I got this as a special announcement from Freecycle East Bay
Dear Members,
It has been decided that pet postings will no longer be allowed in our Freecycle community. The most basic reasoning for this decision is that a pet should not be considered “stuff” and pet adoption through Freecycle does not further our goal of reducing landfill waste.
After speaking with representatives from the local humane society and the SPCA, we have decided to not allow pet postings on the East SF Bay Area Freecycle group anymore. Too many animals are given away to people who cannot, or will not, treat these animals as they should be treated. We have been advised against accepting free-to-good home posts for the following reason(s):
Paying an adoption fee discourages people from getting these pets and then when they lose interest, turning them out, giving them away, using them for breeding in puppymills, selling them to laboratories, cosmetic companies, as food for reptiles or even worse, to use to train another dog in the cruel world of dog fights.
Since Freecycle does not permit posts regarding money, they can’t be offered for an adoption fee. Please consider using our local resources for help in finding/placing pets. Links to SPCA and The Humane Society can be found under the files section of Freecycle.
If you want to comment or have a question about this policy, please contact us at FreecycleEastSFBayArea-owner@yahoogroups.com. Please do
*not* respond to the entire East SF Bay Area Freecycle list.
We thank you all again for sticking with us as we grow and adjust.
It’s all of you fantastic members that make our community such a success!
Thanks for your understanding and future compliance,
Your East SF Bay Area Freecycle Moderators Jennifer and Susan
Huh?
Etsy.com is a site to get buyers and sellers of hand-made merchandise together. It fills a gap that ebay doesn’t. Cool.
Nasal Haiku is
Something for you. Sniff Snuffle
Sniff. Achoo. Bless you.
and limericks would be simply wonderful!
A man had a nose sublime,
His girlfriend found it so fine,
When he lost his tissues and she had no issues
To pick it all the time!
There once was a man with a nose
The length of a garden hose
He whipped it about,
When the ladies were out
And they kissed it where ever they chose.
– Carlotta wrote these for me!!
The Serpent Mother is expected to use 3,000 gallons of propane on the playa.
500 gallons per night * 6 nights
We have:
1 250 gallon tank
2 80 gallon tanks
5 25 gallon tanks
(tanks only get filled to 90%)
2006 Burning Man Art review from Moze … including…
Serpent Mother – by the Flaming Lotus Girls. The FLGs have proven that they have the biggest COJONES on the playa year after year and this year looks like thier most ambitious project yet. There is a serpent made of steel. There is an egg that opens and closes. There are pyrotechics. There are hot tough girls handling explosives and manning propane tank farms. In my humble opinion, this will be the best built, most impressive project on the playa this year.
Hey look, I’m famous!
I went to the SRL Show, “GHOSTLY SCENES of INFERNAL DESECRATION” last night. Photos will be forthcoming. I think I only took short video clips…. photos just didn’t do it justice at all. The deafening sounds (literally… my earplugs weren’t NEARLY enough), blasts of heat and soot and smoke…
It was weird, awsome, frightening… avante garde technological pornography
“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.
I’ve been promising I’d show you photos of what I’ve been working on. Here’s a video that shows it off just a bit. This shows off only about 1/7th of the full length of what the sculpture will look like at Burning Man… but it gives you an idea.
Click on “Serpent Mother” in the middle of the screen
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film
(His other videos are pretty cool too)
The new Squidlist events calendar is incredibly sexy (from a web design point of view of course. It’s not like I wanna marry it or anything)
With 3 clicks I found, reviewed and put in my MS Outlook Calendar “Brains – a zombie art show both visceral and subtle.” Starting tonight at the Space Gallery in SF.
Squidlist is totally cutting edge.
I just spent 1/4 of a day diagnosing a problem that got totally wiped out because, as it turns out, Firefox and IE display XML differently.
In IE, rocketboom’s XML looks like this:
<title>rb_06_aug_04</title>
– <description>
– <![CDATA[ <p><b>story links:</b> <a href=”http://www.racewalk.com” targe
While the same file looks like this in Firefox:
<title>rb_06_aug_04</title>
−
<description>
<p><b>story links:</b> <a href=”http://www.racewalk.com” targe….
Hey! Firefox doesn’t show the CDATA tag! If you look in the source, it’s still there, Firefox just doesn’t show it in the browser. Should it?
On one hand, when you look at XML files, you just want to see everything since it’s machine code anyway. Maybe a little formatting would be nice and colors to go easy on the eyes but that’s it. On the other hand, it shouldn’t be shown because it’s meta-data. Grrrrrrr. Why can’t everything just be simple?