Entries from May 2006

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/articles.html Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03 Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from [...]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Treehouse By Design

Some nifty treehouse designs here Via Pigdog

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

HBO cancels Deadwood

Cocksuckers. Ian McShane's Al Swearengen is one of the great villains of all time. It's a pity that there probably won't be a fourth season.

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Scarpar — motorized snowboard

Via flutterby, comes this video of the Scarpar motorized snowboard in action.

Friday, May 26th, 2006

The Last Unicorn Audiobook

Some of you may be interested to know that an unabridged audiobook of Peter Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” (read by Beagle himself) is now avialable: http://www.conlanpress.com/html/audiobooks.html

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Cat Pack

Now I know what to get for Christmas… Via

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

The virtual moneylender

Via Boing Boing http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/05/22/prosper/print.html The virtual moneylender A new Web site allows you to borrow money from strangers in cyberspace. It may even free you from credit card debt and the usurers at the local payday loan center. By Farhad Manjoo May. 22, 2006 | The middle-aged woman in Janesville, Wis., who recently posted a [...]

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

History of immigration laws

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm 1795 Naturalization Act restricts citizenship to “free white persons” who reside in the United States for five years and renounce their allegiance to their former country. 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts permit the President to deport any foreigner deemed to be dangerous. A revised Naturalization Act imposes a 14-year residency requirement for prospective [...]

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

U.S. Immigration Debate Is a Road Well Traveled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700721_pf.html U.S. Immigration Debate Is a Road Well Traveled Early-20th-Century Concerns Resurface By Michael Powell Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 8, 2006; A01 NEW YORK — They were portrayed as a disreputable lot, the immigrant hordes of this great city. The Germans refused for decades to give up their native tongue and raucous beer [...]

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Origins of the U.S. immigration system

From Madison Grant and the Racialist Movement: The effect was felt at both the state and federal level. Twenty-four states passed laws encouraging sterilization of those who were retarded, insane, or had criminal records. At the Federal level, in 1921, Albert Johnson, head of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, began a series of [...]