Boxy Jewels

I’m such an artist wanna-be. I’m desperate to find something, anything, which would justify buying “these jewel cases”:http://www.jewelboxing.com/. Of all the times I needed a band!

Linkies: Carfree Cities

As a guy who spends 3 hours a day schlepping to work and back, I’m interested in anything that makes transit faster or more convenient. According to J.H. Crawford’s wonderful book “Carfree Cities”:http://www.carfree.com/book/, designing cities around people instead of cars doesn’t just reduce the time we spend getting from point A to point B, [...]

forÍt des morts

If I were to be buried, “Capsula Mundi”:http://capsulamundi.com/ would be my choice of venue. Hopefully it will be commonplace in a hundred years.
Does this remind anyone else of the “Piggies”:http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/speaker.shtml?

Linkies: Fafblog!

I’m reading “Fafblog!”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/ Are you reading Fafblog? No? Look closer. There! You were reading Fafblog all along.
“!/images/sticker-fafblog.png 80×15!”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/
_[This is part of a new series showcasing the sidebar links. I know I'm repeating myself, but isn't it better than ranting about the elections? -Ed.]_

How to make your plants sing

I bet it was unrelenting brown thumbery and general frustration with the higher-level voodoo that is biochemistry that led these engineers to master their foliage in ways no horticulturist, nor the foliage itself, could have ever imagined. The hills really could be alive with the sound of music.

Monumental failure

“Talking Points Memo”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ has an excellent article on “why W and Kerry are still neck-and-neck in the polls”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_12.php#003465 despite W’s disastrous policies in Iraq becoming more obviously disastrous each day.
_Bush has sought — with real success — to edge Iraq out of the campaign dialogue by putting the issue back on to Kerry, asking [...]

Follow That Rabbit . . .

. . . and take a vacation! This is what should have been through the looking glass.
Anyway, it sounds like a cool bed and breakfast. Think they have an opium room? Oh, so it’s not that part of the book . . .

A silly question

If we’re supposed to be done “liberating” Iraq, then why are we “still bombing it”:http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040909_627.html?

Dog Shoots Man

In self defense! Take that, you big jerk!

Rock and Roll, Baby!

We had a small shake up today as I was sitting in our winemaker’s second story office in Yountville. Yep, we looked up at each other stupidly, mouths ajar — such a useful reaction!!
However, the happy result is that I discovered this awesome website for the USGS! It had the quake [...]