December 2009
23 posts
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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LA Times: Investors see farms as way to grow... →
Acres of vacant land are eyed for urban agriculture under an ambitious plan that aims to turn the struggling Rust Belt city into a green mecca.
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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To Save the Planet, Save the Seas  →
Few people may realize it, but in addition to producing most of the oxygen we breathe, the ocean absorbs some 25 percent of current annual carbon dioxide emissions. Half the world’s carbon stocks are held in plankton, mangroves, salt marshes and other marine life.
Dec 27th
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“My bag is so fucking big I could smuggle small Asian children in it!”
– some trashy Jersey girl, Barnes and Noble, Hackensack, NJ
Dec 27th
Christmas chatter
me: starbucks is open!
Brian: YEAYEYAEYAYEYAYE
me: you doing anything today?
Brian: eating with family and hanging out with girl
Brian: that i feel once a week
Brian: you?
Brian: (was making christmas cards)
Brian: oh shoot
Brian: i mean FEEDD
Brian: FEED*
Brian: i swear
Brian: FEED!
Dec 25th
Dec 25th
750 Words →
rstadler: Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head….
Dec 25th
Plants Want to Live, Too →
…before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot. This is not meant as a trite argument or a chuckled aside. Plants are lively and seek to keep it that way.
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Extreme diver Norbert Wu's journey into the... →
These stunning images show the results of one man’s 400 hours of swimming in the coldest waters in the world.
Dec 10th
The Facts About Bottled Water →
(via twobrain)
Dec 10th
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The Little Prince →
English language version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince
Dec 1st
Le Petit Prince →
Full online text, in French and Spanish, of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic Le Petit Prince
Dec 1st
Feast by Matt Zoller Seitz - Moving Image Source →
rstadler: A third possibility might be that the proliferation of food films (and food culture) is a collective, unconscious reaction to the gradual splintering of society in the postwar, post-industrial,…
Dec 1st