RIP, Granny D.
BBC:
Doris Haddock, who walked across the US at the age of 89 to press for changes in election campaign funding, has died at her home in New Hampshire.
Granny D, as she was widely known, trekked 3,200 miles (5,150km) in 1999 and 2000 to draw attention to the high cost of running for office in the US.
A candidate had “to sell his soul” or be a multi-millionaire, she told the BBC during her journey.
In 2004, she ran for the US Senate for the Democrats, losing 66% to 34%.
I started a new blog all about Jimmy Nicol and his 12 days as drummer of the world’s most popular band. Check it out.
Backstage at The Starwood after a Devo concert in 1978. Who wants to take concert photographs when you can make images like these backstage?
This year also marks thirty years since the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW, by the United Nations General Assembly. Seven countries that have not ratified the international treaty are the United States, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Nauru, Palau and Tonga.
I enjoyed these recent-ish episodes of This American Life. The first was produced by a supercool woman I went to college with — Alix Spiegel.
81 Words. The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
Somewhere Out There. Act II. Tom Girls. Lilly and Thomasina have a lot in common. They’re both 8 years old. And they were both born boys, although it became clear pretty early on that they’d prefer to be girls.
the comedy of John Lennon
The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day. JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).
— NASA
Needs sound. Turn your speakers up.
This has been this weekend’s mantra. Bacon, beer can, bacon…
Truman’s sunglasses are part of a Flickr pool called Defaced Presidents (the Queen of England gets her due too). Got this from Flavorwire, which I’m going to have to visit more often.
Since I got going on the Tumblr thing, I’ve noticed something weird and great: the abundance of Beatles Tumblrs. It’s an image-driven platform, so there’s no surprise that these blogs are 99 percent photos of the Fab Four. And there’s ample material since the Beatles were likely the most photographed band of all time, and maybe the most photographed individuals of all time.
Just as there are seemingly limitless images of John, Paul, George and Ringo, there are an apparant endness supply of Beatles Tumblrs. Here’s what I’ve found (you gotta love these names…): Beatles Daily, I Quite Like the Beatles, My Beatlemania, Beatle Love, The Church of Beatles, Fuck Yeah Beatles, Fuck Yeah The Beatles, My Beatles Gallery, Beatles Lulz, Beatles Forever, When We Was Fab, Bathroom Window, Got a Ticket to Ride, I’ll Never Lose Affection, Old Brown Shoe, Day Tripped, She’s Not a Girl Who Misses Much, It’s All Too Much, My Helter Skelter, Singalong Junk, Fucking Road, I’m Only Sleeping, I’ll Follow the Sun, Ringo Love, Ringo Knows Best, Fuck Yeah Ringo Star, Macca Obessesd, Macca Maniac, Fuck Yeah Paul McCartney, Fuck Yeah George Harrison, F Yeah George Harrison, George Harrison, Raw Georgie Love, Fuck Yeah John Lennon, Fuck Yeah Lennon, Lennon Love, Fuck Yeah John and Paul, Lennon Ringogh, Fuck Yeah John and Yoko, Fuck Yeah Paul and Linda, Fuck Yeah Paul and Jane, Maureen Starkey Love, Fuck Yeah Dhani Harrison, Amilene McCartney, Revolver 19, Forthlin Road, Little White Bewk, 7 Levels and Moptops.
UPDATE: Here’s a few more… Apple Scrufff, Random Beatles, Norwegian Wood 9, Little Darlin, Wisecrack Jester, Smitty Girl, Lyvyan, Fuck Yeah John George, Underneath the Sky. And last but not least: Destruction Count Me Out. Thanks for all the likes, reblogs and follows! Any more I’m missing?
