December 2010
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Breaking Habits, Brand New Year →
fightwithknives reminds me of that Jean-Luc Godard quote: “The way to criticize a movie is to make another movie.” Go, Deb! Go, Twin Cities Runoff!
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Thanks to The New Standards and The Current, I have a sort of mashup of “Toxic” and “The New Pollution” stuck in my head. “Too high, can’t come down; it’s in the air, and it’s all around… She’s alone in the—”
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A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation →
Interesting. “‘We spend all this time thinking about cities in terms of their local details, their restaurants and museums and weather,’ West says. ‘I had this hunch that there was something more, that every city was also shaped by a set of hidden laws.’” So he went looking for them.
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Awesome! The Bad Plus is playing for free at the Electric Fetus on Monday! I sure would go to that if I hadn’t just bought a $36 ticket to see them at the Dakota that same night!
I guess I still might go to that.
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“I think members of Congress (and to some extent, the political media) want us to...”
– Kay at Balloon Juice, “A Deal?”
(via Jay Carlson)
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Giving is personal. Make it political. →
“Charities that work to make the government’s policies better have a unique ability to take small investments and turn them into tremendous outcomes. If you’re looking for bang for your philanthropic buck, they’re the place to start.” Ezra Klein explains why and how.
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“Maybe it will be like an intensified version of the Internet I already live in,...”
– Zadie Smith, writing about Facebook and The Social Network, tells me something I didn’t know about being famous today
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“In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is...”
– Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
(via Jay Carlson and Digby)
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Tax "compromise" would actually raise taxes for... →
mnpublius:
Under the new bill, the rich would once again get larger tax breaks. Anyone making less than $30,000 per year, on the other hand, would actually see their taxes increase.
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“I know multiple people who moved to Minneapolis and left it because of...”
– shanai-matteson:
Urbanophile assesses the social landscape of the Twin Cities and finds a few things worth thinking about. Those of you who have lived here: what do you think? Are we really such a hard bunch to get to know?
Ask me in a year. I grew up in Minnesota (not the metro area), but...
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"In fact, as often as not, the Democratic nominee... →
fightwithknives:
Anyway, we probably lost that bid because of that whole “collapsing stadium roof” thing, even though our competitors are Cleveland, Charlotte, and St. Louis.
I can’t decide whether losing the DNC would be an up side or a down side to the Metrodome collapse.
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Why Doesn't Someone Tell You to Drive Less? →
“When you become a new parent you are told many things. ‘By far the biggest killer of children is car crashes’ isn’t one of them….”
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Café Finspang, according to Metromix →
“Café Finspang is a true Scandanavian bakery and store among the Mexican tortas, Nepalese yak curry and Middle Eastern falafel at the Midtown Global Market. If you’re a native Minnesotan, Finspang seems much more familiar than most of the other restaurants here.”
That is, unless you’re a native Minnesotan whose family is Mexican, Nepalese, or Middle Eastern. Anyway,...
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Using Waste, Swedish City Shrinks Its Fossil Fuel... →
The region best known for Absolut uses “essentially” no fossil fuels for heat, relying instead on “ingredients like potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines.”
“Once the city fathers got into the habit of harnessing power locally, they saw fuel everywhere: Kristianstad also burns gas emanating from an old landfill and sewage ponds, as...
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Regarding the Eastside Food Co-op birthday party, let’s just say I earned my 5% discount.
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1419 needs your help. →
I’ve never been to an event at 1419 (“a student-run interdisciplinary art space and residency devoted to the creation and exhibition of experimental projects”), but I want to, so I just chipped in $10 for their rent. I bet their rent is more than $10, though.
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Happy Birthday Eastside Food Co-op! | Eastside... →
This Saturday: farmers market, Friends of the Library book sale, Recovery Bike Shop preview, and cake! I will go to this.
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“While many think of the group as just another charity, in truth the group is a...”
– Article: Why you shouldn’t give to the Salvation Army this holiday season (via swirlspice)
Now I feel bad about that office chair I bought for $10. But only kind of bad, because I bought an office chair for $10.
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