The City Council of Aberdeen, Washington, once home to grunge music legend Kurt Cobain, rejected a recommendation to rename the Young Street Bridge after the late Nirvana singer. Mr. Cobain spent part of his misspent youth loitering under that span across the Wishkah River. Some local citizens saw the bridge naming proposal as glorification of the musician’s drug abuse and suicide. “Is this the legacy we want to leave to our children?” asked Pastor Don Eden.
Q: What’s full of empty calories, packed in disposable plastic, saves energy, helps Earth’s ecology, and improves the lives of the world’s poor?
A. Coca-Cola in 1.5 liter plastic bottles.
The White House Soup of the Day for July 28, 2011 via MSNBC and FishbowlDC:
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France Télécom is hanging up on the Minitel videotexting system, whose monitors have been a fixture in French homes, offices, and post offices since 1982. It’s a text-over-phoneline system that also replaced phone directories, displayed online news and information, and allowed electronic bill payments and other transactions (even virtual sex). Cellphone MSM texting and e-commerce on the Web now serve many of the same functions. Still, there is some mélancolie as the French say “Adieu Minitel, ami fidèle.” FT will keep Minitel service running until its 30th birthday, June 30, 2012.
An upscale eatery in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood is serving kangaroo meat hamburgers. We haven’t been there yet, but we hear the place is hopping.
“Hundreds of same-sex couples say ‘I do’ in New York,” Patrick Wall, Christian Science Monitor
“Hundreds of gay, lesbian couples wed in New York on first day same-sex marriage is legal,” Lukas I. Alpert, New York Daily News
“After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York,” Thomas Kaplan and Michael Barbaro, New York Times
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Two Colombian soldiers were wounded last week when FARC guerrillas set off a bomb planted on a horse. There are no reports on the condition of the horse; we presume it is carne de hamburguesa.
The Horse Bomb is a new addition to the terrorist stable. It is unknown if the unfortunate animal was an Arabian, which of course would implicate Al-Qaeda.
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Remember “The End of History? Sigh. How quickly they forget.
We now we have The End of Memory. We forget more these days, but it’s okay. We’ve all out-sourced our long-term memories to search engines. That’s according to a new report by researchers from Harvard, Columbia and the University of Wisconsin:
“Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips,” Betsy Sparrow,Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner, Science (abstract)
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of American artist Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976). It’s a version of his famous hanging mobile sculptures (if you have HTML5, it moves). Here in Washington, Mr. Calder is celebrated every day by the United States Senate.
