Temple Grandin

Animals in Translation:

One of the most celebrated and effective animal advocates on the planet, Grandin revolutionized animal movement systems and spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for the cows, pigs, and chickens that Americans eat.

Positive Age Discrimination

Harbor House Nantucket Hotel, Special Rates, Nantucket Vacation Packages:

"50 / 50 Package

The popular 50/50 program is designed for mature travelers, age 50 or more, who can travel from Sunday to Thursday.

From September 5 to October 9, 2005, rates start at $110 per room, per night.

Rates are per room, per night, subject to availability and represent a 50% savings off regular rates. Guests must present photo identification with birth date upon check-in; only one room occupant must be 50 to qualify. Some blackout dates and restrictions apply."

The Age Discrimination Act: Positive Discrimination.

Test your internet connection speed

Speakeasy - Internet Speed Test.

A letter from Michael Moore

A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moore:

"How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?"

Some good TV is coming

Plenty on cable this fall season - Yahoo! News:

"•Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, Sept. 25, 10 p.m.) A 10-episode fix of Larry David for crank addicts.

•Extras (HBO, Sept. 25, 10:30 p.m.)
Ricky Gervais (The Office) hangs from a lower rung of the acting ladder.

•The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, Oct. 17, 11:30 p.m. ET/PT) The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert joins the punditocracy."

PRESIDENT BUSH PLAYS GUITAR

KATRINA TIMELINE.

In Brazil

Folha de S. Paulo: An interview about videoblogging was just published.

You need an account to read it online though.

Listening out the window

Window Standpoint Series:

"Some artists, all over the globe were asked to share their personal window.

They made a few minutes field recording from their everyday soundscape.

At one geographic point, at one moment, they catched the sound environment from their window and made a picture of it."

Here's Dubrovnik by Lou Pestal.
via [ Thinking the university student ]

Did you loose a button maker?

Adam Kalsey's Button Maker makes making blog badge buttons easy.

So easy in fact, that I just made this one:

It's loca NOT local

So in that last post I pointed you to a music label that I just found out about.

Well, it was the wrong label.

It was supposed to be Loca Records, a copyleft label doing electronica, post-rock, anti-folk and weird french electro-classico-stuff!

You know how you grab the domain name off someone's email address to check out their site? I read it wrong.

So now you get a bonus of two new record labels to check out in one day. ;-)

Play this record

Local Records has this cool online record player.

Check it out and listen to Slacks and Sovereigns by Victor Romero Evans.

The Real Thing?

Pavement drawing : Coke bottle

College Class: Videoblogging

Jen Simmons is teaching videoblogging at Temple.

The class: multimedia.05

Follow along...

Andy Hertzfeld on NerdTV

I, Cringely . NerdTV | PBS:

"Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about MacHistory and how he fell in love with Open Source software."

Vlog Soup: Episode 2

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: Vlog Soup: Episode 2:

"Here's a new crop of videoblog posts that I found interesting."

Take a trip with me around the vlogosphere and watch clips from some of my favorite video blogs from the past week.

Balloon Over Boston: NOT

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: The Carol and Steve Show - Episode 37: Summertime Balloon:

"Carol and Steve head into Boston to take a balloon ride, walk over to The Swan Boats of Boston, workout, drive through the theatre district, and then pass by Cheers on their way home."

Adding the Red Cross

The Brian Alvey Weblog shows how to add code to put a Red Cross link on your blog.

Jeff Jarvis is giving to Mercy Corps.

Videoblogging messages by thread

The Mail Archive lets you read Yahoo! Group messages by thread or by date.

Yahoo! Videoblogging Group by Thread.

They got it right the third time

While watching the news tonight I heard three versions of this story.

1. Policemen shot five contactors dead

2. Crazed gunmen shot five contactors dead

3. Five armed thugs shot dead:

BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Five shot dead' in New Orleans:

"New Orleans Deputy Police Chief WJ Riley said the shooting took place while 14 contractors were crossing the Danziger Bridge under police escort.

The contractors came under fire from a group of armed thugs and police officers shot back, killing at least five of them.

None of the contractors was killed."

The Thin Line Blew

The Thin Line Blew - How a hurricane turned citizens into criminals. By William Saletan:

"When I see federal officials bragging that they were well-prepared for Katrina because they've been organizing for terrorist attacks, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. In a terrorist attack, the human dynamics will be far worse. That's why they call it 'terrorism.' The terrorists won't have to inflict most of the deaths directly. They'll just hit us with a dirty bomb to start the panic. We'll do the rest."