TerrieMiller.com
The Subconscious Brain – Who’s Minding the Mind? – New York Times
(tags: psychology brain)
KnittingHelp.com : Learn to Knit
Recommended by Sarah Breen — looks like a great way to learn. Not sure I really want to knit, just like the idea of making gifts ‘n stuff that are actually useful.
(tags: knitting crafts howto toview)
The Man [...]
BackYardChickens.com – Raise Chickens, Build Chicken Coops, Hatch Eggs
Forums look really valuable for info on various things.
(tags: chickens food sustainability)
Geek.Farm.Life Podcast
“Two geeks move to rural Indiana…what could go wrong?” Interesting podcast from a couple with a hobby farm in northern Indiana.
(tags: rural farm)
downshiftme.com – downshifting from the UK to Nova Scotia, Canada
Podcast from [...]
No Sympathy for You
Article about Long Gone John putting his record label, Sympathy for the Record Industry, up for sale (or possible trade for llamas). Hilarious quotes.
(tags: music interviews)
The Myth, the Math, the Sex – New York Times
I have a feeling that there’s something fishy about assertions in here, possibly related to equating “median” [...]
Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
From A List Apart
(tags: writing toread)
Jung: Marriage as a Psychological Relationship
More Jung to read; looks like the entire Anima and Animus might be here, too.
(tags: jung psychology toread)
X – “White Girl”
(tags: music x punk video)
William Gibson’s Book Tour…”William Gibson slept here”
As he says, “The best-looking part of a book tour”
(tags: humor scifi [...]
I couldn’t find these lyrics anywhere, so I transcribed them myself a few months ago and thought I’d post them out into the wild in case someone else is looking.
Every Mother’s Son [Demo], from “Pirate Radio“, the Pretenders box set.
I was born with my hand in a fist
and my eyes shut tight.
Any wonder that [...]
The Day After Tomorrow….Only Hot!
From The Science Friday Blog: If you woke up this morning to trains, subways, and highways being flooded – like most NYC and Burbs folks did – you may be part of the first symptoms of global warming.
(tags: globalwarming climatechange weather)
Mind Hacks: Excellent BBC Brain Story series available online
(tags: toview brain [...]
Previously: Thursday: Last Day
As an unsophisticated writer, I make a lot of mistakes; the obvious mistake in writing about my stay at Green Gulch Farm is that a simple narrative…this happened, then this happened…doesn’t serve the experience well, and I haven’t been skillful about bringing some of the other elements into this story. (The [...]
Summer Greens Pasta with Garlicky Mustard Butter
Might be a good way to use swiss chard.
(tags: recipe greens pasta)
How children lost the right to roam in four generations
Very similar to concepts in “Last Child in the Woods”
(tags: ecology future naturedeficitdisorder)
Justin asks, So this seems to be the core set of things one needs to get started (car camping) without going overboard. Am I missing anything obvious?
I don’t see anything obvious in the way of major equipment, but it makes me think that our detailed car camping checklist might be helpful to someone. Here’s [...]
Petaluma Chicken Promotional Film
Strange promotional film for the Petaluma poultry industry in 1932. My those are nice white eggs, girls!
(tags: humor petaluma eggs poultry)
Investment Spreadsheet 2.0
Illustration of how to get to FU money.
(tags: money retirement)
5min – A dance lesson by James Brown – Video
(tags: dance jamesbrown entertainment fun)
