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Absolutely amusing: animalsontheunderground.com

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As an editor who receives many unsolicited books for review, I sometimes dream of writing a book review like this one from the New York Times: An Assault on Hawaii. On Grammar Too.
On the basis of that detail, you might expect a high level of fastidiousness from “Pearl Harbor.”
And you would be spectacularly wrong.

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The Columbia Journalism review has an article about recent books that look at modern food production:
Organic food presently accounts for only 2.5 percent of all food sold in the United States–and that counts all the “industrial organic” food Pollan scorns. Are, then, these debates about the ethics and politics of food largely a pastime of [...]

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The farmers market at Boston City Hall resumed this week, and today I bought a loaf of whole wheat bread and a dozen beautiful, large, brown, free-range, local eggs. Woot!

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Cool history resource: BBC - History - Timelines - British Timeline (via Kottke).

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I’ll only give you one line of setup for the coffeeshop story related at The Panopticon: Dawn of the Dumb
“Um, okay. Well, I have a lot of work to do, and I was really hoping you might be getting ready to leave.”
You’ll just have to go there to see the brilliant resolution to the drama.

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Today I came to a degree of clarity about the role-playing situation in Caledon, the Victorian Steampunk region of Second Life. Here’s the entry I posted to caledonforums this evening:
Dear friends and neighbors,
I have today come to the conclusion that I can no longer support Caledon’s military activities. While the original goals are nothing [...]

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Very nice rant over at iMinister about how “transformation and religious education are uniquely the purposes of church.” The specifics of the rant are very UU-specific, but the underlying concern is apropos to Quaker meetings as well.

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