Archive for March, 2007
Nothing New is the New News
Saturday, March 31st, 2007In other words… Syria is the new Cuba Nau is the new Patagonia Ahnu is the new Keen Local is the new Organic Bush is the new Nixon Blogs are the new Resume Blogs are the new Borg Porn is the new Crack Bamboo is the new Cotton Individuality is the new Conformity MFA is […]
Is It Springtime Yet?
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Blog Journalism Rising
Friday, March 16th, 2007I keep raving about the work of Josh Marshall and the Talking Ponits Memo crew—and how they are reinvigorating (and reinventing) politcal journalism. Well, the Columbia Journalsim review sure thinks TPM got it right with the US Attorneys purge story. “If you wanted to force the issue — and we would be surprised if some […]
An Offsetting Truth?
Thursday, March 15th, 2007I understand the worry over carbon offsets. There is a real danger that those who buy offsets will forget about the root problems that are causing global warming. It’s a legitimate concern. If you can simply offset the carbon your car emits, why bother to adjust the tire pressure for better mileage? If you can […]
Link-o-rama!
Thursday, March 15th, 2007What to do when you are too busy to post but have been compulsively reading all sorts of worthwhile stuff? It’s time for Link-o-rama: * Well RED is just what we thought it would be. I truly believe consumer-driven charity can work. The big mistake here was that the high-end marketing and PR firms used […]
Green Machine
Friday, March 9th, 2007According to Biccylce Retailer, Huffy just rolled out its 500,000 Green Machine and “’Kids are posting their best Green Machine moves on YouTube,’ said Ray Thomson, vice president of marketing and product development at Huffy.” I think my first backcountry adventure began at 5 years old on Green Machine when I convinced a few neighborhood […]
Vanity of Vanities
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007Writing is both the most meaningful and the most narcissistic of human undertakings. Or so says Pankaj Mishra in this month’s The Believer. His response to the question of how can you be a writer and still practice Buddhist non-attachment really hit home for me: “But so much of writing is fed by vanity and […]
No Snow Is the Least of Our Problems
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Here is a reprint of an editorial on global warming and the snowsports industry I wrote for the SIA SnowPress Show Daily. No Snow Is the Least of Our Problems Global warming is a fact. According to James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, we have 10 years […]
Testing in the Eldo BC
Monday, March 5th, 2007Isaac, John Devlin and I got out into the Eldora backcountry this weekend to test hardshells for Outside’s Fall Buyer’s Guide. The conditons: sweaty. This snow looks good, but it was actaully pretty heavy technical skiing. Nice soft stuff in the shadows, but anything exposed was tricky (as is evident by the weird, sloppy lines […]
Confetti on the Charles?
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Baseball Prospectus has posted analyses of how each MLB team can win the World Series. Keith Woolner (who invented VORP, or Value Over Replacement Player, stats, which measure how many more runs/wins/etc. a new player is worth to a team, and is a big Red Sox fan) predicts that “Combined, the offense and pitching in […]