This girl is fantastic.

Discovered her through Filled with Chocolate Pudding!, and she is fantastic. She’s just about everything right with social media.

Go watch her other videos.

Strange Bedfellows

As you doubtlessly know, I’m not one for advertising, image-heaviness, etc. But I added the Strange Bedfellows link in the sidebar because I think it’s important.

Accountability Now PAC is a coalition of liberal and libertarian political writers and activists that wants to end unlawful surveillance of Americans. The group is collecting pledges to contribute to a “moneybomb” on August 8 (the anniversary of Nixon’s resignation) to send a message to our politicians that this must stop. The goal of the organization is to become a fixture in Washington, to make it clear to our elected officials that they—regardless of party affiliation or voting record—will be held accountable for upholding our civil liberties.

I’d be interested to hear your feedback on this; I’ve tried to largely keep this blog apolitical, but I feel this is too important an issue not to endorse, since it impacts everyone’s ability to communicate freely.

Another use for plurk.

Plurk is good for obtaining advice and recording important information for the authorities in a timely fashion.

Although, in fairness, the original post time was 10:28pm. Plurk pages seem to need an offset.

Then and Now

Thanks to bkerr for pointing out this article on Arbor Update, which links to this article from the Ann Arbor News.

The mural in the alley near the Michigan Theater is kind of a local institution, but based on the Snooze article, it seems the original artist is pretty cool with the role of public (i.e., transitory) art. Since the original mural series, the alley was already a palimpsest of graffiti and flyers. And gum. Is the new piece an improvement or not? You decide.

On a totally personal note, I’m flattered that one of my photos of the alley was included in the Arbor Update article. Here’s to Community Commons.