Some might be wondering why I was so mad last night. Here's a little more info.

I've had my car towed for this once before--in front of my own place! I ended up having to pay almost $700 in storage fees. No, it wasn't parked there for months or even weeks for that matter. After many, many months, I got over that. I now force myself to drive to the store when I would normally bike (yeah, great anti-environment law!).

I know which cars live in the house that complained and they were parked two cars away from where my car was parked. That's pretty darn annoying in itself. But what really bothers me is that I tend to be in lab from 8am until about 8pm so when I force myself to drive to the store it's around 9pm. When I get back tfrom the store, my previous spot is usually still available. That's what happened this time. The people left a note that couldn't have been there for more than 24 hours. I know, because I used my car on Tuesday evening and saw no such note. They then called the police to complain despite my car not being there for 72 hours consecutively. Even by the standard of the law, I should not have received a warning as my car was definitely moved less than 48 hours prior to the warning. That's infuriating. Apparently, I now have to v-log every time I drive my car.

What aggrevates about this law, is that I can't park my care anywhere near these people's house and go on a weeklong vacation or even a long weekend trip. It doesn't matter that I live on that street. I could understand if the car was there for a month, but we are talking days. (I'll post a image of my "Tow Warning" once I scan it)

The Web has been abuzz with Google's new Street View function which pairs up with its Google Maps feature to show you what it is like to be on a street whose address you enter. So, you can look up your favorite bakery in SF, find the street, zoom in from satellite above and now, look right at its awning and that succulent chocolate cake in the window.

What I have just described is the innocuous use of this feature.

People have instead been looking for the craziest, funniest, strangest images they could find which were catalogued by the Google team, which covered miles and miles of streets around New York, San Francisco and other big cities.

Some claim to have found E.T.

But perhaps most unnerving to Stanford students are the images of our own campus. The Wired Magazine blog sought out submissions for the "best inadvertent" shots people could find.

This photo looks like it was taken right outside of Twain, between Stern and Wilbur.

Just by "walking" down Escondido Road you can find this photo of two girls sunbathing in front of Manzanita.

While I think the technology is cool (they use an 11-lens camera, the Dodeca 2360), I can see why privacy wonks are worried. If I were one of those girls, I probably wouldn't be too happy that anyone with an internet connection could see me in my bathing suit when all I wanted to do was get some sun on a lazy afternoon. And what recourse do they have? Call up Google and kindly ask that a new picture of the lawn in front of Kimball be taken?

I’m listening to “Remember the Name” right now. You know the song if you’ve seen a number of sports events—it’s become that “pump up” song (“This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and 100% reason to Remember the Name). This was a highly serendipitous song to come up on my shuffle, because the sports topic, as far as I’m concerned, is LeBron James v. The Detroit Pistons, Game Six.

Suffice it to say that LeBron and LeBron only, through fortune (Dwyane Wade’s injury, awful coaching opponents, the fortunate second seed, etc.) and skill (He is LeBron, after all) is on the cusp of bursting into the Finals for the privilege of being dismantled by the Spurs.

First, New York's profile of the graduating West Point class. You know, a few weeks ago, I remember an ROTC guy and someone else discussing the Army. I forget the specific topic about that, but the other guy kept on referencing his video game knowledge. Which was kind of a funny, tragic and absurd moment all at once: the main way the vast majority of Stanford students know of the military is via a) video games and b) movies and TV. This has two effects: one, we have no idea about the military's problems and struggles; and two, we tend to idealize the military. These two things are probably related and highly unfortunate. Well, I won't claim that this article will solve all our problems, it's certainly very good.

I hadn't seen Will Cheng play the piano since we lived together in East Flo freshman year. He was fantastic then and since, he's won just about every award Stanford gives to musically-inclined individuals. Yesterday evening, in "Musical Imaginations," Will's performance was simply breathtaking -- one of the best I've seen. I had never heard any of the pieces he performed, but he was instantly engaging and passionate... and incredibly meditative. At times, the music incorporated elements of jazz, which I wasn't always sure were in the written music. Perhaps a little improvisation? Possibly.

Check out his performance of Isaac Albeniz's "Evocation" from Iberia (I apologize greatly for the hissing sound... but I think the video still captures much of his subtlety if you can put up with the quality):

Full program:
English Suite No. 4 in F (1720 or prior) - Bach
Evocation (1906) - Isaac Albeniz
Piano Sonata in D, Op. 10 No. 3 (1798) - Beethoven
Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 No. 3 (1844) - Chopin

I particularly loved the Chopin piece, so I found the movements on imeem for anyone who wants to hear them: Movements 1, 2, 3, 4.

The Stanford senior class of 2007 came together for yet another posh event specifically designed to make us associate positive feelings with writing checks to the Stanford Fund (suggested donation: $20.07). I'm okay with being exploited... especially if it involves amazing views of a world-class stadium and the Stanford campus from posh sky boxes... and wine. But they totally underestimated the number of seniors that would show up, and so they were out of food after an hour -- for a two-hour event. Many seniors are now associating bad feelings with writing checks to the Stanford Fund.

But oh well. I promise to donate a bijillion dollars once I'm a bajillionaire either way.

Check out some fun photos (click the pic to go to our Flickr account):

The Washington Post has the fix on the debates last night. I agree with them that Clinton is emerging from these debates as the most impressive among the field. She's also the clear leader in the latest polls on the Democratic side, with 42% compared to Obama's 27% and Edwards' 11%.

But get this, folks: When you add non-candidate Gore into the mix, he places third with 17%, and takes a 7-point chunk out of Hillary. Obama falls to 23% and Edwards to a paltry 8%. Furthermore, Al Gore wins on intensity. Sixty percent of his supporters do so "strongly," compared to 53% for Hillary and a continually-softening 43% for Obama. Crazy.

Here he is on the Daily show, in case you missed it (from two Thursdays ago):

Part 2 here.

Normally, we value professionalism. But seeing that this was our farewell broadcast and that we needed an escape from painful papers and problem sets, we threw our journalistic values to the wind.

In the spirit of the Daily Show, the Colbert Report (We steal one of Colbert's classic intros), and the Onion, we proudly present the KZSU 90.1 FM 6-4-07 broadcast of the Stanford Current.

You can listen to the entire broadcast here.

Enjoy the show and good luck on finals!

Please watch this remarkable audio/video presentation of New York Times reporter Michael Kamber. He went out with his division before sunrise to try and document their search for missing soldiers, and the results are absolutely devastating.

Yeah, this may be a shameless promotion. But we can all agree that the state of Hip Hop is far from its zenith with cookie-cutter rappers and superficial lyrics. We need bring the music back! And that's what Non Human Intelligence (NHI) wants to do. As Imani of The Pharcyde put it, "NHI is a breath of fresh air, and NHI is exactly what Hip hop is missing."

Oh, and one of the rappers is my uncle (Abyss).

So I hope you take a listen and enjoy real, organic Hip Hop.

Dick Cheney’s former aide, “Scooter” Libby has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice and perjury. Since the Libby trial began was so long ago, I’ve had a couple of my friends ask me what it was all about- so here’s a bit of a review:

Back in 2002, the CIA wanted to check out the facts regarding a memo that they had- this memo documented that Niger had sold uranium yellowcake to Iraq in the late 1990s- this was part of the proof that Iraq had a WMD. The CIA asked Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV to travel to Niger and verify this information. Once he got to Niger, it seemed clear that this particular memo had been forged- the people who signed it were no longer in office, the Niger government formally denied it, and it would have been very difficult to get the uranium out of the country because of the IAEA oversight.

Then, later in 2002, Britain started citing the Nigerian yellowcake as justification for the war in Iraq, and in early 2003, the Bush Administration also started using this as justification. After Ambassador Wilson realized that the Bush Administration was disregarding his findings in Niger, he started voicing his dissent and the facts, as he knew them. Finally, he wrote an op-ed to the New York Times on July 6 2003. This piece clearly explains his findings in Niger and the inaccuracy of this connection between Niger and Iraq.

The Stanford Spotlight has posted a cute video of the new ASSU Executives on their YouTube channel:

...these Vanity Fair covers by Annie Leibovitz to be extremely cool.

Yet another fascinating presentation from TED

Watch and discuss.

A friend forwarded this message to me from the French House chat list and I thought it was funny. As part of their final project in a Science, Technology and Gender class, one group surveyed student perception of certain majors at Stanford.

Some of the descriptions aren't too interesting, but a couple of them are downright hilarious, especially because these are quotations from students themselves.

Click to find your major and what people think of it!

Every summer Technology Education Cross-Cultures (TECC) launches summer institutes all over China -- Each institute places teams of US and Chinese college students in rural areas to teach english and technology. TECC was started a couple years ago by Stanford Students in an effort to close the widening economic divide between rural communities and urban cities in China. Here's a clip from the Shaanxi institute last year.

Well, it's too bad they don't have a Monday (June 18th) shuttle for us graduating seniors, but at least for everyone else, if the times work for you, the tickets are CHEAP!

Shuttles are running every hour to SFO:
Wednesday, June 13th, from 12PM to 6PM
Thursday, June 14th, from 5AM to 6PM, and
Friday, June 15th, from 5AM to 12PM

...and every two hours to San Jose:
Wednesday, June 13th from 12PM to 6PM
Thursday, June 14th from 5AM to 5PM, and
Friday, June 15th from 5AM to 11AM

The shuttles will stop at Marguerite stops from West campus housing to East campus housing. The full schedule and $5 tickets can be found at egroups.stanford.edu. Have a safe trip home!

So you are at Green Library, studying for the finals, minding your own business. And suddenly from no where the entire stanford band appears and starts playing in full flow.

I’m in the emergency waiting room of Stanford Hospital. It’s my third trip since I began my Stanford career, four years ago. Three trips in four years, and I’ve never been the patient—I’m just the person dumb enough to drive the sickos here. Always a bridesmaid; never a bride.

So a seventeen-year-old girl just puked ten feet in front of me. Literally, ten feet. Maybe even seven.

For this, I could have stayed at Suites. Guys peeing off the balcony outside my room is gross but, hands down, barf is grosser. I think the drunken nausea of The Barfer (who just got carried away after falling out of her wheelchair) is compounded by the fact that The Barfer is also preggers. For the record, I’m neither drunk nor pregnant—that’s right, Mom and Dad—four years at Stanford and I’m currently sober and not knocked up—I did it! I beat the odds!

I want to look at it—the barf, that is. I really do. I have to see if it’s not that bad or if maybe it was just dry heaving and there was, indeed, no barf. Otherwise I’ll be stuck here staring at the wall forever. I’m going to look.

Everyone, I presume, is familiar with Facebook's new "apps."

For example, Graffiti, written by two Stanford undergrads, Joachim and Alex, ingeniously allows you to write on your friends' wall more creatively (i.e. without text).

While many apps seem to have been written by individuals (no official numbers from Facebook), a number are also from companies. One of my favorites, for pure amusement factor, is the Red Bull Roshambull (Roshambo, or Rocks-Paper-Scissors).

It's amazing. I get distracted from my work (always a plus), and they get their name thrown around and traffic on their site.

I mean, look at the Alexa graph of the otherwise unsavory url www.redbullroshambull.com (which redirects to the Facebook app's about page):

Regardless of their exponentially-growing curve, challenge me and let's see who's got what it takes!

Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and a significant figure in 20th century philosophy, died yesterday. Disenchanted with the trends of modern philosophy, Rorty shifted in his career from the sort of traditional analytical philosophy taught in philosophy departments to continental philosophy. Rorty received numerous awards, and, according to The Harvard Crimson, was supposed to receive an honorary degree from Harvard last week. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an entry outlining his thought.

I was lucky enough hear him give a very interesting talk at the Symbolic Systems Forum two years ago, where he attacked much of the current analytical research program in philosophy of mind. A video of the talk is available on the Symbolic Systems website, as is an article from the Stanford News Service about the talk.

UPDATE, 6.10.07: Stanford News Service now has an article on his death.

Arrington started TechCrunch in 2005 to profile the latest and greatest in internet technology and startup companies.

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Nir and Owen talked to Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, when he visited the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Today his blog is the place on the web where you’re you’ll likely get the early news on major company shakeups, product announcements, and emerging ideas.

Since 2005 the TechCrunch network of content sites has expanded dramatically. Arrington’s empire covers 9 different sites, including a podcast called TalkCrunch, a product review site titled CrunchGear as well as several foreign sites.

Arrington was selected as one of the 50 most important people on the web by PC magazine. TechCrunch recently held it’s annual party “TechCrunch 7”, but the TechCrunch 20 is still open for fans. The conference, which is discussed during the podcast will take place during September 17-18 in San Francisco.

- Owen Tripp and Nir Eyal

Last week was not what I would call a good week. On Saturday morning (6/2), my brother-in-law had a heart attack. I was in a state of shock for most of the day. (The same sister lost her former husband from a similar, unexpected heart attack a few years ago.) While I was worring about that, I found out that a friend had written a draft of a suicide letter and had to have them put in a hospital. I spent six or seven hours in the Emergency room. I also found out that a friend's grandparents passed away. A different friend lost a childhood friend.

While my personal life was on the brink of chaos, my academic life wasn't exactly, shall we say, peachy. I found out that all the NMR instruments in the Bay Area which I need to run a last set of experiments were out of commission--all of them! The cells I needed for other experiments last week died so nothing I needed to work was working. Needless to say, I wasn't in the most pleasant of moods--which rarely happens to me. A perfect time to make that five hour "pissed off" MP3 playlist.

After a rather hellish week, things are looking up. I had a wonderful Friday evening at Nola's (wink wink), despite not being in a typical "going out" mood. I was able to catch my bearings on Saturday and let everything sink in. My brother-in-law is now out of the hospital and doing great. My friend, who has been suffering with depression for years, is finally getting the appropriate treatment. (Depression is a generally treatable sickness and nothing to be ashamed of. Get help if you need it!) My cells for this week are still alive. I may be able to get a trip out of town to do some NMR experiments (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, btw). I even got to finish the book for bookgroup Monday night and catch up on my New Yorker and New York Review of Books subscriptions that have piled up on me over the last month or so. I was able to get to the gym for the first time in weeks today. All in all, a much better weekend than last.

I was able to make it through my horrible week with great friends and family, but sometimes that's not enough. If you are having a hard time dealing with life for whatever reason, seek professional health. Stanford is making a serious effort to deal with mental health problems and I've already seen the benefits of professional help with my friend. There is nothing wrong with needing a little help from someone who knows what they are doing.

Here's to better days!

My friend sent me this article today, Studies say death penalty deters crime - Yahoo! News, and I found it pretty interesting. He knows I'm against the death penalty mainly because I believe that it does not deter crime.

The article might change my views. Apparently there have been several studies in the past 6 years that are all suggesting that for in each state, an execution deters between 3-18 homicides. This is accounting for other factors like unemployment data, income per capita and others. I haven't looked at the studies myself but they sound pretty good - but have attracted a lot of controversy.

So say it's true - that more executions could prevent more innocent people from dying. Does that necessarily make the death penalty right? Perhaps.

Some things are intrinsically wrong, no matter what the consequences are. For example - we can't force people to be organ donors even if it means many more people would be able to stay alive.

I think what it boils down to is your opinion on the purpose of sentences for crimes:
1) to prevent other people from doing it
2) to stop those who commit crimes from committing more crimes
3) or to exact punishment on people who commit crimes - to make them "pay".
Personally I'm with number 2. What's your take on sentences? On the death penalty?

Good luck with finals everyone! Sign up to blog for the summer!

Several years ago a friend and myself trekked down to Rose International Market (1060 Castro St, Mountain View, CA – if you’re coming from Stanford you take a right on Castro Street [it’s not in the downtown area]) where we had a great inexpensive kabob wrap.

This last Sunday the hubby and I repeated the trek and can definitely recommend it to anyone looking for good cheap eats. I haven't been a big fan of Persian restauarants - the dishes I've tried has either been overflavored with one note (when I tried pomegranate chicken at one restaurant) or bland (some other place I went but can't remember), but I like kabobs and the rice dishes they offer at this place.

Rose Market is a combo grocery store and kabob grill that has outdoor seating (with plenty of umbrellas for shade). The trick is knowing how to order – All items are pretty much ordered separately. You first order items like hummos, yogurt sauce, and rice from the small deli inside (plus pick up knives and forks). Place your kabob order at the checkout counter, get an order number, and then pick up your kabob order from the grill outside in the back (bring a dollar to tip the grill guys).

We picked up some drinks (various prices, I had coconut water). Then got yogurt sauce (2.99/lb) and Zereshk Polo (steamed white basmati rice with barberries and saffron, $2.99 for a box) at the deli. We then ordered a Chicken (3.99) and Barg (top sirloin marinated in saffron and other spice, 4.99) kabob with 2 orders of grilled tomatoes (0.99 each). All the meat is halal (the store displays a certificate).

The kabobs come on a tray placed on top of a piece of lavash (large thin piece of flat bread) with whatever veggies you order and a mix of cilantro, basil, and parsley (plus onion if you want it). Sumac is available at the table and we basically ladled rice and yogurt sauce onto the lavash , sprinkeled everything with sumac and had a great meal. Combining a small piece of lavash with rice, yogurt, basil, and parsley made for a delicious bite. We liked the food so much we picked up some more Zereshk Polo and a Koubideh kabob (ground beef and lamb mixed with onion and spiced, sprinkled with sumac, 1.99) for dinner.

Here:

"To listen to the raves, Fred's Coffee Shop serves a mean weekend breakfast. The omelets at this little joint just a skip across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco are said to be "fluffy beyond belief," the bacon "thicker" and "tastier" than at anyplace else, and the French toast -- oh, the French toast, cooked up soft and then deep-fried and slathered in sugar -- will help you find Jesus. Fred's, according to reviews posted on the popular local-ratings site Yelp, makes the best breakfast in Sausalito. Thirty-eight reviewers give it an average score of 4.5 stars -- a number that really stuck in my craw as I gulped down limp slabs of two-star French toast, sipped at one-star coffee, and took in the ordinary two-star ambience."

This post, by Salon.com's Farhad Manjoo, is a really interesting rumination on user reviews on Amazon.com, etc. I've long since taken user reviews with a grain of salt after the John Lott incident

That being said, I think user reviews and blogs really encompass the true value of the internet. Obviously Google's aggregation of information is tremendously useful, but what user reviews and blogs do is synthesize and analyze said information. Our problem, these days, is not how much information we have, but what we do with it.

I first became involved with the Stanford Democrats back in 2003. There was a lot of frustration with the direction our country was headed and a growing desire for change, particularly if you weren't a Republican. My social circle at the time--mostly scientists--was not necessarily the most politically active and the Stanford Dems was a great outlet to go from talk to action. There was a lot of excitement and the Stanford Dems was a great group to be a part of. I never fail to mention that, in December of that year, the current Dems president (Dylan Mefford) was able to get John Kerry to campus which catapulted Kerry to the Democratic nomination.

Starting in 2004, I became increasingly involved with the group coordinating with different campaigns (Kerry for President, Boxer for Senate, Eshoo for Congress, Ira Ruskin for Assembly, ... ). I remember starting the Students for Kerry group that, with a lot of work by Marie Jonas, ended up taking about 150 students to Nevada to canvass. I also remember Jen Haskell and I being the first people in the state to canvass for Ira Ruskin's relatively poor Assembly campaign (his opponent was a billionaire). There was that botched trip to SF to help Barbara Boxer that few probably remember. So many memories.

Naming everyone I enjoyed working with would take too long. There are several former Stanford Dems presidents (Marie, Nell, Bobby) graduating this year and it has been great getting to help and or pester each of them. Many of the current and past board memebers (including blog founder, Galen) also contributed to a great time and a real learning experience. There are other people from different years, but c/o '07 started with the Stanford Dems at the same time I did back in '03-'04 and most of us had a great political journey together. I wish you all the best of luck and hope you say hi from time to time without asking for a political contribution :o).

I haven't been out in the world for a few weeks due to finals and papers and such. But I just now saw that last week, Newsweek declared the Bush Administration officially dead:

Read Fareed Zakaria's fantastic piece on how we can restore America's place in the world. Really, if you haven't read it, go click on the link and read it. It'll make you sad, but also hopefully it will make you feel like we can do better.

...and then tune in to the next Democratic debate to help determine who will get to clean up Bush's mess. This one's unique because it is co-sponsored by YouTube and CNN, meaning that all of the questions asked will come from YouTube user video submissions. The New York Times has the latest on why this could be huge. I would say it might be entertaining, but I can't picture CNN letting anything truly unpredictable happen. We shall see.

...behind Tresidder, just outside the Treehouse. On a picnic table. Wearing his trademark black mock-turtleneck and jeans. The first thing I thought when I saw him: "Wow, he's got to be burning up in that outfit." What is it, 89 degrees outside? (That is, indeed, what my Dashboard widget says.)

Actually, my first thought when I saw him was, "Oh my God!! It's the iWitch!!"

My second thought was, "Damn, I wish he was my commencement speaker. Wouldn't that just have been the perfect counterpoint to Bill Gates' incredible commencement speech at Harvard?" It's better than that Dana Giulio person or whoever is speaking this year." Ah, well. I did get a chance to watch Jobs' commencement speech at the ceremony here in 2005... so I guess I can claim him as my own.

From GoStanford.com:

Cleveland, Ohio - Stanford has continued its record win streak in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup competition by securing its 13th consecutive award at the Division I level. The honor is presented annually by NACDA and the United States Sports Academy to the program that wins the nation's only all-sports competition in intercollegiate athletics in the country.

National championships in women's cross country and men's golf led Stanford to the honor. Stanford also had runner-up finishes in men's swimming and diving, women's volleyball and women's water polo. A total of 15 Stanford teams contributed Top 10 national finishes, while Stanford scored in 18 of 20 sports allowed in the standings.

Stanford has scored 1345.50 points through June 12 with the final point totals for all schools scheduled and final standings to be released June 28 following the conclusion of the 2007 NCAA Division I College Baseball World Series. The Cardinal currently has a commanding 296.50 point lead over second place UCLA (1049.00).

Go Stanford!

He may have been called "the John Ashcroft of poetry" by Black Sparrow Press founder John Martin, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti did say he was an 'excellent choice' for the "National Endowment for the Arts of Complacency."

But he's not all bad. In fact, he sounds like a very interesting person, aside from his politics, so if you still haven't Googled him, I encourage you to do so. Check out this SF Chronicle article that was published on him when he was appointed by Bush to head the NEA (appropriately entitled, "Who is Dana Gioia?"). It made me feel a lot better about the choice for Commencement Speaker. There's also his semi-famous essay, "Can Poetry Matter?" published in the Atlantic Monthly, and some of his poetry. I thought this one was nice:

Rough Country

Give me a landscape made of obstacles,
of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,
where the low-running streams are quick to flood
the grassy fields and bottomlands.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A place
no engineers can master–where the roads
must twist like tendrils up the mountainside
on narrow cliffs where boulders block the way.
Where tall black trunks of lightning-scalded pine
push through the tangled woods to make a roost
for hawks and swarming crows.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And sharp inclines
where twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush,
scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly
to find an unexpected waterfall,
not half a mile from the nearest road,
a spot so hard to reach that no one comes–
a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies
and nesting jays, a sign that there is still
one piece of property that won't be owned.

Just wanted to let everyone know that one of our very own bloggers, Marie Jo, will be webcasting live streaming video from the Commencement ceremony RIGHT HERE. So, if you want to catch it as it happens -- from the Wacky Walk to Dana Giulio or whoever he is -- come visit us (bright and early) on Sunday at 9:00AM and perhaps during other portions of Commencement Weekend -- at blog.stanford.edu.

From MJ:

"uStream is interactive so your parents/friends can call 310-433-0523 to tell me to find you, and you will be streamed live! Tell all your friends. Go Stanford '07!"

Hello! I'm in between ceremonies and just wanted to stop by and say how impressed I was with the ceremony, with Wacky Walk, and with Dana Gioia's call to the renewal of arts and intellectualism in our culture.

Congratulations everyone!!

A brief video of wacky walk:

The Stanford Report also has a fun Wacky Walk video.

For part I click here

Inspired by my friend D who intends to stop using shampoo as soon as she runs out, no Impact Man, and a variety of other sites I am attempting to go shampoo-less and to wash my hair with a baking soda solution and vinegar rinse. Today was day 1, I’ll let you know what happens after week II. If I make it that far

However, I do have reviews of using vinegar and baking soda to clean the oven, help with the dishes, and clean the toilet.

Tom Arnold is the Chief Environmental Officer of Terrapass, an environmental company that provides carbon offsetting solutions for individuals.