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Group asks patrons to enjoy 'Fair Eats'

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:00 -0500

Group asks patrons to enjoy 'Fair Eats':

ATLANTA - A coalition of churches and advocates for the poor wants couples to share some of their affection on Valentine’s Day with the men and women who serve them their candlelit dinner.

Moe had a little too much fun this morning

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:43:59 -0500

Moe had a little too much fun this morning

Merging Gray and Green

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:53:18 -0500

Merging Gray and Green:

In my ongoing dialogue with DCCK’s “under 30” employees, as well as the ones I have with the countless students or young leaders I meet on my journeys, I am asked, more often than almost anything…

Vintage Ad Browser

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:28:43 -0500

Vintage Ad Browser

Big Chair Coffee—Anacostia’s First Stand-Alone Coffee Shop That Anyone Can Remember—Opened Today

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:14:54 -0500

Big Chair Coffee—Anacostia’s First Stand-Alone Coffee Shop That Anyone Can Remember—Opened Today:

People craving a cup of joe in Anacostia can finally look further than their own kitchens and office coffee machines. Big Chair Coffee ‘N Grill—located on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave—opened…

Best article ever, in so many ways. (From today’s...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:32:51 -0500

Best article ever, in so many ways. (From today’s Northwest Current)

Shaughness attributed his win to “lots of practice not pedaling” and the fact that “nobody except Mike Dolan showed up.”

Bike safety course planned Saturday

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:23:10 -0500

Bike safety course planned Saturday:

The North Oconee River Greenway and BikeAthens will hold a bicycle safety class from 1-3 p.m. on the greenway.

Tradition: Some Beg to Differ

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:23:09 -0500

Tradition: Some Beg to Differ:

This bumper sticker neatly expresses some conventional wisdom of the conservation elite: Hunting and fishing aren’t just pastimes, they are “traditions.” Unfortunately, that seems to be a minority…

Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series | Blue Avocado

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:39:15 -0500

Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series | Blue Avocado:

Good point at the beginning—recruit for what someone can do (i.e. accounting) rather than who they are (a CPA or whatever).

Extension of CiviCRM for Voter Canvassing

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:52:09 -0500

Extension of CiviCRM for Voter Canvassing:

As an extension to our implementation of CiviCRM to support my work as a state representative, we have created a voter canvassing module. It has been tested under Drupal 6.14 and Civicrm 3.01.

It…

Rule 422. You better not pout.

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:32:58 -0500

Rule 422. You better not pout.:

Rule 422. You better not pout.

all done with the tree

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:48:34 -0500

all done with the tree

moe doesnt know what to think of the canaan fir

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:28:18 -0500

moe doesnt know what to think of the canaan fir

Intown Uptown Inn (4/5) on Yelp

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:39:03 -0500

Intown Uptown Inn (4/5) on Yelp:

Let me preface this with the fact that I’ve never stayed here because I live two blocks away. However, the Intown Uptown hosted a fundraiser for the Friends of 16th Street Heights Parks, and Izzy…

Edelman Acquires Grassroots Enterprises

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:33:08 -0500

Edelman Acquires Grassroots Enterprises:

The only survivor of the political dot-com boom that I know of has finally been gobbled up — nothing’s eternal in business, my friends. If I remember correctly, back in the late ’90s Grassroots…

A Place for Cycles

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:10 -0500

A Place for Cycles:

Designed by Donald C. Paine Jr. of KGB Design Studio, this boldly shaped pavilion is a storage and repair facility for bicyclists. It is located to the west side of Union Station.

An interview…

very wet zombies on lamont st.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:46:43 -0400

very wet zombies on lamont st.

Obese skunk addicted to bacon sandwiches

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:41:49 -0400

Obese skunk addicted to bacon sandwiches:

caro:

baconbaconbacon:

Crazy. Apparently his owners in England fed him 2 bacon sandwiches a day, and now he’s double his ideal weight

via charlottesweb

photo via buzzfeed

AND HIS NAME IS MR. BUMBLE.

Poll: Environmental Involvement Tied to Empowerment, Confidence

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:51:04 -0400

Poll: Environmental Involvement Tied to Empowerment, Confidence:

Photo: C1ssou via Flickr
Now here’s a survey that goes beyond the same old same old questions and answers! It’s the Civic Health Index, brought to you by the National Council on Citizenship. The bad…

Branding is dead, more or less

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:58:32 -0400

Branding is dead, more or less:

Here’s someone else saying branding is dead, this time at ClickZ: Branding Today: Why It’s Ineffective, Irrelevant, Irritating, and Impotent. Here’s the main point:

Branding that involves…