Someone better alert the Sea Shepherds: Pro-whaling nations have won their first vote towards the resumption of commercial whaling for 20 years. The meeting of the International Whaling Commission backed the declaration by a majority of just one. Anti-whaling countries say they will challenge the outcome, which Japan has described as “historic”. But pro-whaling nations […]
Didn’t (quite) forget this time: Mark Rothko Red, Orange, Tan, and Purple, 1949 Oil on canvas 84 1/2 x 68 1/2 inches (214.5 x 174 cm) Private collection ©1999 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The fine folks at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School who host this blog have enabled Flash, which means I can finally embed audio and video. First up is a very unmixed track from RecKlez‘s concert live from Winthrop House, which followed the Arab Jewish Falafel Social, hosted by the […]
19-year-old Chris Jackson has been writing a blog called the Ford Report dedicated to electing Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. the next Senator from Tennessee for almost a year. On Tuesday, in a post entitled “Blogging For Bryant & NRSC Running Deficit Of Ideas; Resorts To Lying,” Jackson observed: Once again, Blogging for Bryant and the […]
So says Eric Alterman: You know, with Zarqawi dead, —not that he was ever what they said he was or couldn’t have been gotten before— and a new cabinet in place —not that it can be expected to last— and Bush’s popularity on an uptick —not that it exceeds the poll’s margin of error— and […]
Maybe this explains all those tourists in Harvard Yard. (To see actual episodes, search YouTube.) Love story in Harvard OST – Special Luxury Booklet Package (SBS TV Series) ~ Korean TV Series Soundtrack This product is out of print and no longer available from the publisher. Customer Rating: (22) [ View all | Write a […]
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Update: Benjamin Brigit-Fishbein has confirmed our friendship on facebook. I hope he doesn’t mind me reposting a tiny bit of his profile: I’ll say. The Brown Daily Herald has more.
This weeks’s word of the week is “confabulate” (by way of Ha’aretz). Definition #2 is the more interesting one: con·fab·u·late (kən-făb‘yə-lāt‘) intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. To talk casually; chat. Psychology. To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. [Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk […]
And I thought I was alone. Turns out there’s yet another blog covering the race in CA-26: In 2004, Dreier outspent Matthews 50 to 1 yet received the lowest percentage of the vote during any of his elections since 1980. 2006 is the year to remove him from Congress. Click here, here and here to […]