Uneasy Rhetoric

Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
Title says it all. I already mow high and use a push mower.
(tags: garden lawn organic environment)

RFI - Podcasting
Radio France Internationale is podcasting several programs, including “Journal en français facile,” a slowed-down version of the news in 10 minutes with a word or expression at the end of the show.
(tags: french language)

Radio France Podcasts
In fact, Radio France has a number of podcasts.
(tags: french language)

Wikitravel
Bringing the Wiki to the travel guide.
(tags: travel [...]

Sushi Eating HOWTO
An excellent resource on the ins and outs of eating sushi. I cop to being guilty of several of the faux pas the how-to mentions
(tags: sushi food japanese)

Politics - Charged up over battery disposal? - sacbee.com
Yet another reason to use rechargable batteries. “But they’re so inconvenient,” I hear people whine. [...]

“My mother was the first to say, ‘I’m sick and tired of hearing Sacramento is great because it’s close to San Francisco or close to Lake Tahoe,’ ” said Mark Friedman, the couple’s eldest son and president of the family’s Fulcrum Group of Companies, a real estate development and property management company.
(from a Bee story [...]

SinghCity posts over at Sac Rag about the fact that Bicycling Magazine recently named Davis the top “small town” for bicycling, again (yawn). Portland got top honors overall, again (yawn. yawn. zzzzz).
Why isn’t Sacramento on the list? Not even an honorable mention. (We didn’t make the “worst of” list either, thankfully.) [...]