I love Rolling Thunder, the annual Memorial Day weekend gathering of veterans in Washington DC, most of whom arrive on motorcycles. I suppose it’s a little odd for a lesbian atheist liberal to like a gathering of gun-toting bike-riding right wingers, but I do. It’s partly about the veterans. Most Rolling Thunder attendees are Vietnam [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Weekly Quicklinks for May 28, 2011
The way we ride: obliviously Thoughts about safety on public transit, including complacency that results in getting your stuff stolen. Washington’s first convention center From the 19th century, at the Mount Vernon Triangle. Doctors’ Hospital, a "hotel for the sick" The now-defunct hospital of Washington DC. A Vegan No More One woman's experience of health [...]
Starkey Hearing Foundation in Africa
Last night was the final episode of Celebrity Apprentice, in which Marlee Matlin faced off against John Rich to win the game. Rich was playing for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which treats children with cancer, and Matlin was playing for the Starkey Hearing Foundation which provides hearing aids to children in the United States [...]
Weekly Quicklinks for May 21, 2011
Butthurt Form Please describe the nature of the butthurt. the Face of Tomorrow The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity. Beautycheck Finding answers to why we regard one face as being more beautiful than another is actually not as easy as it [...]
Scottish Highlands Finger Spelling
Thanks to The World in Words, I learned about “Scottish Finger-Signing.” Apparently Deaf children in the Scottish Highlands used to grow up using exclusively fingerspelling, rather than sign language. Now, TWIW uses the word “language” to describe this, and I disagree with that – it is a manual code for English, not a proper language [...]
Weekly Quicklinks for May 7, 2011
Thanks to RSS Digest these are now weekly! I think. A Fix Exclusive: Four Loko’s Frat-Boy Founders Fire Back! Intelligent article looks at the history of Four Loko, including the drama that prompted the removal of caffeine from the formula. Panderers in Japan Catch Western celebrities appearing in Japanese commercials, even if they wouldn't be [...]
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Satisfied: Completion of 120 Credits to Graduate [RQ570] Satisfied: General Studies Requirements. Complete all requirements:Freshman Foundation, Integrated Learning and Capstone. [RG572] Satisfied: Service Learning – Completion of at least one 200-level Intergrated Learning Course with a Service Learning component. [RG575] Satisfied: Overall GPA Graduation Requirement [RG578] Satisfied: Requirements for a Major in Deaf Studies [RG601] [...]