A Series of Tubes

I ran into Jono Kinkade recently.  I had originally met him when the tree sit originally got started.  He has writes for the city on a hill press, the student newspaper, and has covered the tree sit and other disputes over the LRDP.  I guess I should help out and plug the fact that city on a hill press is looking for reporters, photographers, copy editors, illustrators, web designers etc. so if you’re a UCSC student and want a 5 credit internship then email them: work4chp@gmail.com.

Well Jono was able to fill me in on the happenings of the tree sit recently.  It has been difficult to find out what exactly has been going on because there used to be an encampment at the base of the tree sit where you could go and get information.  Currently you have to read the signs hung in the trees and those don’t change or tell you what the status of the tree sit is.  Jono has written up a really good recap of the status of the LRDP here but it looks like the webpage is a massive resource hog so I might try to repost it without the crazy background image or whatever it is that is slowing my browser down to a crawl.

It sounds like there is a little bit of a split in the protest.  Read more

What do the following two things have in common:

1) Grand theft Auto 4

2) Energy Conservation

Well not much actually but the editors over at the new republic try to make the case for a link between the two. If you’re like me then you will end up knowing that the Ambient Orb costs $150 (way too much for a glowing ball) and works mostly on the pager network, but I have a feeling that you’re not like me.

I want a crow vending machine. Then I can control them as my minions:

On an unrelated note you should check out this crazy animation.