Yum & Yuk

I love good business cards - here are two that combine form and function: bike patch business card & bike tool business card. (OK, and a model airplane card, because that's just fun).

Love this NYTimes slideshow on the foods kids love to eat. Reminds me of being a kid and my mom making plates of different foods - having things cut up in little pieces and arranged seemed to make everything taste better. To be truthful, it's not so different from how I eat now. Picky eaters of the world, unite!

Image: source. Love the light, the bursts of florescent color, the whiteness.

A short film on the desk. (more interesting than it sounds - on workspace, on being nomadic.)

From Salon, "Hate crimes laws aren't the answer." "Until the government grants the LGBT community equality, society will continue to quietly condone such crimes." As someone who does not believe in the efficacy of the current criminal justice system, but is also extremely concerned about hate crimes, I find hate crimes legislation to be a complicated topic. But the bottom line for me is that I do not believe that increased criminalization of hate crimes gets to the root of the problem, just as the suggested criminalization of "bullying" is not, in my opinion, the appropriate response to the recent spate of queer juvenile suicides. As the author of this article writes, until bias is gone from our laws (laws governing family, employment, and all areas of life) and our society, no hate crimes legislation will stop these horrific crimes. "There will always be people who act with extreme violence, for whatever reason. If some of these people are truly motivated by bias alone, the way to fight this violence is to banish the bias from our laws. For how can we expect to confront bias crimes, supposedly predicated on anti-gay sentiment, if the legal framework of our society actually supports their biases?"

Does anyone out there listen to music while swimming? Looking for advice about listening to music while in the pool (also interested in watches that track laps/calories/distance/heart rate). Thanks for any suggestions!