Organic Mutant Archives: May 2006
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31 May 2006
a moment can be divided an infinite number of ways
This guy is trying to sell 1000 paintings, which if you’ve read boingboing lately you may have skimmed his site already. The paintings to me are so boring that I can’t understand why people would buy. I certainly won’t be laying down any quiche for this stuff, but people are. He sold [...]
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29 May 2006
fitting the stereotype
I was reading the comments to this hullabaloo post when I was reminded about a conversation I’d had with a fellow passenger on my flight home from Charlotte last week.
My single-serving friend Kim was on her way to visit her two sons in Redding, where they’d be graduating from high school and college, respectively. Her [...]
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25 May 2006
Travails
The past three point five weeks have been full of ups and downs. First, a voyage south for ArtWalk, a wonderful experience celebrating my mother’s burgeoning oil painting endeavors. Then home for a week. Then a wonderful week in Yosemite: a vacation so wonderful and ideal that it was hard to believe the perfection of [...]
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21 May 2006
The mission of a think tank is to introduce ideas into public discourse and normalize them within the public discourse.
Step by step, ideas that were once radical or unthinkable � homeschooling, tuition tax credits, and vouchers � have moved into normal public discourse.
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21 May 2006
New Tab
New Tab is NOT the old Tab. I was given one on the street today (outside of Peet’s, by a promo person). You remember Tab right? The ‘diet’ soda of the early 80’s? And a soda that for some unknown reason disappeared from our supermarket shelves nearly 20 years ago. Well, now Tab has been [...]
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18 May 2006
Insight into the soul of another human on the same planet but possibly a different dimension
My PersonalDNA
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18 May 2006
Black is the new White (again)
Remember when all laptops were black, so Apple made them white, which made them cool. The circle of marketing life has circled, and now cool black is the new white (no longer the coolest).
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16 May 2006
80’s rulez
On my way home today I dipped into American Rag, an odd mix of ridiculously overpriced new clothes and decently priced, nice used clothes. Even though the prices are a bit much, the selection of styles is pretty cool.
So there I was shuffling through the shirt racks (I bought a vintage polo) when I stumble [...]