This post is not going to make sense to anyone who doesn’t both have a blog and post photos to Flickr. Several dozen (or hundred, or thousand, or hundred-thousand) people on Flickr are either really ticked off at me, or they know that I’ve been revealed as a completely clueless user of the WordPress plugin, Photo Album. Or both I didn’t configure it right, and through a series of accidents and misunderstandings, people started complaining yesterday in at least two well-traveled and high traffic forums connected to a couple of large photo groups on Flickr. People were yelling for my…
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Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio This week we bring you an award-winning world premiere: Rebecca Sheirs The End as Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death. The trilogy blends interviews, personal reflections, and music, and focuses on death and the Jewish tradition. The work is an explanation, an illustration, and an investigation all in one — and it balances these elements so beautifully that "Honoring the Body: Taharah" the second segment won the 2006 Third Coast Festival Directors Choice Award. I have experienced some of the things described in Part One as a…
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CES: Cheesy Finds at Innovations Plus: A prototype hands-free mouse from Foottime, on sale in a couple of months. Simply place your foot in the slipper and trigger buttons with your other foot, leaving your hands completely free. Suggested use, says the manufacturer, includes "extra arm to shoot with. Bang" Would that be the "short arm" of British Naval yore? Then better get this other item from the same part of the exhibition:
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Salt Lake Tribune – Republican prepares bill for demise of Roe v. Wade If someone directly challenges Roe v. Wade . . . And if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses more than 30 years of legal precedent . . . State Rep. Paul Ray wants Utah to be ready. Ray is sponsoring a so-called “trigger law” that would go into effect if the landmark abortion rights case is overturned. House Bill 235 would ban all abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to prevent a womans death or “serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily…
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What I Did Over Christmas Vacation « Missed Manners At least three. These folks need to hook up with Fellowship of the Peep for the next candy "movie," when they re-create Minas Tirith Via BoingBoing.
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Barbara Boxer should apologize for nothing | TPMCafe How did I find out that Sen. Barbara Boxer is this week's right-wingnut pundit punching bag over her challenge to Condoleeza Rice's Iraq testimony? Because the scrolling underline on FOXNews in the health club yesterday was "BOXER ATTACKS RICE." As TPM notes, Boxer was attempting to imply that neither she nor Secretary Rice had "skin in the game" in the Iraq war, but the Right bloviation machine is trumpeting it as an attack on a noble, accomplished, hard-working "single childless woman." Make no mistake, the same people would be attacking her if…
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One of these top ten images taken through the Hubble telescope is going to be my new desktop image. I had been using one that's a color-enhanced shot of the full moon. My husband's first words on seeing them: "Whoa." Via Dave :: Eye in the sky
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Made it to the end of the first week in the 6-week “quick start” fitness program more or less in one piece. The way this will work is that I’ll go as much as possible during the work week at the “office” health club, and then hope to hit Bally’s once during the weekend. I still need to get to the health club early enough to allow me a 45 minute workout with a 30 minute shower-and-change, but wasn’t able to carve out that much time as yet. Still, I managed to get 25 minutes at least, 4 times this…
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Bangladesh Declares State Of Emergency, Weeks Of Violent Protests Prompt Leader To React, Cast Doubt On Upcoming Election – CBS News (tags: Unrest Bangladesh) The Vermont Country Store – affordable wide calf dress boots (tags: WideCalf Boots) Step up Comfor Plus-calf Leather Boot at Lane Bryant (tags: boots)
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NPR : U.S. Detains 6 Iranians in Irbil Raid Bush's new strategy, however, ignores key recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which in December called for a new diplomatic offensive and an outreach to Syria and Iran. Instead, the president accused both countries of aiding terrorists and insurgents in Iraq. "We will disrupt the attacks on our forces," Bush said. "We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria." Audio of speech plays under sweetened video of the exercise. Meanwhile, video of Syrian government officials making conciliatory statements about a more cooperative relationship with the Americans is being cued up…