Archive for August 25th, 2006
Reality Affirmative Action, Training from A to 6
SSW mentioned this fall’s 4-way apartheid Survivor: Cook Islands today. City officials are appropriately outraged, but the question ithat occurs to me is whether there were this many Asians applying for the previous 12 seasons? Amazing Race has 2 Asian teams this year, apparently also to address the reality of the situation. The only Asian [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Sit, Pluto, Sit… (Bark!) … Good Dog!
Umm, yeah, sorry, the official announcement’s out: Pluto is the (Dwarf) Planet. Not a planet (or at least of the major ones of our solar system). Lots of corresponding videos on the story too - loved how CNN has as its space correspondent Miles O’Brien on the story (CNN.com has video where O’Brien talks to [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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