Global Spin

Karen, Ben and I are all safe. My work has been “prevacuated” and it’s kinda stinky in my neighborhood, but otherwise we’re unaffected. Lots of friends have been evacuated, though, and the sheriff says it’s going to get worse before it gets better. It’s odd to have victims listed at the medical center down the [...]

Posted by Chris in News on October 22nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »

This makes me happy just by existing. It’s called “A Wicked Deception” and it’s quite fine good.

Posted by Deana in Anthropology, Film, Fun, Language, Oddly Enough on October 19th, 2007 | Comments Off

No, it’s not an Eddie Izzard routine. It’s the U.S. Army assigning social scientists to combat units in Afghanistan, and it’s awesome: [Tracy] is a member of the first Human Terrain Team, an experimental Pentagon program that assigns anthropologists and other social scientists to American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her team’s ability to [...]

Posted by Chris in Anthropology, Oddly Enough, World on October 4th, 2007 | 7 Comments »

You’ve probably seen this already. (I hope you have, because I’d personally make it front-page news all over the country.) The New York Times ran a story yesterday that exposes a secret Justice Department brief endorsing torture, written after the same department publicly denounced the same tactics. When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” [...]

Posted by Chris in Crime, Government on October 4th, 2007 | Comments Off

I recently made a few calling cards for use at the Mars Society convention. I kinda like them, and they come in handy when I want to encourage random people to go to Global Spin: Anyone interested in one of their own? I’d be happy to make up a PDF with your name and globalspin.com [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Making Stuff on October 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »