• A smart and practical guide on how to sell a car in LA, via Craigslist, no less. Read the comments for a lesson on how trolls can ruin a good e-discussion.
• “Los Angeles is much more interesting than New York, visually.”. “Los Angeles is a metonym, where meanings are arranged next to each other, New York is a metaphor, where meanings are stacked and substituted for each other. Los Angeles is synchronic, about the arrangement of objects in space in the present, New York is diachronic, about the way the same small space changes over time.”



• Indie media: Why it’s important, why it’s often shut down, and why we have so little of it (PDF). A TED talk (mp3, mp4) from Sasa Vucinic, founder of Media Development Loan Fund, which applies venture-capital principles to finance sustainable media companies in nations emerging from repressive regimes.
• My updated list of eco-friendly lotions. Lemme know if you have additions, revisions, etc.

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