This is the weirdest fashion thing I ever saw…

March 31, 2007

I think I must be getting old or something, or else maybe it’s Carneval… Ok, I don’t know what to say. Must be the hair down my throat… Click on the link: The Hole – video powered by Metacafe What is on his chest, though? (via Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion, via Regine.)

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Maggot, man’s new best friend…

March 16, 2007

Not quite sure I want to diigo this little tidbit or bookmark it in any other way, so why not blog it? It seems that maggots are our (new) best friends — now that we’ve fritzed antibiotics — in combating flesh-eating bacteria. According to this Times Online March 12 article, “Maggots clean wounds 18 times […]

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That was …clean. (And not at all [stormy]…)

March 14, 2007

I was going to write “that was easy,” but realised that while it was “easy,” it wasn’t easy. “Clean” more appropriately describes the procedure: surgical, “that’s it, then,” as they put it. I just deleted my flickr account. Now I’m off to the theatre. Am going to see something called [storm], by battery opera of […]

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Flickr’ing off, the back-up is complete

March 14, 2007

Except for buying a CD or two to back up what I backed up to my hard drive, I am ready to let my flickr account go into the garbage bin of internet cool (for my thoughts on the matter, check out my new “buddy icon” on my flickr page, which I guess will be […]

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Gossip, privacy: second thoughts…

February 28, 2007

Mobile Gossip Annotated Once again I’m using diigo.com to blog an about an article I read — it’s a nifty feature (and if a reader wants a diigo invite, let me know and I’ll send you one).So, just quickly: I might have an article coming out in the March issue of Focus Magazine (a local […]

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Anthropology today…

February 24, 2007

Artists want to send a message – Los Angeles Times AnnotatedThe situation this article describes strikes me a totally decadent. And stupid. To many passersby, homemade signs asking for money are works of desperation: “Homeless,” “Hungry,” “Disabled,” “Please Help.”But to a Santa Ana couple who run a local gallery, the messages are works of art, […]

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Broke baroque

February 18, 2007

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has an exhibition centered on “the Baroque” currently on view. There are a few “old master” paintings (nothing first-rate), some prints & etchings, and then there’s the “Contemporary Baroque” piece of it, featuring the work of a single local artist (not well-known) as well as the (infamously known — […]

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One more update

February 17, 2007

Hal at Harvard Weblogs kindly set my default setting for comments and pings to “off.” Daryl (see PS to previous entry) was correct when he advised me that the spam flood was coming through trackbacks (pings), hence turning trackback off for the whole blog solved the problem. You’ll note that this entry and the previous […]

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Until further notice

February 16, 2007

I thought I had loosened restrictions on comments, but after going into the admin pages more deeply I saw that I still had the restrictions that I set up some days ago — that you have to be logged on to comment. Now, what’s weird is that in all this time, the spammers have been […]

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Tour of home

February 15, 2007

In Beirut and contradiction: reading the World Press Photo award (in Open Democracy), Mai Ghoussoub discusses a rivetting photograph by Spencer Platt, “Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 August,” which just placed First in the World Press Photo of the Year contest. (Check out the whole gallery: well worth it.) To […]

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