Tuesday, May 31, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, May 31, 2011)
(1)- ANTI-SQUIRREL REPORT -- To paraphrase blogger turned cookbook author Hank Shaw - if you wanted to starve to death in the wilderness, you'd have to try pretty hard. Squirrels are plentiful - overly so in some regions.

(2)- SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS -- Dee Starr and her children were arrested in a morning raid after selling $31 worth of marijuana to undercover police. Each was held on $100,000 bond. Each pled guilty. It was their first felony arrests.

(3)- M-I-T -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology led the world into the future for years with scientific innovations. Its brainwaves keep the US a superpower. But what makes MIT such a fertile ground for brilliant ideas?

(4)- THE ROSE -- The rose was made for symbolism, metaphor, allusion. Its beautiful flowers – in the wild, each bearing the symbolically charged number of five petals – bloom alongside vicious thorns.

(5)- PAPERLESS? -- The versatility, portability, and durability of paper, which is in many respects the ideal material support has long been recognized by media historians. The paperless office has been dismissed as a “myth.”

(6)- WHAT’S WELL READ? -- The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It's just numbers. Consider books alone. Consider books alone… even if you limit yourself to those since 1761…

(7)- THE MORALIST -- Swedish writer Stieg Larsson: What matters is the division of the world into good and evil, a division that splits sex into positive and negative experiences, then ripples out from that in fascinating ways.

(8)- BALENCIAGA AND DIOR -- The fashion industry continues, polycentric and multicultural, and on an enormous scale… The intertwining histories of two men who defined twentieth century European style.

(9)- HOW RAJAT GUPTA CAME UNDONE -- The former McKinsey head was a gilded member of corporate elite. But voice, divulging secret details of a Goldman board meeting to a convicted hedge fund manager, cost him more than money can buy.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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