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Saturday, May 10, 2003 |
Kick out the jams
Some of the stuff that's been accumulating on my drive in the "Blogfodder" folder:Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Ad Graveyard - a set of ads that were prepared, but for one reason or another never actually used.
In Sweden, gay partnership is legal. Even our king is married to a queen.
And found while Googling for that new Honda ad: The Commercial Closet. which collects both positive and negatively themed gay and lesbian ads.
Suzanne Vega will be hosting a public radio series called American Mavericks. The companion website includes two streaming music channels.
A website devoted to the Sedlec ossuary in Czechoslovakia. Very goth.
Star Trekkin', across the universe
Klingon - it's not just for crazy people anymore!According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Multnomah County, Oregon wants to have a Klingon translator available for client interviews.
If a patient speaks only Klingon, the county is obligated to respond with a Klingon interpreter. So officials have decided to include it with about 55 languages, some of which, such as Russian and Vietnamese, are widely spoken, and some, such as Dari and Tongan, are seldom spoken. ... "There are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak."
Update, Monday May 12, 2003: BoingBoing has a comment from Caveat Lector pointing to Seth Finkelstein points to the original story in the Oregonian, which is longer and makes it clearer that they would only actually pay someone if they ever found a patient who would communicate only in Klingon.
