Vox 2007-02-06T21:00:41Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22529c1f9604a/ QotD: Pleasepleaseplease! tag:vox.com,2007-02-06:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00d4141f48b33c7f 2007-02-06T21:00:41Z 2007-02-06T21:00:41Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom What was the one toy you wanted as a kid that your parents never bought you? Submitted by Princess of Darkness. A set of the World Book Encyclopdia. (I know, I was a weird kid. But I did become a librarian...)

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]]> You've got Yahoo in my Flickr!!! tag:vox.com,2007-02-06:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cd97113e304cd5 2007-02-06T20:53:27Z 2007-02-06T20:53:27Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Yahoo! sucks but I'm sticking with Flickr

My take on the recent brouhaha over "old skool" Flick members being forced to create a Yahoo! userid in order to continue using the service beyond March 15, 2007.

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]]> How much blood?? tag:vox.com,2007-01-29:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00d4141ab7c96a47 2007-01-29T06:28:01Z 2007-01-29T06:28:02Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

How Much Blood? (a CC remix)

So, how much more blood?

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]]> I wish to register a complaint. tag:vox.com,2006-11-24:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cd96feba524cd5 2006-11-24T01:31:24Z 2006-11-24T01:31:25Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I cannot even begin to explain this one: the Complaints Choir of Birmingham. And even if you don't speak a word of Finnish, don't miss the Complaints Choir of Helsinki. (Source: Seth Godin's blog)

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]]> Book Review: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization tag:vox.com,2006-11-19:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cd96fd6e1e4cd5 2006-11-19T23:53:46Z 2006-11-29T13:57:23Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century A Short History of Progress

Having read a couple of favourable reviews of this book, I decided to buy it. I "woke up" to the potential for catastrophic societal change in summer of 2005, when I first began reading about avian flu. Two books I had read prior to The Upside ...

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]]> The Flip Side of the Chinese Economic Miracle tag:vox.com,2006-11-19:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cd9788021bf9cc 2006-11-19T00:27:03Z 2006-11-19T18:03:06Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I can't believe it, but for once I am in agreement with Stephen Harper's government: I'm happy that they are raising the issue of human rights with the Chinese. The video in the link below comes from another one of the "new YouTubes", called met...

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]]> Radio Paradise tag:vox.com,2006-11-16:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cdf7e4e2a0094f 2006-11-16T17:52:35Z 2006-11-16T18:34:49Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Radio Paradise is an Internet based radio station devoted to offering alternative music. Based in Paradise, California, this little “radio station” is a throwback to those early experimental days of FM of the 1970’s. In those days a DJ was a disk...

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]]> U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong Backtracks on Bird Flu Warning: Why?? tag:vox.com,2006-11-09:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cdf39d805acb8f 2006-11-09T17:08:51Z 2006-11-09T17:08:52Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I still sneak a peek into The Flu Clinic discussion group, which is keeping an eye on recent global developments in the evolution of the H5N1 (bird flu) virus. The day before yesterday, a message from the U.S. State Department to its consulate s...

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]]> Mark Driscoll on Ted Haggard: Blame the Wife?! tag:vox.com,2006-11-06:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cdf7e1be82094f 2006-11-06T17:19:45Z 2006-11-13T06:25:19Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I'm sorry. I am really sorry. But the whole Ted Haggard debacle is such a spectacular trainwreck, with so many colourful, pretty secondary explosions, that I just cannot take my eyes off it. The latest launch into Ted-inspired lunacy comes ...

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]]> Mike Jones' "Massage" Ad tag:vox.com,2006-11-04:asset-6a00c22529c1f9604a00cdf7e12370094f 2006-11-04T17:39:41Z 2006-11-04T17:39:42Z Quiplash http://ryanschultz.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You know, I always choose my massage therapists by their ability to pose nude with strategically-placed stuffed animals. (link safe for work, but not so safe for good taste in advertising. but then again, it's not really massage this man was sell...

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