Toxic Bullets
I always thought the term “green ammo” was an oxymoron. Let’s face it, no matter how you slice it, war isn’t great for anyone’s health.
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Savage Guilt
I can understand why anthropologists have become a wee bit more defensive about their profession in recent years. But this reaction to a popular i-phone application over at Savage Minds strikes me as a clinical case of overcompensation: I just wonder how it is that Apple finds an application in which people can throw shoes…Continue Reading…
There's No Going Home
The Washington Post talks with Jeff Jarvis, leading new media maven. Money quote: WP: In all the bad news for newspapers stories, there’s always a lot of nostalgia. JJ: Horses are very nice. Cars belch pollution and get us into the mess of the oil economy. But we’re not going back to horses.
South Carolina's Ancient Heritage
You don’t hear this often coming out of an archaeological dig in the American southeast: It’s some of the oldest stuff in the country. We definitely have a major find. As reported by The State, a newspaper in South Carolina, The site, about a mile below the Lake Murray dams, apparently was a longtime meeting…Continue Reading…
The Messy, Journalistic Compulsion
I haven’t seen State of Play yet, but this review essay by Alyssa Rosenberg at the Atlantic makes some interesting observations about the journalistic enterprise. Two are worth highlighting. The first is on the humanness of reporters: In a climate in which reporters are expected to be as detached as jurors, and against the backdrop…Continue Reading…
Archaeologists Get Stimulated
As I discussed here, the economic downturn is impacting archaeologists who work in the private sector. But not everyone is hurting, apparently. This guy, who sounds like an Indian Jones knock-off, says his business is booming, thanks to the government stimulus.
Rumble Time
Now that this day is here, I can imagine the current EPA Administrator gleefully thinking, in the deepest recesses of her subconscious, “You wanna piece of this…” Somewhere, Christie Todd Whitman is having a bad flashback.
Delusionary in Kos-land
Kos is kidding himself: In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we’d have little problem replacing them as a source of information. Sure you would. Here’s the problem with his metric: Just because a link from his survey didn’t lead to a documented primary or secondary newspaper…Continue Reading…
Shamanism's Big Tent
It’s all here, including the latest on ingestibles, from creamy chocolates to trippy toxics.
Scammed on Spam
Is that newsy study on spam’s massive carbon footprint much ado about nothing?