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Elsewhere: Greening your Halloween
Excess waste is a given when you have a holiday that glorifies the cheap plastic garbage people litter their lawns with, the abundance of individually wrapped candy bars and the uptick in energy usage for powering animated skeletons, jack-o-lantern lights and the aforementioned lawn ornament garbage. Still, all hope doesn’t have to be lost for those uneasy […]
Elsewhere: A film to surprise athiests
I just recently picked up a DVD copy of “The Ordinary Radicals,” a documentary that chronicles this past summer’s “Jesus For President” tour and a growing movement of evangelicals living out their faith in radical ways. Expect a full review soon. This article in the Lexington Herald-Leader gives some insight on what I would consider […]
Elsewhere: Careful who you pal around with
If you happen to know someone who has been involved in peaceful protests of the Iraq War or the death penalty in Maryland, you too may be guilty of palling around with terrorists, according to an article in today’s Washington Post. The Maryland State Police, according to this article, “classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists […]
Elsewhere: Sorting books
Artist Nina Katchadourian has been getting a lot of attention on the Web lately for her book sorting, a process where a collection of books is sorted so that various titles of books in a stack can be read in sequence from top to bottom. She’s actually been up to it for some time now […]
Elsewhere: Denison covers Van
The latest in a series of home-brewed cover songs Denison Witmer is releasing in the lead-up to the release of his new record on Nov. 11 is up at the Cover Lay Down blog. Mr. Witmer this time offers his take on Van the man with his own rendition of “Comfort You.” Click HERE to […]
Elsewhere: 150 percent in the tank
Dave Brooks’ crush on Sarah Palin not withstanding, the latest proof that the New York Times is “150 percent in the tank” for Obama as McCain’s campaign likes to suggest, is HERE. William Ayers, a former member of militant ’60s group the Weathermen, is a pretty popular guy these days on article comments (usually thrown […]
Elsewhere: C is for cookie
Kashi, a natural food company that specializes in breakfast cereals, nutrition bars, crackers, frozen waffles, frozen pizzas and other snack foods, wants to send you a free cookie. All you need to do is go to their Web site and sign up on the mailing list. (Hat tip: In Proximity)
Elsewhere: Doug Glanville in review
While the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins have done their best to keep the 2008 baseball season alive, the break in the action otherwise means it’s as good a day as any to catch up on former Major Leaguer Doug Glanville’s op-ed pieces for the New York Times. Glanville, a Upenn graduate who played […]