1. Chez Panisse's continued crusade for local sourcing - tap water!

2. Hotel CaliforniaBaghdad - you can check out, but you can't ever leave.

3. On the charm of the so-called "British" accent to American ears. Oh I dunno, for my part, I do like the softer pronounciations generally, but there are plenty of accents of that island nation that are ( Read more... )

1. Pop News: Anna Nicole Smith died yesterday. All my female colleagues were buzzing about it.

I couldn't help being amused by the whole thing. Yup, schadenfreude.

EDIT: Initial autopsy results are undramatic.

2. Richard Branson doing good? A $25 million "x-prize" for atmospheric carbon extraction

3. I don't particularly understand why this is ( Read more... )

Just saw a very interesting and personally disturbing lecture by Bernard-Henri Levy on The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe on UCTV ... RealVideo link here

Given on 10 April 06.

It seems food can be racist, as Charles Taylor is complaining of "Eurocentric" food in his Dutch prison.

Now, I can miss a good "Country Chop" and Jollof Rice as much as the next man, but really, are Vlaamse karbonades and Middeleeuwse salade van pastinaken so bad?

Ha! He's one to talkStill, if he ends up in the UK and is subjected to British ( Read more... )

International Blog Against Racism Week

As mentioned by Zara's and Coalescent's blogs...

My tuppence:

I am human.
Racism is the laziest form of prejudice which is itself already an evil lodestone on humanity.
Racism is fear, it is fear of accepting one's lack of uniqueness, and the fear of vulnerable individuality that all humans share ( Read more... )