Andrea HarnerVote Barackoli.com. It's good for you!Michael Jackson's shopping get-up- July 11, 2008 This image makes me want to cry. So tragic. For the record, I refuse to call him Wacko Jacko because calling him that is like pointing to a homeless person and laughing, "you don't have a house! you don't have a house!" via BuzzFeed.http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/michael_jackson.html Top 10 weirdest and cutest animals!- July 11, 2008 For more info on the fellas click here.http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/top_10_weirdest.html Stacking food on animals!!! WARNING: IT'S DEADLY CUTE. I FLATLINED FOR A FEW MINUTES.- July 10, 2008 Thanks to Amy Wood for this!!http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/stacking_food_o.html Wesleyan alum Eric Asimov on wine! NY Times- July 9, 2008 As you may know, I am a huge fan of taste tests so this article, Wines Pleasures: Are They All in Your Head is particularly interesting to me. Yet the rating system has bred an attitude toward wine that ignores context, which is perhaps more important a consideration to the enjoyment of wine than anything else. The proverbial little red wine, so delicious in a Tuscan village with your sweetie, never tastes the same back home in New Jersey. Meanwhile, the big California cabernet, which you...http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/wesleyan_alum_e.html Please call me Veronica Mars- July 8, 2008 I am so completely obsessed with Veronica Mars. I'll admit that when I started watching the show, which I did simply because I love and have to watch all PIsleuthdetective related shows, I wasn't immediately captured by it. It was easy to mock the oh-so-clever writing and the silly setting but last night I had a major realization: Veronica Mars is the coolest girl on earth. The character really is an impressive blend of precocious, sarcastic, funny, sweet, not syrupy sweet and delightfully.http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/please_call_me.html Reading test: Amazing!- July 8, 2008 via BuzzFeed!http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/reading_test_am.html The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By John Grisham- July 7, 2008 This book was a heart-wrenching and eye-opening read. Grisham tells the story of Ron Williamson and makes you realize how colossally human we are: Our actions are mostly fueled by good yet our pathologies intervene. Also, we harbor the capacity to commit cruel acts solely for ego survival as painfully portrayed by the Ada, Oklahoma police department. While it was certainly troubling to read the process of how such an atrocity happened, the book is also, as the best investigative...http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/the_innocent_ma.html Civil Rights as pondered by LA County Fourth Graders, 1970- July 7, 2008 Thanks to Althea for this!http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/civil_rights_as.html Jonah Peretti talks viral videos on NPR, I'm a proud wife series!- July 7, 2008 Talk of the Nation, June 30, 2008 When a video clip on the Internet gains widespread popularity through e-mail and other venues of Internet sharing, it becomes what's known as a "viral video." The often highly pixelated and wobbly images have such an air of authenticity about them that it's hard to watch without thinking, "Maybe I can make a video that goes viral!" The truth is, it's not only harder than it looks; people are paid a great deal of money to make things go viral. Internet...http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/jonah_peretti_t.html Case closed. Sort of. By Michelle Chen, NewsDay- July 7, 2008 What's so thrilling about an unsolved murder case A lot, I say! After about 20 years, the high-profile Martin Tankleff murder case has drawn to an end. Tankleff is a free man, no one else has been charged with the crime, yet he hasn't been fully exonerated by the state. End of story If you still feel unsettled, you're not the only one. To some, the overturning of his conviction is a just conclusion to the case; others read it as a twist in a bigger mystery. Arie Kruglanski, a professor of...http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2008/07/case_closed_sor.html |