This week I’m peeved about the point-of-sale quiz. I saw an extreme example of it the other day when I got my haircut. The woman ahead of me, escorting her son, got the quiz when she arrived. She was asked to provide her name, the child’s name, their address, her phone number, and a zip [...]
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We don’t have the political will (or money) to build a train that goes halfway across the Florida peninsula. China is preparing to build (and finance) a train that runs from London to Beijing. “Railway passengers will be able to travel from King’s Cross to Beijing in just two days on a journey that would [...] (via Xark) The Cult of Done Manifesto 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. No pictures yet, but I want to welcome young Taliarose to the world. You’re gonna be an awesome mama, MC! B. C. Manion at 83 Degrees reports on some green businesses in Tampa. “Jennifer Dutkowsky, founder of Why Not Boutique at 3217A S. MacDill Ave., in south Tampa, says she opened her shop in November 2008, after sensing a need in the market. “‘Tampa – it’s headed toward green, but it’s not green,’ Dutkowsky says. “Items at her [...] It’s time to start planning some kids activities for the summer. Tampa Theatre hosts a kids film camp throughout the summer. You can sign up for different ages, different classes and different times. Check out their web page for complete details. “At Tampa Theatre Film Camp, students will create live action and stop motion animation movies [...] Creative Loafing kicks off their annual tournament food competition. This year is the search for Tampa’s best ribs. First round voting in the Tournament of Ribs ends Monday, so get your votes in. *** CL also has top-notch food historian Andrew Huse writing about Tampa’s [hot as the] devil crab. *** Grid 57 (a hyperlocal crime-watch blog for Tampa’s [...] I couldn’t think of a peeve this week so I asked my Facebook friends for some of their peeves. JD doesn’t like it when people use too many question marks and misused apostrophes bother SB. CP thinks that when you’re in a public bathroom you should have the decency to do a courtesy flush. LR does not [...] The Seminole Heights Sunday Market returns this Sunday, March 14 from 9am – 2pm. “Centrally located and set on the front lawn of historic Hillsborough High School, you will find between 60 & 80 vendors selling a vast mixture of local, handmade and/or homemade products.” A sample of what you will find this Sunday: Conventional & Hydroponic Produce I have mentioned several times my unnatural love of Auto-Tune. Here’s Know Your Meme explaining the history of Auto-Tune with Professor Al Yankovic. Adam Fritz, a blogger at Tampa’s Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) points to this video about seedbombing. via Wikipedia - “Seed bombing, also known as “Seed Grenades” is a technique of introducing vegetation to arid soils or otherwise inhospitable terrains. A seed bomb is a compressed clod of soil containing live vegetation that may be thrown or [...] If the Alaska Permanent Fund is good enough for Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters and Alaska’s libertarian population, why isn’t it good for the rest of America? If we take Republican leaders at their word, the states are supposed to be laboratories of liberty, each trying their own strategies of improving the general welfare, [...] The Official Unofficial Seminole Heights blog notes that Smokin A’s BBQ recently opened at the corner of Florida and Hanna. Yum. *** Speaking of new restaurants, it’s now official. The Refinery has replaced the Bungalow Bistro. The new owners kept the name and menu for a couple of weeks while they planned their renovation, ordered signage, and [...] In my re/created Tampa the city uses lace fence when they have to put up chain link fencing. I’m really digging these corkscrew benches at the Una Hotel Vittoria in Florence. They sure would look cool at bus stops around Tampa.
via Tripadvisor Elinor Ostrom is one of my intellectual heroes. She recently won the Nobel Prize in economics for her research on common property and cooperation. She’s interviewed at Yes! Magazine. “Elinor: Well, I don’t see the human as hopeless. There’s a general tendency to presume people just act for short-term profit. But anyone who knows about small-town [...] 100,000 Garages is an effort to create a network of fabbers. Check out their “Our Big Idea!” page for an explanation. During the presidential debates Tom Brokaw asked the candidates if they thought “economic, environmental, and energy challenges” would best be solved by a Manhattan Project-style effort, or 100,000 garages across America independently generating ideas [...] Buzz Aldrin hooks up with Snoop. All I really want to share is the title of this post and the image below, but I suppose I should put it into some context. The folks at Fast Company learned that hot dogs are the “perfect plug for a child’s airway,” and decided to design a new hot dog delivery system.
Fast Company’s Hot [...] JB’s favorite Mighty Boosh song. (I have too many to count.) Cheese is a kind of meat We are in the middle of a manufacturing revolution. For those involved in this revolution, and those who watch culture along the fringes, this is old news. Mainstream America and policy makers, however, seem to be completely unaware of the revolution taking place.
Logo created by Conal for the Ryerson and Western Online Journalism students [...] Hmmm, independent research consistently shows that cell phones increase the risk of tumors and cancer. Fortunately, research by the cell phone industry shows there is no risk! Whew, that was close. Christopher Ketcham has a great article in GQ about the controversy surrounding cell phones. Increasingly, the evidence is confirming that cell phones are a real [...] Tampa ranks dead last in Forbes’s ranking of cities for commuting. Miami is sixth worst and Orlando comes in at fourth worst. “Tampa, Fla., comes in dead last. In fact many of the cities near the bottom of the list are in steamy Southeastern locales; the year-round swelter in these places may not be incidental to [...] A “deep geologic repository” is a place to store high-level nuclear waste. There are a lot of plans for such repositories around the world, but currently none exist. While there are places that collect nuclear waste, none of them are considered permanent storage spaces. 10,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste are generated around the globe each [...] I have a deep, unnatural love for auto-tuning. Here’s a clip of various scientists, explaining science, auto-tuned. As Richard Dawkins says “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.” “The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science [...] What if your business or organization is already on Facebook and you didn’t put it there? Visual Alliance Media has some great tips on how to handle fake Facebook pages. First, don’t panic. Second, don’t assume the worst. They may be fans and happy to turn over the reins. “Fake groups, pages and profiles have [...] I caught The Odd Couple (1968) the other night and it reminded me of a pet peeve. During the opening sequence, Felix (Jack Lemmon) is wandering the streets of New York, depressed, lonely, and contemplating suicide. At one point he goes into a bar to order a drink. The bar has nearly naked go-go dancers [...] Mark Menjivar traveled the US for three years taking photographs of the insides of people’s refrigerators. This refrigerator study is a fascinating glimpse into the American diet. “You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States. For three years I traveled around the [...] |
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