March 2010
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Making Music: Dave King | Walker Channel →
Topics include inspiration, the virtues of bands, being those guys from Minneapolis, and the problem with Dan Brown.
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Access to medical care is not 'candy' or an... →
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Because everybody cares about my Tumblelog, an announcement: I’ve just spent a bunch of time redesigning my Tumblelog.
Because everybody cares about me, there’s more about me in it. And there’s a list of stuff I’ve “liked”. And you can finally link to individual posts if you want to see Tumblr stuff like notes and tags. It’s almost like a real blog!
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“Natural seems so
Innocent, then you realize
Mercury is too”
– Michael O’Brien’s greenwashing haiku
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“America is a can-do country. We’ve got to take the lead to explore energy...”
– The Christian Coalition, endorsing Lindsay Graham’s (and Kerry and Lieberman’s) cap-and-trade bill
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“Everywhere I met remarkable people, because this is one of the places they like...”
– Roy Edroso on (leaving) New York City
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“Smart growth” is often perceived as an idea about and for cities. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy has a neat alternative in LandOf.org: a matrix of ten smart growth principles crossed with six development types (from urban to rural), with case studies applying each to each.
So Lanesboro (pop. 788) serves as a case study of multimodal transportation in a rural area,...
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Amman Journal - Sidewalks, and an Identity, Sprout... →
In placemaking, small things matter. Like sidewalks, and benches. (via PPS)
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“Why does talking to strangers matter? Every time I do it, it improves my ability...”
– Nina Simon (aka museumtwo), The Magic Vest Phenomenon and Other Wearable Tools for Talking to Strangers
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“We humans are island makers.”
– “Divide and Diminish,” an essay on biodiversity by Olivia Judson
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“‘I’m not going to let it worry me… but you know it’s...”
– Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists - IPS
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“The thing about the current political system is that no matter how much you like...”
– Ezra Klein, Toward better political candidates
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For Bike-Route Mapping, Look Past the Google Buzz. →
One cyclist’s comparison of Google Maps bike directions with Cyclopath, a Twin-Cities-only service run by a U of M research group.
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GREEN GIANT: Beijing’s crash program for clean... →
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an academic of you →
Bobby McFerrin: It’s really been kind of an amazing journey for me because Roger spent a lot of time up in his head deciphering what I was doing, while I’m just floating along and watching things come out without thinking about it. So I spent more time down in my heart, I guess, and he spent a lot of time in his head, so that was kind of the working combination.
Amy Malkoff: So he became an...
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wr3n:
This letter came after I said I’d be at the MSP airport on a layover and wanted to call. If I recall correctly, I did call her. It’s weird to remember when calling people was such a big deal because long distance calls cost so much money.
One time the band from my small-town high school played, I don’t know, a half-time show at the Metrodome or something. All I remember about...
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Woman spends nine years not telling the Air Force she’s gay, then the police come to her house on an unrelated matter, spot her Iowa marriage license through the window, report her to the base, and now she’s a civilian against her will.
Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military
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We filled out our census form but we can’t send it in yet because we don’t know if anyone else will have been staying with us on April 1.
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Oh man do I love these mostly ’30s-inspired fonts from Zapato Productions Interdimensional. (via weworkhere)
(It’s Colin Kloecker appreciation night here on Slapdash. Really this whole week I’ve been restraining myself from reposting his and Shanai Matteson’s blogs wholesale. Thanks, you two!)
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Dream
kristinnicolelewis:
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“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them...”
– Go gentle into that good night - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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“Why should a growing city with high ambitions for sustainability host a big...”
– Human Transit: vancouver: olympic transit payoffs