Buy Nothing Day coming up

This year it's November 27/28, according to Adbusters. HM will abstain from buying on those days. In fact, HM plans to try to make this a Donation-only Christmas. Pick a few charities and give to them in honor of others. Nobody needs another knick-knack anyway.

San Fran '58

This is just a bit older than Honestmonkey. He's always enjoyed his trips to SF. Interesting in how it's not changed a great deal from 1958, at least the bits that are shown here.

San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo.

Deepest Trash bin

Thought this was amusing, and it seemed to work well. Perhaps they could vary the sounds - clanking, explosions, monster burps, etc.

Ze Frank

Honestmonkey had been a big fan of Ze Frank back when he was doing his show a few years ago. Ze quit after a year and went on to other things. HM just found out that Ze has videos at Time.com called "That Makes Me Think Of..." (here's the latest one of them, which eventually links to others). Cool. Here's the link to Ze's page, which has links to the videos as well. Ze also had a very good talk at TED, which is out there somewhere.

Not necessarily advised, though

You can flip-off a cop, legally. The law, specifically the Constitution, is on your side. At least according to this article in Time. As indicated, this is not always your best course of action, because the police might issue you a "disorderly conduct" ticket or arrest you, regardless of whether you have the right to or not. Obviously, it's up to you to decide whether the possible court proceedings, etc, will be worth it. Probably better to keep your cool.

I doubt it's a wooden spoon

Honestmonkey stole this from here, but thought it gives a very good explanations of his beliefs, so he wanted to include it.

HM especially likes the part that indicates that even if you see something that appears "miraculous" you can't attribute that to some divine being. All you can say is "we just don't know."

Glaciers

"Ninety-five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shinking." James Balog

Here is the link to a very interesting talk about this. Scary too.

TED Talks, James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss