Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Words I Hate, #1
Veganarchist.
I hate the word veganarchist. It makes me want to go eat chicken or something. I’ve been vegan for 8 years now, an anarchist for 7. They are really different things. Vegan is a dietary choice. At best, it’s a tactic for reducing animal suffering. Anarchist reflects so much more. Sigh.
I figure most people already [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Magpie
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Why Legislation Doesn’t Fix Things
California wants to ban black cars. Why? Because the AC has to work harder in a black car, since it absorbs sunlight.
Beyond the obvious “gee, that’s great, but what about the problems with car culture in general that are destroying the world?” question, there’s of course the question of liberty. But the thing is, even [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
No Hope
I found this comic today, from A Softer World. This is an exact thing that happened to me, about 3 years ago. Not much has changed since then.
2 Comments » - Posted in Comics by Magpie
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Identical Twins FTW
This never occurred to me before. But, well, identical twins have nearly indistinguishable DNA. Meaning that they make really, really good criminals. In Germany yesterday, two twins were
1 Comment » - Posted in Science by Magpie
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Head Full Of Birds
My good friend Steven Archer (of spooky rock electronica band Ego Likeness) just set up a new blog for his art, headfullofbirds.com. Steven (along with his partner-in-crime Donna Lynch) is responsible for a great deal of what I know about the world, and about art, and ethics. He produces a prodigious amount of artwork, because [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Art by Magpie
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Why Anarchist Economics Are Inevitable*
(*yes, yes, I know.)
Newspapers are crumbling—people get their news from the internet, simple as that. So the papers are moving to online only. The thing is, there isn’t a strong enough business model to support them there, either. People are trying out other models, like charging for online content, or withholding news from the internet [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
MAKE Magazine Steampunk Issue Reviews
The latest issue of MAKE Magazine is out, and it’s steampunk themed. (As I mentioned earlier.) Anyhow, just got a chance to peek through it. Aside from having my friend Jake Von Slatt on the cover, and featuring my co-conspirator Libby Bulloff posing in the interior, they have great reviews of two of my projects, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Steampunk by Magpie
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Upon The Gears
So, last night I was watching Battlestar Galatica, which is admittedly a rather engrossing show. And anyhow, not to ruin it too much, one of the characters becomes a union leader on a desperate space colony, and he says this speech, almost word for word. The original speech, by Mario Savio was given in Berkley [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Activism by Magpie
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Change
2 Comments » - Posted in LOL by Magpie
Monday, March 9th, 2009
The End of Print Is Not Nigh
I’ve been reading screed after screed about the end of print recently. And by recently, I mean for the past two years. There seem to be two camps; there are those who say “print has more meaning, damn it! And it won’t die, because I love it! We will just soldier on, more or less [...]
