Archive for November, 2004

London’s bus campaign for Washington

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Bus-loving people will have already seen the London ‘My other car is a bus — new advertising campaign — I only wish I could get one of the bumper stickers!

That said: Washington’s buses could use some more practical help, especially with the capacity of the Metrorail system being stretched towards breaking.

We all know that rail […]

Get rich instantly

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

If you’ve got access to a computer and ate today, you almost certainly qualify as one of the world’s richest people.

This little calculator puts our wealth into perspective. Thanks to Chutney at MyIrony.com for the link.

Global Rich List

Reprise of “involuntary simplicity”; more ideas

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

I got a very thoughtful comment this morning on my “Involuntary Simplicity” article from March. I think my commentor had a few things worth saying, so the link.

A few more thoughts.

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I am not a vegetarian, but a lot of Universalist Christians are, and they get there from a moral direction. I just can’t imagine never […]

Celebrating Buy Nothing Day

Friday, November 26th, 2004

I know the culture-jam-istas are sometimes derided for making pointless drama in the face of our American culture of consumption (seen also in Europe, but when it comes to consumption, who can do a better job than Americans?) and today is the main day of observance.

Yes, I’m observing Buy Nothing Day (another site, for the […]

New directions for this blog

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

I’m investing a good part of my free time to make my life as sustainable as possible. I want to share what I find with others, and I’ll report that here. High on the list are practical helps for what looks to be the coming economic downturn and continuing cultural conflicts. Mix these with a […]

Get Rowell’s article on British Universalism

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

I’ve been doing this Universalist thing for about fifteen years now, and Unitarianism before that. I’m pretty well versed on several of the major themes within Universalism — perhaps more so than most — but I’ve probably forgotten more than I’ve retained. (That’s OK: recognizing the finite capacity of human beings before the infinitude of […]

Christian and Unitarian (or) Universalist: remedy to logical fallacy

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Now that it seems that Unitarian Universalist Christians are almost free of its culture of learned defensiveness, it seems time to point out one of the key fallacies that anti-Christians use to cow us.

The accusation goes something like: “Unitarian Universalists aren’t Christian, so you can’t really be a true Unitarian Universalist.” A variation is that […]

Judith Murray’s catechism

Friday, November 19th, 2004

Either I missed this, or forgot about it and have re-discovered:

Bonnie Hurd Smith has put Judith Murray’s catechism online.

This was one of my project long, long ago. The University of Georgia has a gigantic set of early American imprints on microcard (heavens!) but had no microcard printer. This meant I was transcribing it longhand, and […]

The joy of RSS feed

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Dear friend Katharine asks: where’s the RSS feed link?

Well’ here’s one: RSS2, and I’ll add one to the rather disorderly side menu in a sec’.

But here’s another plug for Firefox. On those blogs (or other sites) that have syndication, you get a tidy orange button in the corner to click.

More on the urban good life

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

I’m a bit more optimistic than Chutney at MyIrony.com (”America�s �blue� urban achipelago“) about winning the “heartland” — if nothing else, the division might be the nation’s undoing.

On the other hand, he’s got some good ideas. I’ll take him at his word and add a few, from the hustle-bustle of Logan Circle.

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