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You know me and my love of visualizations, here's a great music video discussing the need for improved hydrolic fracturing (aka: fracking) legislations. Catchy, pretty, funny, spot on.  What the frack IS going on? Aaaannndddd….  here's a much less funny video:

View Red Cross Haiti Relief Efforts in a larger map Here is an interesting visualization of the Red Cross' relief efforts in Haiti – in and around Port au Prince, courtesy of the American Red Cross blog: There is an incredible resiliency in the Haitian people. Since everyone has been affected by the earthquake, this [...]

Super duper Associated Press reporter Martha Irvine has a great piece on the continued popularity and rise of the Burlesque scene, entitled 'The Big Tease:  Burlesque Grows in Popularity'.  The question in many folks' mind on Burlesque remains:  art or X-rated? My thoughts / quote on the matter: And many audiences of burlesque shows are [...]

I've been an Electronic Frontier Foundation supporter for a few years now, if you haven't donated or read up on them recently today is a great day to do so! Recently, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation unveiled its plans to disseminate a school curriculum titled "Think First, Copy Later" as well as other intimidating educational [...]

Bullet Lights is a beautiful proposed project in Beirut (found via BldgBlog): This proposal that I called ‘bullet lights’ is reversing the meaning and experience of the ‘bullet hole wallpaper’ at diverse locations in the city. Introducing unexpected poetic moments of beauty. Beauty, ambivalently mixed with the physical testimonies of violence. The project doesn’t want [...]

Adam and I decided to take a stab at the whole evacuation thing this weekend. We’d never been refugees before and like to try just about everything at least once. Actually, the kicker was that our house really just wasn’t prepared and stocked to get us through very much. We like food (a whole lot) [...]

We’ve been working all morning on compiling a really solid list of online resources for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston.  You can view the Hurricane Katrina resource list here. It is still a work in progress, but will continue to have more great content added to it.  Check it out for good places to find: [...]

Yet another rather extreme example of governments going over the top to find graffiti kids: In a recent incident a motorcyclist was killed when he was  hit by a police car chasing a graffiti artist. "We’ve got to stop the graffiti hysteria," said Stroebele, a member of parliament for Berlin. "We need prudent measures against [...]

Today is Sinterklaas day – the feast day of St. Nickolas in the Netherlands and Belgium. As a wee happykatie, this was an extremely wonderful day as it was the first present day of December. We would make spekulaus cookies (Dutch spiced cookies in the shape of Bishop Nickolas or his naughty friend ‘Black Pete’) [...]