I moved my running blog over to WordPress. Pretty happy overall, but there’s been a ton of continued fixes to get it sort-of running. Very clearly an open-source thing, unlike MT.
It’s called Open Source and it’s out of WGBH in Boston. In their first two weeks, the shows have ranged from the future of the Internet and information, the impact of India and China achieving a middle class on the world, and the beauty of a good suit. Kind of like Wired but radio.
Catch it before it goes away.
Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post writes about the recurring “news” story of our times – that of the damsel in distress. Make that the white-middle-class damsel in distress.
Since I don’t have cable and can’t be inundated with the every-15-minute updates of these stories, I usually find out about them about two days after everyone else, and inevitably I think “Why the hell do people care??” Sure, the most obvious “who gives a shit” story would be the one of the runaway bride, but at some level they’re all the same and they should all really be just local stories. Somehow they get magnified into a national SAGA OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!
Can anything be done to counteract this trend? Does anyone really give a shit about these stories, or are they just filler for the 24-hour news cycle that will continue to be regurgitated ad nauseum??
When relatives of Vivian Shulman Lieberman went to visit her final resting place in a Houston mausoleum one year ago today, they discovered that the cedar chest containing her ashes was missing.
In its place, behind the locked, glass door of Lieberman’s niche in Congregation Beth Israel’s mausoleum, was a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips.
However, I think Cynthia would agree that it would not be inappropriate for her to store my ashes in a Pringles can.