creep
Gorgeous, passionate cover of one of the best songs evah. (Though, it took me a sec to get past the back-up harmony.)
scarier than science fiction
The American media refuses (is not allowed?) to report on this, but Al Jazeera has an incredible feature on the Gulf seafood deformities that are ‘alarming scientists’. I know people who are eating seafood from the Gulf, who shall go unnamed. Cra-zay.
creepy cool promo for Alien prequel Prometheus
Um, where can I get a Fassbender robot?
Speaking of, Peter took some cool pics of robots the other day. We have a long way to go. I sort of hope we never get there.
oblivion
Addicted to this song, and weirdly enough, this video. Probably because Claire Boucher aka Grimes is so adorable. Just had a recent love affair with her Cocteau Twins inspired album Halfaxa from 2010–quirky and delicious!
ashley judd slaps media in the face
Bravo. The changes she talks about are going to start when women stop brutally critiquing other woman.
holi fest
Peter got some incredible pics and portraits from the Holi Festival at Stanford this weekend. A couple of them will be featured in one of our local newspapers. Check ‘em out!
Pinterest has pretty much replaced Cherry in terms of where I’m collecting lots and lots of images. Here are my pins. Here are my boards. Come play.
sunset magic
Two different sunsets that Peter captured at Russian Hill an open space preserve a few miles from us where we like to hike. It’s filled with hawks, ground squirrels, deerling and jack rabbits (about twice the size of our cats with ears a foot high.) BTW, if you want to keep up with Peter’s latest photos, sign up for his newsletter and they’ll be emailed directly to your inbox.
another victory
Looks like pink slime is off the menu, boys. At least for now. Pink slime, a.k.a. “finely textured beef”, is a meat by-product that’s used in like 95%+ of non-organic ground hamburger meat. People finally made a big fuss about, shit went viral, and change happened. Hurray for us.
Nobody did anything (about pink slime). USDA dropped the ball again. The meat industry soft sold it,” said Zirnstein, who left USDA and took a job as an industry consultant but now is unemployed. The issue got renewed life when British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who advocates for American children to eat healthier food, devoted an episode of his television show to the topic in April last year.
Disgusted by the product, consumer activist organizations, food safety blogs and the media have pounced on the issue. More than a million people have watched a YouTube video of Oliver’s show, an online petition has begun and consumers have complained to major grocery companies. [...[
"The whole thing went viral ... Just blew the top off everything," said Zirnstein. Zirnstein said he worried at first about being deemed a whistleblower, but now does not care. "I am really an involuntary whistleblower," he said. But he added, "It looks like pink slime. That is what I said." Asked if he and his family still eat hamburgers, Zirnstein sighed. "The labels aren't clear, so we don't eat it. That's the thing," he said. "It isn't freaking labeled."
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