The Weird Wide Web 21 Jul 2007 05:33 pm
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 14th through July 21st
These are my links for July 14th through July 21st:
- Changing Lanes – News – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper – More on the Stone Way road diet that isn’t. Brilliant, people — isolate the Burke Gilman Trail from the bike lanes.
- The Case of the Disappearing Bike Lanes — Sightline Institute – The mayor’s selling us out.
- The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » How green is your rice? – Were Mason and Singer right? Research into energy use and transport, comparing Californian and Bangladeshi rice.
- GNU Screen tutorial – Jonathan McPherson –
- embroidery and embroider – beautiful Assisi work.
- NeedleNThread.com: Needle’nThread.com: Video Library of Hand-Embroidery Stitches – Index – I recently discovered that I have not magically become competent at my old embroidery peeve, the chain stitch. Maybe that’ll change now that I can see how to do it right.
on 21 Jul 2007 at 7:52 pm 1.Mia said …
There was a story on BBC World News Service a week or two back about the ethical dilemma of local vs international organic farming, that approached things from a different angle. The question they examined was how the growing eat local movements would impact the organic farmers in Mexico and Chile who are also small farmers who depend on export business.
While reading the rice article I also couldn’t help wondering “what about the parts of the U.S. better suited to growing rice than California? Is there sustainable rice farming in Louisiana?”
on 21 Jul 2007 at 8:35 pm 2.Cam Sculpin said …
It’s my understanding that Louisiana has an extensive chemical manufacturing industry, particularly of vinyl. (Thus the phrase “Cancer Alley”.) I would think twice about eating anything grown in a field flooded by a river downstream from PVC plants.
on 21 Jul 2007 at 8:52 pm 3.Mia said …
Yeah, I kind of thought it might be something like that. There was the unwritten part of my question, “Or has all that potential been subverted to industrial chemical ends?” I was sort of hoping otherwise. There are other swampy regions though. THey can’t all be chemical wastelands.
[pause] Can they?