Links for November 3, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008 The human race has yet to reach the pinnacle of awesomeness, as is evidenced by the fact that some people still think that 13-year-old gang-rape victims should be murdered for "adultery".
Brendan Jamison uses sugarcubes to make sweet architectural sculptures.
Jason Kottke stopped updating his ongoing report on the state of gender diversity at web conferences, because it became too depressing.
Cursebird will keep you abreast of who's swearing on Twitter.
Do they ever know how to build gorgeous metro stations in Russia!
"From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family's Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre" takes an intimate look through found letters at a tragedy that changed everything for one family.
Cesar Vallejo's poem "Today I Like Life Much Less..." kicks butt.
Say goodbye to Studs Terkel.
Ever a fan of vintage movie stills, I love this collection of end titles from old movies.
Meet the Abe Lincoln of someone else's dreams.
It is ridiculous that some people found it necessary to conduct a study to prove that obese women have sex.
If you are looking for "...intelligent discussions and advice on relationship problems, moral dilemmas, sexual predicaments, family squabbles, and all of life's other little quandaries...", check out quandr, a community forum.
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, wealthy women had artisans build really tiny houses for them.
After looking at these creative bed designs, my bed seems far too boring to sleep in.
I am a participant in NaBloPoMo 2008, a challenge to write 30 posts in 30 days during the month of November. "National Blog Posting Month is the epicenter of daily blogging!"
Reader Comments (8)
This is a great collection of links.
I really like the end titles too. And I did not know that Studs Terkel died. *sniff*
Super links. All of 'em.
The link to Cesar Vallejo's poem takes us to your site, though.
Thanks for the heads up, O-Face. The link's been fixed.
Very cool! This is just like Harper's "Index"page. Even better ... Schmutzie's Index.
(http://www.google.com/url?q=http://harpers.org/subjects/HarpersIndex&sa=X&oi=smap&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=3&usg=AFQjCNHHzI1geD9WAVtWOxNNxayPXnBdzA)
I just finished reading thru all your archived entries--thank you so very much for sharing so very much of your life. Now I will go back to living my own life . . . where did I put it?
LindaLBA, that's a helluva lot of reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I saw that article on big gals and sex and was struck by the dumbfounded research stating he didn't know why big gals were having more sex. Doesn't he listen to the radio? Fat bottom girls make this rockin' world go round!
(good list by the by)
xox
fat-bottomed jan
Schmutzie, when I saw that link about the 13 yo girl I just sat there thinking, "we're all effing doomed aren't we?" I mean, WHEN? When does the....all of it...when does the human race actually start to act less like zoo creatures?
Loved the links. Followed some and will come back for more later. As usual, thanks for giving me some things to think about.