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Claude Levi-Strauss: 100!

Happy Birthday to the amazing and inspiring Claude Levi-Strauss. He turned 100 yesterday… Quote:“He represents an extremely subversive vision with his interest in populations that were disdained. He paid careful attention, not touristically but profoundly, to …

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Shop Shop Shop!

Jeff needs to pay his storage unit fee…! Just what everyone wants: Angry Vegan T-Shirts! [Addition: It is SAFE to shop our products…Amazingly sad, the zealousness of consumption lead to death…From the NYTIMES:By JACK HEALYPublished: November …

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Truth in comics…

I saw the following comic posted on my favorite chess blog,Mig Greengard’s The Daily Dirt Chess Blog:I need to have this posted over my desk… http://xkcd.com/

Hikaru Nakamura!

Hikaru Nakamura, my favorite US chess player, won the Cap d’Agde 2008, beating former world champ Anatoly Karpov and perennial world top-ten player Vassily Ivanchuk along the way…stoked me out, what a great player…and at the …