Monday, November 24, 2014

Cyberflanerie: Naomi Shihab Nye, Chinese Chicken Pop, Ye Olde Checkers, Cool Tool for Creating Timewealth, Clay Shirky, Susan J. Tweit

Wang Rong Rollin does the chicken thing
Whatever has befallen you, you will feel better when you read Naomi Shihab Nye's "Gate A-4"

Soup or silly: Chinese Chicken Pop (does anyone remember the days of Mao pajamas? I visited in 1982 and now it seems like a surrealistic dream.)


From south of the border, pues si, amigos y amigas, dear readers, and all cockerspaniels gathered 'round, Nixon's Checkers speech has been Fukushimaed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdJ06CLjjxE


Speaking of Mexico, and how very weird things can get, Heribert von Feilitzsch blogs about the Hindu-German conspiracy.


No need to drink coffee, just watch Jason Silva.


An anti-zombie-shuffle fix, aka "cool tool" for creating "timewealth": my guest-blog for Kevin Kelly's Cool Tool blog on the Filofax Personal organizer.

Frank Chimero on What Screens Want.


The brilliantly insightful Clay Shirky on Publishing and Reading.


(Note to self: first shovel snow for 12 hours) Susan J. Tweit's lavender rosemary scones.


A gorgeous sample of four: Guarding the Air: poems by Gunnar Harding, translated by Roger Greenwald.










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