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30 May 2008
“City Arts & Lectures” meets “The 29 Day Giving Challenge”
I just bought a series of tickets to City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco this fall: this particular program is 9 lectures called the “Literary Series” which benefit 826 Valencia which helps kids 6-18 with their writing skills started by Dave Eggers.
I also just joined up with the 29 Day Giving Challenge. There […]
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28 May 2008
DIY
Interesting confluence of sudden press coverage:
65,000 (!!!) people came to the 3rd annual Marker Faire in early May. It garnered the attention of such diverse sources as The Economist and Rob Forbes (of DWR).
The Economist calls it “it is a gathering of geeks, but with the addition of do-it-yourself enthusiasts, back-yard scientists, garage tinkerers, artists […]
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22 May 2008
microfiber
“It’s one of the greenest products out there. From the research we’ve done, microfiber cleans and removes dirt and bacteria with water alone. You do not need chemicals…”
“…cleaning my house exclusively with microfiber would obliterate the costs and the storage space demanded by a massive array of task-specific chemicals and applicators I no longer needed.”
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20 May 2008
TuneGlue
Poached from “Very Short List“:
“The site bills itself as a “relationship explorer.” Type in the name of a musical artist you like, hit expand, and a cluster of similar-in-feel artists will appear — each linkable to another five or six to discover. Sure, we get why a search for Radiohead would give us Arcade […]
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19 May 2008
Bontecou…
Lee Bontecou: A tiny woman who makes fierce, often menacing sculptures as a visceral response to the world as she found it (i.e. anger about human conflict, the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, modern weapons and gear, humans intersecting with machines, the destruction of the environment). She retired from the art world as […]
