Jun 28

Racism: Alive and Well

Politics and Current Events View Comments

1956 or 2006?

“In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a ‘whites only’ shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn’t sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn’t care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.”

Read more at While Seated or BBC.

(via kottke.org)

written by Kyle

Jun 27

PicLens

Art, Geek Stuff View Comments

Just came across a neat Firefox plugin for Flickr addicts (you know who you are) or anyone who enjoys browsing digital photos via the web: PicLens.

PicLens enables full-screen slideshows and photo browsing and supports integration with a number of popular photo sites:

  • Flickr
  • Facebook
  • Google Images
  • Yahoo Images
  • Friendster
  • Picasa Web Albums

written by Kyle

Jun 21

Bet You Didn’t Know

Miscellaneous View Comments

Disney World’s parking lot is bigger than Manhattan.

(via swissmiss via Andy Grayson.)

written by Kyle