| Why I Love California |
[15 May 2008|10:34am] |
California Supreme Court strikes down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional
The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.
The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.
"Under these circumstances, we cannot find that retention of the traditional definition of marriage constitutes a compelling state interest," the court said in a majority decision.
"Accordingly, we conclude that to the extent the current California statutory provisions limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, these statutes are unconstitutional."
The cases were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's monthlong same-sex wedding march, which took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction.
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| Marital Rating Chart |
[14 May 2008|11:48pm] |
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| Green Porn |
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Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kozyndan for sending me this. It's everything wonderful about Isabella Rosselini. I especially love the first short about earthworms...especially the worm anal jettison bit. Yeah, laughs and good times guaranteed, friends!
Oh, and what's this about a HUGE endorsement. About fucking time. But better late than never.
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| DIY your own Hermes Kelly bag |
[14 May 2008|04:09pm] |
Shit, I might have to try to make own out of felt...or with adamantium. Whichever I can get my hands on first.
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| If Sonic the Hedgehog was an acrobatic asian girl |
[14 May 2008|12:35pm] |
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| 4 Eyes for Food |
[13 May 2008|02:25pm] |
These would be appealing to all us asian kids with bad vision (aka 90% of us) and hearty appetites. Except how do I see what I'm eating when I take off my glasses? Oh well, I guess most of us were raised to just eat what we were served and to ask only after cleaning up your plate anyhow (unlike many anglo folks who'll suspiciously eye and question even a slide of white bread when presented).
[via Yanko Design]
*hahaha, on a total side note, I just noticed my iTunes displaying that I was listening to LeAnn Rimes "Best of" when it was actually The Pixies "Velouria". I frantically corrected the meta data, but I think the damage is already done. The secret is out.
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| The Great Filter |
[13 May 2008|09:14am] |
From these two facts it follows that the evolutionary path to life-forms capable of space colonization leads through a "Great Filter," which can be thought of as a probability barrier. (I borrow this term from Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University.) The filter consists of one or more evolutionary transitions or steps that must be traversed at great odds in order for an Earth-like planet to produce a civilization capable of exploring distant solar systems. You start with billions and billions of potential germination points for life, and you end up with a sum total of zero extraterrestrial civilizations that we can observe. The Great Filter must therefore be sufficiently powerful--which is to say, passing the critical points must be sufficiently improbable--that even with many billions of rolls of the dice, one ends up with nothing: no aliens, no spacecraft, no signals. At least, none that we can detect in our neck of the woods.
Now, just where might this Great Filter be located? There are two possibilities: It might be behind us, somewhere in our distant past. Or it might be ahead of us, somewhere in the decades, centuries, or millennia to come. Let us ponder these possibilities in turn...
-Where Are They?- Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
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| Fractal 23: Hellraiser meets IKEA |
[13 May 2008|09:10am] |
This has to be the coolest storage unit I've ever seen. Too bad the Fractal 23 (yes, 23 total drawers) is just an art piece. Come on, Takeshi Miyakawa, sell this design off to IKEA already!
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| Cool and Bored |
[12 May 2008|11:28am] |
Thanks to Jonathan, my homeboy from ATLA and Happy Mundane for this Monday morning diddy.
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[09 May 2008|01:21pm] |
It's funny, as much as I try to escape my Valley origins, I keep returning back to it with these Apartment Therapy House Tours. A few weeks ago I went back to Granada Hills, just a few miles away from where I grew up and smack dab next to where I grew up hiking and mountain biking, to visit an Eichler community. Check out the complete house tour here. These homes are so amazing, both Emily and I would consider a suburban lifestyle if we could call an Eichler a home. Midcentury atrium living is to die for.
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| The Biniki – A Bra For Your Butt |
[07 May 2008|03:37pm] |
I guess if my daily squat and lunge regimen alongside running routine doesn't pan out, I can always resort to this:
Heightening the ever-increasing pressures to conform to someone else’s ideals is this new invention known as the Biniki – put simply, it’s a bra for your butt. The patented Biniki is a US$30 series of straps you wear around the waist and under your bum cheeks to shape, tone, lift and support your derriere and the effect is significant and instant. There’s also a US$40 version for men (the Maniki) and a Throng, a US$30 device worn to achieve the same underwear-less look as a thong without having to floss in all the wrong places. We’d have to agree that a biniki-toned and lifted derriere certainly looks better, and we even suspect that sales of this new invention might well take off as it appeals to that well-known weak link in the human psyche, vanity.
[via GizMag]
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[05 May 2008|11:06am] |
kozyndan just IM'ed me this rad pro-Obama music video that will get stuck in your head like chewing gum on the carpet:
My trip up to SF this weekend was one huge food fest: farmer's market with artisanal goodies, deep dish pizza, vegetarian Millennium Restaurant, awesome Sunday morning potluck. Good times with friends and family, with a lot of funny feline hijinks. Photos on their way once I get through the piles of emails and posts that greeted me upon returning.
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[29 Apr 2008|11:10pm] |
Some of today's ambitious dogaterias seem to be stretching the definition of the hot dog to mean any sausage that fits in a hot dog bun.
Properly, though, it's a mild, smooth-textured sausage of beef, pork or a combination, lightly smoked and flavored with paprika and a sweet spice such as coriander or nutmeg. Old recipes don't always include garlic, but it's now standard.
The hot dog originated around Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the mid-1600s and made its way to Vienna around 1804. It arrived in this country from Germany and Austria simultaneously, which is why we call it either a frankfurter or wiener. Some American sausage makers now make the distinction that a wienie is blander than a frank.
It's made by grinding the meat very fine with seasonings and ice water, stuffing it in sausage casings, giving it a smoke flavor and cooking it in hot water (all hot dogs are precooked).
I'd settle for any of these right now. Instead, I've been eating soy Smart Dogs with sauerkraut. It's pretty good, but nothing like the genuine deal.
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[29 Apr 2008|02:10pm] |
Can you believe some people get to work in offices like these? These are all from Google, Zurich, where they seem to take play very seriously. Love it:
And if you're going to work in a cubicle and be a drone, why not just be upfront about it?
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[29 Apr 2008|01:08pm] |
Okay, if you're even moderately a hoops fan and know who Dikembe Mutombo is, I implore you to watch this video. I was crying with laughter, especially since Shane Battier sounds like Yoda. This video made my lunchtime.
Praying for Lakers vs. Celts.
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