Sunday, January 08, 2012
Interesting Links
It is January and we have a new batch of interesting links for you, dear readers. If you haven't seen'em all, check out old posts by clicking here and scrolling down. There are hours and hours of semi-captivating material, time wasting Alice fell down a hole and landed deep in the internet stuff.
This week we bring you a fascinating video from one of our teen contributors who regularly sends the Clarion Content good material for our "What are They Watching" column. This video can't qualify for "What are They Watching" status because by the standards of the Google-verse, it has a mere 32,000 hits.
It is nonetheless amazing. Watch as the woman below makes a beguiling transformation.
Into Drake with just make-up
The next two interesting links are both politics related. The first is more important than the second. From Robert Wright, a senior editor at The Atlantic, it speaks most cogently and succinctly about why Ron Paul is an asset in the political debate, whether one agrees with his views or finds him repugnant. Essentially Ron Paul is the only candidate from either major party who attempts to, "imagine how the world looks to people other than Americans." Those folks and their perspective make up 95.5% of the world's population. Read Wright's whole take here.
The second politics links is more of an inside baseball piece about the New Hampshire primary and the latest Republican Presidential debate. Long time Clarion Content fave and Esquire veteran, Charles P. Pierce, wittily dissects the milquetoasts1 that make up2 the Republican party field. It is hilariously laugh-out-loud funny, "[Romney] running through all four of the expressions of which his face is capable, beginning with 'Lordly Disdain' and ending with 'Flog The Butler'."
It gets more caustic from there and while it is perfectly safe for work the language is distinctly PG-13. Just fyi. Read the whole piece here.
Share your interesting links with us at ClarionContent at gmail dot com and read about them in our next edition.
Notes
1Michelle Bachmann took the Republican's last personality off the campaign trail to the sidelines after Iowa.
2Just couldn't get away from that word in this piece.
Labels: how to, interesting links, Pop Culture
Monday, May 01, 2006
How to: The Clarion Content
Hello there, dear visitor!
We imagine that if you have followed this link you are looking for a little more information about the Clarion Content.
The Clarion Content is a Durham, North Carolina based internet journal. We have drawn inspiration from, among many, many, other sources, Ben Franklin's, Poor Richard's Almanac. We aspire to be a clarion call to action on important political issues, but also we hope to inform and entertain across a wide array of topics, from food to sports to practical advice to things that need to be invented.
Please note, in effort to keep the main Clarion Content page clean and readable, yet still handle the massive information flows of the 21st century, we have recently broken the Clarion Content into subsections; Politics and Policy, Pop Culture, and Sports. These subsections will sometimes have articles that are also on the main Clarion Content page. They will also have other shorter pieces and more topic specific links.
Incidentally on the matter of links, possibly you already know, but for those who don't: anything you roll the mouse over that comes up underlined is link. They are in a different color font, too. These links will transport you to fabulous and outlandish places. Please be aware that a link implies neither endorsement by the Clarion Content of said destination, nor that the destination endorses the Clarion Content. They are just grist for the mill, food for thought. They don't work for or with us, and we don't necessarily even agree with them. (It's a big scary internet out there, don't believe everything you read.)
We welcome your comments and do our best to respond to them. Comments can be made with a free Google ID (if you have Gmail, you already have one,) or anonymously.
We also encourage reader submitted material. See something cool, outrageous, outlandish, important? Have a great cause or website? Send us the link.
Our community building is only as good as our collective contributions.
We are also always actively soliciting guest columnists. We are open to all points of view, especially those that challenge and therefore stimulate our own. Civilized argument is the crucible of great ideas.
If you are interested in being a guest columnist or have any other questions, thoughts or concerns that you prefer we address directly, please do not hesitate to email us at: clarioncontent@gmail.com
Please also email us if any of the links are inoperable. (though do be aware that some links will eventually age away...)
We imagine that if you have followed this link you are looking for a little more information about the Clarion Content.
The Clarion Content is a Durham, North Carolina based internet journal. We have drawn inspiration from, among many, many, other sources, Ben Franklin's, Poor Richard's Almanac. We aspire to be a clarion call to action on important political issues, but also we hope to inform and entertain across a wide array of topics, from food to sports to practical advice to things that need to be invented.
Please note, in effort to keep the main Clarion Content page clean and readable, yet still handle the massive information flows of the 21st century, we have recently broken the Clarion Content into subsections; Politics and Policy, Pop Culture, and Sports. These subsections will sometimes have articles that are also on the main Clarion Content page. They will also have other shorter pieces and more topic specific links.
Incidentally on the matter of links, possibly you already know, but for those who don't: anything you roll the mouse over that comes up underlined is link. They are in a different color font, too. These links will transport you to fabulous and outlandish places. Please be aware that a link implies neither endorsement by the Clarion Content of said destination, nor that the destination endorses the Clarion Content. They are just grist for the mill, food for thought. They don't work for or with us, and we don't necessarily even agree with them. (It's a big scary internet out there, don't believe everything you read.)
We welcome your comments and do our best to respond to them. Comments can be made with a free Google ID (if you have Gmail, you already have one,) or anonymously.
We also encourage reader submitted material. See something cool, outrageous, outlandish, important? Have a great cause or website? Send us the link.
Our community building is only as good as our collective contributions.
We are also always actively soliciting guest columnists. We are open to all points of view, especially those that challenge and therefore stimulate our own. Civilized argument is the crucible of great ideas.
If you are interested in being a guest columnist or have any other questions, thoughts or concerns that you prefer we address directly, please do not hesitate to email us at: clarioncontent@gmail.com
Please also email us if any of the links are inoperable. (though do be aware that some links will eventually age away...)
Sections Banner pictures
As you may or may not be aware, dear reader, the Clarion Content's editorial staff changes the banner pictures over each section in our, "New Posts in the Sections" feature only when there is new content. A new picture is supposed to signal that there has been new material posted.
The pictures may or may not relate in anyway to the content. The photos accompanying the actual articles tend to relate more topically. These shots are for visual entertainment. They are stretched horizontally to approximately 300 by 50. We always come up with these images through the Google Image search page.
We thought it might be a fun game, read: time waster, for you to get to guess at what words we used to search. Hence this post...
You will always be able to come here and find the answers to what phrase was searched to generate a picture, as well as an original link back to where we found the image.
Happy guessing! We hope that you enjoy.
scroll down
Sports
words searched=style baloney
picture originated here
Politics and Policy
words searched=tilted earth
picture originated here
Pop Culture
words searched=fear the wall
picture originated here
The pictures may or may not relate in anyway to the content. The photos accompanying the actual articles tend to relate more topically. These shots are for visual entertainment. They are stretched horizontally to approximately 300 by 50. We always come up with these images through the Google Image search page.
We thought it might be a fun game, read: time waster, for you to get to guess at what words we used to search. Hence this post...
You will always be able to come here and find the answers to what phrase was searched to generate a picture, as well as an original link back to where we found the image.
Happy guessing! We hope that you enjoy.
scroll down
Sports
words searched=style baloney
picture originated here
Politics and Policy
words searched=tilted earth
picture originated here
Pop Culture
words searched=fear the wall
picture originated here
