This may be worth bookmarking if you are in a CSA and overwhelmed by vegetables.

This may be worth bookmarking if, like me, you're aging and unmarried.

I found this essay by a young Rwandan woman to be amazing: honest, blunt, heart-breaking but not pitiful, and strangely hopeful about human resiliency. Do read it. (Link via MeFi ( Read more... )

I haven't seen either Sleepy Hollow or Agents of SHIELD (please don't spoil me!) because I'm desperately trying to finish my book club book before Thursday. This is what happens when you lose track of the date, and underestimate the length of the book. (Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Amusing but kind of repetitive, and rather long ( Read more... )

By way of Long Form: A profile of the 20th century's greatest mountaineer, Reinhold Messner.

By way of BoingBoing: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain during WWII. Coolness, and probably a good research tool.

I love William Langewiesche's writing (if only I could remember how to spell his name!), so I'll have to make time to read ( Read more... )

One of the bloggers at The Economist found his way into one of Anonymous' IRC channels. He talks about it here. It's an interesting discussion, although hampered (I think) by the blogger's ignorance of Anonymous' past projects (Pedo-bear, the Scientology attacks, etc.) and associations (4chan, ED, etc.). But it does make it pretty clear that ( Read more... )