacation in Texas by two days...

Vice President Dick Cheney participated in the video conference from Wyoming, and White House chief of staff Andy Card was on line from Maine.

Nice to know they're on the job.

Cat Hill

All about "Still Hunt," the panther sculpture that encourages runners up Cedar "cat" Hill, and her sculptor Edwared Kemeys:

Kemey’s smaller bronze castings of animals gained the attention of the Art Institute of Chicago, which in May 1885 mounted a special exhibition of his work entitled “Wild Animals and Indians.” Through his affiliation with the Institute, he received the commission to sculpt the lions that flank the entrance of the museum; they were unveiled on May 10, 1894. The bronze statues were based on earlier models Kemeys displayed at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago the previous year.

Inspired by ipalimpsest.

Racism - viewed 13000 times on Flickr

Racism
Originally uploaded by dustin3000.

Here someone took two screenshots of Yahoo! and juxtaposed them on Flickr (a Yahoo! property) and they've already been seen 13,000 times. Say what you will about those companies, but that's a lot of conversation.

UPDATE: Here's my copy of the image, since the original user took it down. The image was viewed on flickr well over 50,000 times. Of course this is contreversial, but this would be worth it if someone was inspired take an inventory of all the images and captions that went over the AP wire.

lifeblog: what strange

"Jesus Park" asks "What strange world are we living in?"

camron's pink as cute, "street art" trumping graf, ashton kutcher as cool, japanese fashionistas, art rags, racing for originality in ring tones (?!), complex magazines, williamsburg (and gentrification spreading like cancer), fiction about cripplingly nerdy awkward white guys at play with language yet engaged with nothing. hipsters, wtf.

Downhill Battle's DJ Z-Trip Interview

Link: Downhill Battle - DJ Z-Trip Interview.

When youy are a year late on linking to a story, it's new again.

Susan's Nutrition Weblog

I've been enjoying Henry Abott's True Hoop basketball weblog, mostly because he's a Blazers fan and a stats head both. Before I read True Hoop I was stuck trolling around the abysmal oregon"live" web site for Blazers news.

I've also been enjoying Susan's nutrition weblog. Susan is a vegan dietitian (two ts!) in New York City who gets twice her daily recommended dosage of protein. She is taking nutrition questions from friends and enemies. I've got one!

Susan mentions that it's important to eat carbs within a half hour of finishing strenuous exercise. I've heard this about carbs and proteins both. On True Hoop, Abbott wrote a series of posts investigating the nutritional value of gatorade as a recovery drink. Also, how to clean it up.

So my question for Susan is: what is the best food or drink to have after a run or workout? I personally love Gatorade, but I'm ready to be convinced otherwise.

West street

Sat 27/08/2005 21:30

Movable Type 3.2 released

Caption contest! Oh yeah, Movable Type 3.2 is out.

Jason Kottke: These are the people in my (Web) neighborhood

I've found the recent "ethical" discussion around selling spammy ads frustrating. Loosening the definition of what is and isn't spam is an extremely slippery slope. Jason hits the nail on the head in his post "These are the people in my (Web) neighborhood":

Me? I tend to think I need Google to be as good a search engine as it can be and if I can help in some small way, I'm going to. As corny as it sounds, I tend to think of the sites I frequent as my neighborhood

When you build a business or a community on the principles of Open Source and "Web 2.0" style ethics and then turn around and sell page rank to the highest bidder, it's a bait and switch. Nothing more, nothing less. People need to stop it.

Cat Pictures!!!

Sam Wants a Home
Originally uploaded by Lady Macabea.

We're trying to find a home for "Sam" before the cold weather comes. (I'm allergic, otherwise we'd keep her ourselves).

If you don't want a cat, you can still check out these cute cat pictures.