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I hate Five Points, although I no longer live in Wilton Manors. It’s one of the most annoying intersections, whether or not it’s really dangerous. On each street, you need to be in the proper lane to either continue straight or turn left or right, so people either scramble at the last minute to get in the correct lane, or turn from the wrong lane.
But to be honest, Buddhism had always intrigued me. Not so much the reincarnation aspects, but more into the meditative and introspective nature of it. And I’ve already proven to myself that I can’t find the inner peace I want through the material world. [Homotextual]
I’ve been stumbling towards Buddhism most of my life, but I’ve never actually taken the step. I’ve always been very vocal about my non-belief in the judeo/christian/muslim god and my dislike for those beliefs.
This is becoming my favorite online hangout. An intelligent flame-free message board.
I’m looking at the logs for macmegasite.com & I see www.variety.com listed in the referrers. I wonder why they linked to us?
This is just TOO weird. If I tried to put one of those things on Cody, he’d rip me to shreds.
You need to dress a cat. And you will say to a cat together with a family. “It has changed just for a moment”. [ “it being very dear” or ] You will pass pleasant one time. Costumes for your cat + some great Engrish. (via Boing Boing.) [metafilter.com]
WTF???? Starbucks won’t allow you to photograph their stores?
From Aaron Swartz:
Lessig reports that Starbucks is asking people not to take pictures of its environment.
Your mission? Take a photo, then post a link to it.
This exhortation to commit contributory trade dress infringement will self-destruct in…
I don’t know how it happened, but the stray somehow got in through the patio screen and is now inside my patio. Cody seems to be getting along OK with him.
Update: I just noticed there’s a hole in the screen he was able to get through easily.
“Mom” suddenly reappeared out of nowhere when people (including me) started raising money for her sons. According to some accounts, when he saw her for the first time at the trial, Alex asked “who’s the blond chick?”.
(PENSACOLA, Fla.) May 21 – Kelly Marino came to Pensacola for her sons’ trials, but now she is also behind bars for fraud. Now authorities say Alex and Derek King’s mother was using a false name.
Janet Lyttle — a.k.a. Kelly Marino — is imprisoned in Lexington, Kentucky, at the Fayette County Detention Center accused of trying to draw Terry King’s Social security benefits.
Fayette County Attorney Margaret Kannensohn told NBC 15 News Lyttle collected thousands of dollars after misleading the Social Security Administration as to her relationship with 13-year-old Alex and 14-year-old Derek.
“She indicated to them that the children were in her care, custody, and control, which would’ve been the only way she would’ve been able to obtain benefits on their behalf,” explained Kannensohn.
Ultimately, the Social Security Administration realized that not only were the boys not living with Lyttle, they were incarcerated for murdering the very person whose benefits their mother was apparently collecting in their name.
“One should not benefit from taking the life of another in any way, shape, or form,” said Kannensohn.
Lyttle initially snatched the spotlight from her boys when she appeared in their Pensacola courtroom seemingly out of thin air after having left when Alex was four and Derek five.
Prosecutors say Lyttle cashed four checks, collecting in excess of $13,000.
“The New York Times had this anti-traditional values article” (actual article link) [Daypop Top 40]
I find it very disturbing that Wal-Mart is shaping cultural tastes. They sell less than 2000 books, CDs, and Videos with only the biggest selling titles represented. By doing so they make the big hits even bigger while making it more difficult for independent titles to sell. I own almost no Top-40 albums; almost all of the CDs I own are from indie labels and lesser-known artists. When I shop for DVDs, I like to browse the foreign & indie films, not the big blockbusters. I hope the little guys can survive.
I think I may have found the longest track available for individual sale in iTMS: O.D.O.O. by Fela Kuti, at 31:54. I bought it, since it’s a great song and one of the few songs by Fela I don’t own (not counting a 6 minute edit version from a “best of…” collection).