Asian Recipes . with herbs, culture, ingredients, glossaries and cooking from Afghanistan to Vietnam.

The Ad Critic: Super Bowl XXXIV Coverage If you don’t watch football but you want to stay attuned to the state of the art in the battle for your heart, mind and bank balance, (or maybe you just enjoy ads! My wife’s father was an advertising executive and she tells me that, growing up in her household, commercials were watched with rapt attention and the programs in between were just interruptions one could talk through) this site will provide quicktime videos of all the TV commercials from this year’s Superbowl.

Pro-choice Democratic women candidates: EMILY’s List

“identifies viable pro-choice Democratic women candidates for key federal and statewide

offices.

EMILY’s List has helped elect six pro-choice Democratic women to the U.S. Senate, 44 to

the U.S. House, and three women governors.”

Caught this comment at the Evhead weblog: “I predict, the next big thing in

weblogging will be actually have a rest of a site — wherein, the weblog is but a feature.

Ah hell, what am I talking about, that sounds like work.” Well, I’ve got you covered; for some of us newcomers to weblogging, the site came first…

BBC News | EUROPE | Profile: Controversy and Joerg Haider Some details on the Austrian far-right leader with a history of praising Nazi policy, whose inclusion in the new governing coalition is so controversial. The next leader of Austria?

New Scientist: Backwards to the future A paper published in the last days of 1999 suggests there is no theoretical reason why there might not be regions of the universe in which time runs backwards.

Asian Recipes . with herbs, culture, ingredients, glossaries and cooking from Afghanistan to Vietnam.

The web has grown to over a billion unique documents, a new study asserts.

The Ad Critic: Super Bowl XXXIV Coverage If you don’t watch football but you want to stay attuned to the state of the art in the battle for your heart, mind and bank balance, (or maybe you just enjoy ads! My wife’s father was an advertising executive and she tells me that, growing up in her household, commercials were watched with rapt attention and the programs in between were just interruptions one could talk through) this site will provide quicktime videos of all the TV commercials from this year’s Superbowl.

Getspeed.com. Find out if broadband internet access services are available at your location by entering your zipcode.

The American Experience | Race for the Superbomb | Nuclear Blast Mapper My most passionate activism has been for disarmament. I went to the UK once just because I had been so enamored of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). I helped Helen Caldicott and others found Physicians for Social Responsibility when I was a pre-med and medical student. In large measure, I was “turned” by my exposure to the BBC film “The War Game,” a ground’s-eye neighborhood view of the effects of a nuclear attack that I believe was banned in the UK for many years because it was so disturbing. (Do you remember the network media event of “The Day After”? This was a decade earlier, and without the Hollywood bathos and glitz.) Disarmament activism works best when it brings the effects of a nuclear blast home to your dinner table, as does this site. Here is what happens to my part of the country from a 25 megaton air blast.

Fantastic Prayers

“Fantastic Prayers describes an urban landscape inscribed with memories of lives

lived, objects possessed or discarded, and places inhabited. In eight magical

environments, you become a visitor, who, like an archeologist, is invited to dig

through and uncover fragmentary narratives, laden with physical and

psychological histories.”

“Don’t do housework on

New Year’s Day. Sweeping dirt out through

the front door was akin to sweeping away the

family.”

—One tradition to consider following

today, the inauguration of the

Chinese New Year of the Dragon. Happy new year! I was born in a year of the dragon myself.

Pro-choice Democratic women candidates: EMILY’s List

“identifies viable pro-choice Democratic women candidates for key federal and statewide

offices.

EMILY’s List has helped elect six pro-choice Democratic women to the U.S. Senate, 44 to

the U.S. House, and three women governors.”

Caught this comment at the Evhead weblog: “I predict, the next big thing in

weblogging will be actually have a rest of a site — wherein, the weblog is but a feature.

Ah hell, what am I talking about, that sounds like work.” Well, I’ve got you covered; for some of us newcomers to weblogging, the site came first…