By Jillian Quattlebaum Capital News Service RICHMOND – Nervous about his first job interview for a position as a restaurant waiter in high school, Anderson Cooper asked his mother for advice. “She thought about it and she said, ‘Wear vertical stripes because they’re slimming,’” Cooper recalled. The Emmy-winning anchor for CNN spoke to […]
Sky-Wagon
I traveled to Albany to read poetry at an anarchist storefront known as the "Capital District Federation of Ideas" (which is at 383 1/2 Madison Avenue). Afterwards, Thomas Wilk, one of the leading anarchists, brought me to the Underground Tunnel of Art, part of the massive state office complex. In a wide underground passageway, Nelson […]
Greetings from Inside a Conceptual Artwork*! *By Daniel Buren
That’s me in the picture to the left standing in front of an artwork by Daniel Buren, a French conceptual artist, who decided in 1965 that he liked a particular pattern of stripes he saw in a fabric store in Paris, and has been making them ever since — sometimes as “street art,” anonymously pasted […]
Sparks Fly at New York City’s First Hackathon
What I saw at the General Assembly this weekend was people sharing ideas. On Saturday, techies gathered to help city officials figure out how to reach over 8 million people. People were juggling, eating, coding, laughing and, last but not least, thinking. In a light and airy space, innovators of all stripes shared ideas […]
In Russia, Who is Restricting the Russian Internet?
Written by Marina Litvinovich, Global Voices On 18 April, 2011, American non-profit organisation Freedom House issued a report on Internet freedom in the world. The report, “Freedom on the Net 2011“ analyses freedom of access to the Internet in 2009-2010 in 37 countries. In the report (authored by Global Voices’ Alexey Sidorenko, editor of RuNet Echo), […]
Cake Lovers!!!
Do you love cakes? If yes, you are in the right place on the right time! Below you will find three cake recipes. I hope you like them. GIPSY CARAVAN CAKE You will need: – A sultana cake, butter weight 1/2 lb., baked in a loaf tin (recipe follows) – 1.5 lb. almond paste – Egg […]