• Independent Lens . CHAVEZ RAVINE . The History of Chavez Ravine | PBS
  Until 1949, a poor, semi-rural community of Mexican/Americans existed just a few miles from downtown LA. Then, of course, it was torn down to make way for a sports stadium. I think I’d like to get the book that kept Chavez Ravine from being forgotten.
• GoVeg.com // Features // North America’s Most Vegetarian-Friendly Cities! // Portland, Oregon
  No surprise here. Pity they boost the appalling Veganopolis in the writeup though.
• The Martha Stewart of Japan :: Rebecca Blood
  I think the spousal unit owns Harumi’s book.
• Crooked Timber » » Summer Reading for Political Philosophy Students?
  Harry asks CT readers to suggest “papers from the past 30 years that you think everyone who wants to write a dissertation in the area of political philosophy reasonably broadly conceived should have read”.
• Interview: David Attenborough – Sunday Times – Times Online
  “The man is a wonder, a treasure. But, to be honest, he had me at Emmylou Harris.”
• Roadsworth Triumphant
  Update: Roadsworth got a $250 fine and 40 hours’ community service — artwork of his devising in The Plateau area of Montreal. Kudos to the city officials, and to Roadsworth’s supporters (esp. Chris Hand). Here’s how the Montreal Mirror covered the verdict, here’s a gallery of Roadsworth’s art, and here’s everything tagged “roadsworth” at Flickr (Yahoo, hiss, spit).
• The Semiotics of Media
  Introduction to semiotics and media studies.
• This Is Not Sex: A Web Essay on the Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and the Pose
  This is a superb photoessay on images of women and the male gaze. A must-read. Via. “When an accomplished, successful woman poses in this way, then, she is not at all signaling to others that she is actually subordinate. On the contrary, on the surface she is showing that she, too, can be successful in this arena, the arena where the goal is to attract and control the power of the gaze by striking a subordinate pose. And were this an occasional event, if we regularly saw images of women that were of a different sort, the effect might be innocuous.”
• AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Coke Is Death
  I’m pretty sure Coke doesn’t make the two sodas I like (Barg’s Root Beer, Squirt).
• Useful Chem Experiments 1
  This is wonderful: an online lab notebook for an entire lab. More like this!
• Useful Chemistry: sample search phrases
  Neat idea, using websearch to find problems in science that people are talking about online.
• WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Worldchanging Pledge/ Campaign Update
  An attempt to get together an impromptu pledge group in the comment thread.
• Fat Doctor
  That is, a doctor who is fat.
• I Hate Cilantro – an anti cilantro community
  “Welcome! You are visiting the web site of a growing community of cilantro haters. We are, however, rational people. In fact, we are the most rational people on earth. No normally functioning human being would ever in a lifetime consider cilantro edible.” I am greedier for Mexican food than a hobbit for mushrooms, so I’ve come to like cilantro. The spousal unit still avoids it though.
• Bora asks: Publishing hypotheses and data on a blog – is it going to happen on science blogs?
  See also.
• Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen
  Turn a $3 Pilot G2 into a superior writing instrument with Mont Blanc superspendypen refills. Think I’ll try this.

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