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A news update on the situation with the empty lot adjacent to Sci-Arc (incidentally, also my backyard at the moment). The lot was fenced off by the developer currently trying to buy it as retaliation for Sci-Arc suing them to try and stop the sale of the land the school occupies. This screws the whole local community (by eliminating parking and direct access to local cafes) and brings me the delightful sound of workers jackhammering fence-posts into concrete all morning. Nice. Article is in the Downtown News here.

Here is a fun toy to play with – looptracks – fiddle with it for a bit, and dig the vectory slidey goodness.

Ho Boy… one of the dumbest things I have heard of… Chevy introduces a “hybrid”electric gasoline version of their Silverado truck. Idiots can feel good paying more for their “green” truck and flip people the finger as they say proudly “Yeah, well f* you, my SUV gets a fantastic 17 miles to the gallon.”

Ho Boy… one of the dumbest things I have heard of… Chevy introduces a “hybrid”electric gasoline version of their Silverado truck. Idiots can feel good paying more for their “green” truck and flip people the finger as they say proudly “Yeah, well f* you, my SUV gets a fantastic 17 miles to the gallon.”

Michele and I are back from a 10 day trip back to the east where we witnessed by brother’s marriage to the fabulous Sarah Kinsman. The ceremony was beautiful, with quite a large posse of various Quinn and Kinsman relatives and friends in attendance. Got many photos to put up from that, as well as side trips to Fort Revere and Indian Well State Park – so as soon as our shoddy DSL connection is back up again, we will post em.

Congrats to Nate and Sarah, hope you are not getting too sunburned in St. Martin!!!!!

So this is why Bush and his followers want a destabilized Middle East…Their beliefs are bonkers…

Don’t forget tonight:

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Found an important news source that claims to “offer our readers a unique and accurate map of how the world works, unfiltered by preconception or ideology.” Read the latest article COUP D’ETAT Michael C. Ruppert explains “The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA…”

David Horvitz sent me a link to his latest project, Memories of Amache. Normally I do not have the patience to read much online, but the subject matter and combination of images and text, even with some of the typos, kept my attention. I am reminded of my brief trip to the Japanese American National Museum, and how just standing in the reconstructed barracks from an internment camp I was overwhelmed with grief, as if I could feel the collective memory of pain that had become embedded in the structure. Although we debated this at the museum, the internment of the Japanese Americans is not unlike that of the Jews by the Nazis, and not unlike what had the potential to happen to the American Muslims after September 11th. I have been reading Avishai Marglit‘s The Ethics of Memory which explores the “healing power of the truth in the case of communal memories.” Maybe David has read this too.