A new issue of the Partnership (the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research; 1191-9593) has just been published. As I’m the Section Editor for the Media / Publications Reviews section for the journal, I have a particular affinity with this particular journal.
The Media / Publications Reviews section completed 17 reviews of 18 books in this latest issue (Vol 3. Iss. 1). Of course, there’s much more — so take a look today!
Our bi-annual stats are in!
We have earned our artists $58 million dollars in projects from January 1 2008 - June 1 2008. A staggering amount of these projects earned individual artists over $25,000 dollars per project! Our buying community is stronger than ever!!
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS AND BUYERS!
Our top artist earner in these six months is….
Dakhi B. (name withheld) earning $750,000 USD for her mask based on original Mbimbo tribe ritual baby sacrifice mask, made from human bones collected in the Sembala region (pictured right).
Thank you to Georgia Ministries South Charles Street congregation for their enormous contribution!
Yesterday I started a John McCain photoshop contest.
You are supplied this image:
And you can do anything you want with it.
Here are the first three submissions from members of the Wieden+Kennedy studio:
Christin Spagnoli
Tony Frusciante
Chris Larson
Jesse Snyder
Evan Daniel
If you would like to make one you can email it to justin.lowe@wk.com
Wired Magazine
May 19, 2008
The path to virtue, we all know, begins with organics. Meat, milk, fruit, veggies — organic products are good for our bodies and good for the planet. Except when they’re not good for the planet. Because while there may be sound health reasons to avoid eating pesticide-laden food, and perhaps personal arguments for favoring the organic-farmers’ collective, the truth is that when it comes to greenhouse gases, organics can be part of the problem.
Take milk. Dairy cows raised on organic feed aren’t pumped full of hormones. That means they produce less milk per Holstein — about 8 percent less than conventionally raised cattle. So it takes 25 organic cows to make as much milk as 23 industrial ones. More cows, more cow emissions. But that’s just the beginning. A single organically raised cow puts out 16 percent more greenhouse gases than its counterpart. That double whammy — [...]
