week links 8/2/09

creme-brulee-cartOn Monday I linked to this NYT story about food carts using Twitter to market their cuisine. I said, “I can think of a lot worse things to follow around than a creme brulee cart.” Alan said, “Stalking the wild creme brulee. There’s your title.

gatesOn Monday I updated my status to ask a question that had been bothering me: “Anyone else think that cop should have just walked away after Gates proved he was in his own house? So what if he was yelling. His house.
Turned out it had been bothering a lot of other people, too.

  • Cathy said, “Seems that everyone could have taken a breath. What about the neighbor who called cops? Shouldn’t he have known his neighborhood well enough not to call the cops on Gates? All would be well served now to stop yelling at each other and start communicating.
  • Lynne said, “What if burglars broke into a home and held someone hostage while making the father/husband answer the door to the cops? What if a particularly ballsy burglar tried to bluff it out? I know these are melodramatic, but what if? Wouldn’t you appreciate someone checking on your welfare?
  • Michael said, “In 1973 at my high school in Tampa, Fla., I got pulled aside by two undercover cops on suspicion of holding drugs, largely because I was a long-haired guy. The cops searched me. When I complained to our black dean of students, he said, “Now you know how I feel.”
    The Cambridge cop should have walked away, and Prof. Gates had every right to speech loudly. (He didn’t yell; he has bronchitis.)
  • Dorothy said, “Scarey to think a cop can arrest you for not making nice. Brave New World anyone?


    I swiped this off author Keith Snyder‘s page, a fabulous mashup of musicians playing alone in their rooms, edited together to make a single piece. Marilynne said, “That’s so cool. Everyone had to trust the others and trust that what came out of it was worth listening to (and watching).

    250px-lincoln_zephyr_06011701On Thursday I posted this link to the Wiki entry on the Lincoln Zephyr automobile, saying, “It’s family legend that my father drove the Alaska Highway in 1947 in a Lincoln Zephyr. Finally decided to work this into a book so I had to look it up. Does anyone else think Al Capone should be in the back seat?

  • Susan said, “Depends on whether Capone is alive or dead during the ride…?
  • Keith said, “That’s infinitely cooler than the Plymouth Valiant I did it in.
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