http://www.terrorintheheartland.com Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:23:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Valleywag: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Out of a Job His board term expired, and another board member has created a bureaucratic logjam that make it difficult to re-appoint him or appoint a new member. http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2009/01/03/failanthropy-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-out-of-a-job/ The Big Picture photo blog is almost always worthwhile, but today's post of images of the 2008 Greek riots is particularly interesting. In particular, check out photo #7, it shows a stylish young woman in designer jeans next to a guy in a Zapatista (EZLN) t-shirt. It's interesting to know ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/12/15/the-big-picture-2008-greek-riots/ Oliver Reichenstein argues Web Design is 95% Typography and points to some resources on Web typography. http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/12/13/information-architects-web-design-is-95-typography/ In These Times has an intereresting interview with Ian MacKaye, the former frontman for Fugazi and Minor Threat. In the interview he discusses political activism and fatherhood. http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/12/07/in-these-times-interview-with-ian-mackaye/ I don’t want to appear too cynical, but when I first saw the ‘Yes We Can’ rock video that Will.I.Am made, my first response was ‘Wow, finally a politician is making ads that are as good as Nike’s.’ -Naomi Klein Profiles: Outside Agitator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker. http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/12/05/naomi-kiein-on-obama-in-the-new-yorker/ Readers who know me probably know that I'm indifferent to the Guns n' Rose album Chinese Democracy, but native reviewer Chuck Klosterman makes an interesting assertion in his review of the record. Chinese Democracy is pretty much the last Old Media album we'll ever contemplate in this context—it's the last album ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/11/20/chinese-democracy-means-the-end-of-old-media/ The blogs BikeSnobNYC and OneLesCar do a blogging exercize called "The Worst of Craigslist," where they ridicule infuriatingly stupid or dishonest ads in the bike section of Craigslist. I ran across one this morning that I cannot allow to escape ridicule. Here's a screengrab in case the ad comes down: Here's ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/11/13/worst-of-craigslist-tri-magna/ I'm reposting this from a post I made on the BIcycle Austin Forum. I just heard a story on KUT that suggests the city plans to phase out parking meters in favor of multi-space kiosks. Under this scheme, motorists walk to a kiosk that serves several spaces on a block, the ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/11/13/austin-ripping-out-bike-parking/ But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/11/12/washington-wire-wsjcom-before-he-was-president-mistaken-for-a-waiter-a-2003-obama-meeting/ The Downtown Austin Alliance has announced the winners of its bicycle rack competition. None of the winners were what I expected, steel tubes bent into kitschy shapes. Instead, the winners explore a variety of textures and materials, drawing inspiration from nature and cycling. You can see each of the winners ... http://www.terrorintheheartland.com/2008/11/03/downtown-bicycle-rack-winners/