Two columns that James pointed out to me with interesting points: A New York Times column by Frank Rich about the possible demise of the rigid, inflexible Republican party and a Washington Post column by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais that labels our generation: the Millenials. Each are related to each other, and are fascinating reads.
The CSS Zen Garden is a showcase of web designing skills. Developed as a way to prove that CSS is a valuable web design tool, the website is basically a template which is downloadable. Without changing any of the content, web designers can manipulate the CSS script to create their own beautifully imaginative version of the template and submit it. The archives are full of examples of how websites don't have to look so boring and stiff.
Along my travels, I found a blog called Stuff White People Like, a self-depricating series of articles about, well, stuff white people like. Ranging from "Difficult breakups" to "Knowing what's best for poor people" to "Japan" and "Kitchen gadgets" and "Apologies." It's really aimed towards the white urban 20s-30s hipsters that hang out in coffee shops; after all, the red neck country white person would wonder where "The Republican Party," "Guns," "Hunting," and "Pickup trucks" are. Still, it's funny to read a heavy satire written by white people for anyone who likes to make fun of white people (answer: Just about everybody).
Here is a carbon calculator to determine roughly just how much carbon you are producing in the environment. Obviously, calculating the carbon we create is difficult, as everything we do indirectly causes carbon, such as buying anything. Transportation of the merchandise, energy in creating it and its packaging, etc. really starts to add up. Luckily, this only determines the number by your domestic consumption of energy at home and how much you drive. Less guilt!
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I really like the term "Millenials". "Generation Y" identifies us merely as an extension of the disaffected Gen X, which is really a disservice. "Internet Generation" as a moniker is also deficient, because there are social changes which while nurtured by the rise of the internet are not solely caused by it.
It's interesting to see the common refrain of 1982 being defined as the starting birth year for the Millenials. That happens to be the year I was born, and I think I was right on the leading edge of this social shift. I do tend to identify more with peers a few years my younger rather than those in the opposite direction.
In any case it's good to see the younger generation start to show some civic interest and political activity. Here's to a vibrant American political landscape.
I enjoy the term as well, though it makes us sound somewhat eschatalogical/messianic.
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