Burning Grass Demolished A Village
via Ben via English Russia.Month: September 2010
the newest Secret Knots wants to know what to do
Walkthrough.
It is not even a question anymore that given the opportunity I would go back in time to lay out a new life for my past self, sit myself down and explain where not to be, who to see, what, instead, I should be finding. Tony and I were discussing this recently, that we would change our history without any hesitation, in particular, the year we were almost neighbors, both wrapped in misery, walking the same streets at night, locked out of the house by abusive relationships, (it’s very likely we brushed against each other as strangers, sat in the same places, rode the same bus, inches away yet years apart from saying hello). How incredible it would be to explain to our past selves, Do not continue with this. Instead, find this other person, tell them I sent you, tell them you’ll care.
tgif: hand dancing
Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding, Film by Jonny Reed
math is hard
70% of US federal spending reports don’t add up:
Today the Sunlight Foundation launched analysis that reveals more than $1.3 trillion in federal reporting data from 2009 is broken. These data inaccuracies account for 70 percent of the total $1.9 trillion in government spending data reported last year. Clearspending offers a critique on the reliability of data from USASpending.gov, across three metrics–consistency, completeness and timeliness–and covers spending from 2007, 2008 and 2009.
While there has been an increase in the number of programs reporting to USASpending.gov in the past three years, the reported data suffers from an abundance of errors, as well as problems with the data’s timeliness and completeness. Findings from Sunlight’s Clearspending show that a significant portion of the government’s data is unreliable and that USASpending.gov has not fulfilled its legal requirement of providing the public access to accurate, timely and detailed information on how federal agencies fulfill their spending obligations.
a patriotic make-over for the USA’s favourite over-used ingredient!
A new name for high fructose corn syrup:
The Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms that make the syrup, has been trying to improve the image of the much maligned sweetener with ad campaigns promoting it as a natural ingredient made from corn. Now, the group has petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration to start calling the ingredient “corn sugar,” arguing that a name change is the only way to clear up consumer confusion about the product.
“Clearly the name is confusing consumers,” said Audrae Erickson, president of the Washington-based group, in an interview.
“I’m not eager to help the corn refiners sell more of their stuff,” Dr. Nestle wrote in an e-mail. “But you have to feel sorry for them. High-fructose corn syrup is the new trans fat. Everyone thinks it’s poison, and food companies are getting rid of it as fast as they can.”
Although food label changes aren’t common, the F.D.A. has allowed name changes in the past. The ingredient first called “low erucic acid rapeseed oil” was changed to “canola oil” in the 1980s. More recently, the F.D.A. allowed prunes to be called “dried plums.”
oh my god, it’s full of stars (it goes wub wub wub)
Been avoiding the internet a whole bunch as part of an experiment to see how much I can accomplish before I have to check my mail, (so far I seem to have an average gap of fourty-five minutes before tapping in), but I’m breaking radio silence to bring you THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Described by the band as “vaporous violins and Danny Elfman-esque dementia; glitchy, laser-guided harmonica provided by Blues Traveler frontman John Popper; and two very different vocal tracks that range between restless pop hooks provided by singer songwriter LYNX, to the vibrant Eastern European folk melodies of New York vocalist Eva Salina. All wrapped up into an intricate collection of orchestral textures, heavy beats and sub bass.”* it’s also available for sale as a physical CD. Listening to it, as I have been all day, only one question springs to mind, “why wasn’t this the soundtrack of Burning Man?”. To hell with those rich kid hippies with the massive sound rigs yet dishwater, tin can techno. This is what I want to be dancing to during my next whiteout.
*Also featuring blog darling, Mer, on theremin and violin.
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To celebrate, allow me to present Lung‘s… package. (Picture by Tony.)
Shana Tova Umetukah, everyone!