People know I have intensely disliked eVite (no, they, like MySpace, are not link worthy) from Day One. Most people just chalk it up to me being crazy and a pure Internetist, but it is much more than that.
Thankfully, LW e-mailed me a NYT article that kind of lays out the reasons why “eVite sucks”. [...]
I’m way late on this, which is to say that I’ve been busy and not much struck me as awesome from the recent fashion weeks. Although, Yves Saint Laurent’s collection won major points in my (limited) book. Take a look at my favorite piece on the far right in the first image (Photo from NYT). [...]
Also tagged fashion, Yves Saint LaurentThe New York Times recently had a solid article on coffee and the emergence of direct trade coffee. Check it out if you’re a coffee person.
Also tagged coffeeOdd that I have not seen any other articles, discussions, or references to this:
The New York Times
October 2, 2006
U.S. to Cut Guatemala’s Debt for Not Cutting Trees
By MARC LACEY
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1 — The United States government has joined with two environmental groups in a debt-for-nature swap, which will forgive about 20 percent of Guatemala’s [...]
New York Times
September 13, 2006
Pope Assails Secularism, Adding Footnote on Jihad
By IAN FISHER
REGENSBURG, Germany, Sept. 12 — Pope Benedict XVI weighed in Tuesday on the delicate issue of rapport between Islam and the West: He said that violence, embodied in the Muslim idea of jihad, or holy war, is contrary to reason and God’s plan, [...]
In the activist, policy, and academic worlds, there’s a significant amount of attention paid to the demise of the welfare state or even welfare protections. This is usually tied into neoliberal policies and capitalist/free market economics. The general fear, or analysis, is summed up in the familiar “race to the bottom” phrase-cum-cliche.
The above-mentioned worlds often [...]
I started this post when the article was originally published. Now, however, I have forgotten what additional points I wanted to make. The article, despite it’s confusing writing, is interesting and worth reading, especially for fans of contentious politics and/or architecture, which is why I am posting the article and my intro to it.
In the [...]