Comments on: Random links for your reading pleasure http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:03:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: prosehack65 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-422198 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:28:19 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-422198 Do be careful with the "found" treasures," especially those of a furniture or upholstery type, and ESPECIALLY in urban areas. Bringing those home is the #1 way to introduce bedbugs into your life. And if you've never dealt with them, it's best described as "hell on earth." Do be careful with the “found” treasures,” especially those of a furniture or upholstery type, and ESPECIALLY in urban areas.

Bringing those home is the #1 way to introduce bedbugs into your life. And if you’ve never dealt with them, it’s best described as “hell on earth.”

]]> by: lydia http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421865 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:27:52 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421865 Reduce, reuse, recycle... in that order. My work spins off a decent number of clean, empty cardboard boxes every week, so I try to freecycle them to people who are moving. I think shopping at thrift stores is fun, and with a little dye and some sewing skills it's even more fun. I wonder if someone could start a nonprofit collecting the extra food from restaurants and cooking it into free meals (with no ideology attached to receiving one)... you'd probably need to start it out of your own kitchen though. But I still don't know what to throw the cat litter out in, other than a plastic bag. Reduce, reuse, recycle… in that order.

My work spins off a decent number of clean, empty cardboard boxes every week, so I try to freecycle them to people who are moving. I think shopping at thrift stores is fun, and with a little dye and some sewing skills it’s even more fun.

I wonder if someone could start a nonprofit collecting the extra food from restaurants and cooking it into free meals (with no ideology attached to receiving one)… you’d probably need to start it out of your own kitchen though.

But I still don’t know what to throw the cat litter out in, other than a plastic bag.

]]> by: PseudoAdrienne http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421419 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:32:25 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421419 Thanks for the shout-out! Thanks for the shout-out!

]]> by: hk http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421406 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:06:29 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421406 Did Professor Black Woman have a bunch of not-so-nice types infest her blog? There isn't anything there anymore. Did Professor Black Woman have a bunch of not-so-nice types infest her blog? There isn’t anything there anymore.

]]> by: Ace http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421381 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:12:19 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421381 Wow, that's one of Debbie bin Schlussel's creepiest posts yet. As for dumpster diving, it is a way of life/means of survival for the homeless, and yet it's become dangerous for them because of the poison additives. Wow, that’s one of Debbie bin Schlussel’s creepiest posts yet.

As for dumpster diving, it is a way of life/means of survival for the homeless, and yet it’s become dangerous for them because of the poison additives.

]]> by: bread and roses http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421375 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:56:49 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421375 In my neighborhood (yes, next to a university full of wealthy students), there's a time of year in May known as "[Name of University] Christmas." Students move out and as mentioned, it's incredible what one can find in the dumpsters and at the curbside. You are limited only by what you can carry. In my neighborhood (yes, next to a university full of wealthy students), there’s a time of year in May known as “[Name of University] Christmas.” Students move out and as mentioned, it’s incredible what one can find in the dumpsters and at the curbside. You are limited only by what you can carry.

]]> by: togolosh http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421356 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:03:37 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421356 I'm a guerilla recycler born and raised (one of my favorite childhood memories is of the time my dad and I found a mostly working church organ at the dump and brought it back to my grandpa's place). Some of these Freegans frankly seem like holier-than-thou assholes. Is it not enough to get cool stuff for free while helping the environment? Do we really need to wrap the whole thing in layers of ideological mumbo-jumbo while sneering down our noses at folks who occasionally actually *buy* stuff? I’m a guerilla recycler born and raised (one of my favorite childhood memories is of the time my dad and I found a mostly working church organ at the dump and brought it back to my grandpa’s place). Some of these Freegans frankly seem like holier-than-thou assholes. Is it not enough to get cool stuff for free while helping the environment? Do we really need to wrap the whole thing in layers of ideological mumbo-jumbo while sneering down our noses at folks who occasionally actually *buy* stuff?

]]> by: grendelkhan http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421354 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:01:40 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421354 Speaking of linkspam, I ran into <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/513641346/" rel="nofollow">this rather depressing story</a>. Short version: photographer has (not naked or anything) self-portrait at fourteen used as box art for porn. Attempts to confront the people responsible involve them laughing at her in all caps. She can't get representation. It might do good to get some exposure here, as this seems like the sort of thing that the admins here would be interested in. Speaking of linkspam, I ran into this rather depressing story. Short version: photographer has (not naked or anything) self-portrait at fourteen used as box art for porn. Attempts to confront the people responsible involve them laughing at her in all caps. She can’t get representation. It might do good to get some exposure here, as this seems like the sort of thing that the admins here would be interested in.

]]> by: Older http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421349 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:55:09 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421349 The route to getting fine free stuff is living (or dumpstering) next to a university. Higher education is so expensive any more, even at state institutions, that only the rich can afford it. Their pampered kids throw away entire washed and folded wardrobes because they are too lazy to pack. But you have to be quick and alert, because they are such shits that as soon as one of them discards a useable appliance or piece of furniture, another will come by to kick it to pieces. Okay, I'm overgeneralizing here. They're not all spoiled, and they're not all destructive. Not all, but many. The route to getting fine free stuff is living (or dumpstering) next to a university. Higher education is so expensive any more, even at state institutions, that only the rich can afford it. Their pampered kids throw away entire washed and folded wardrobes because they are too lazy to pack. But you have to be quick and alert, because they are such shits that as soon as one of them discards a useable appliance or piece of furniture, another will come by to kick it to pieces.

Okay, I’m overgeneralizing here. They’re not all spoiled, and they’re not all destructive. Not all, but many.

]]> by: RonF http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421338 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:43:22 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/06/21/random-links-for-your-reading-pleasure/#comment-421338 I have often asked on Free Republic (a conservative site) whether or not someone needs to be Christian to be considered a conservative. This was before Mitt hit national renown, so I wasn't bringing up the issue of "Are Mormons Christians?" (BTW, according to the Roman Catholics and Lutherans and Methodists and Southern Baptists and just about all of the rest of the well-known Christian denominations, the answer is "No.") Anyway, the general idea seemed to be "No". Now, I don't know how comfortable the Christian Coalition types would be in working with atheist conservatives, but they're out there and at least two of them have blogs. I have often asked on Free Republic (a conservative site) whether or not someone needs to be Christian to be considered a conservative. This was before Mitt hit national renown, so I wasn’t bringing up the issue of “Are Mormons Christians?” (BTW, according to the Roman Catholics and Lutherans and Methodists and Southern Baptists and just about all of the rest of the well-known Christian denominations, the answer is “No.”)

Anyway, the general idea seemed to be “No”. Now, I don’t know how comfortable the Christian Coalition types would be in working with atheist conservatives, but they’re out there and at least two of them have blogs.

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