Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Bethnal Green and Roman road
olha pryymak
Bethnal Green and Roman road
2010, oil on panel, 15 x 15 cm, £98 via Etsy
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Run RNC
Run, Sarah, Run
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The Tea Party Nation’s new mailin’
Says for RNC head it wants Palin.
Sarah sure sounds ideal
(Even better than Steele)
If the Dems want a shot at prevailin’.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Today is Human Rights Day.
On this day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its conclusion that, "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."
But today in Oslo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's seat stood empty. He is in a Chinese jail. The Chinese government successfully pressured 15 nations to boycott the reception honoring his work for free speech and elections. The mission of Eleanor Roosevelt and countless others who worked tirelessly to make the Declaration a reality is not yet complete.
Human Rights First
But today in Oslo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's seat stood empty. He is in a Chinese jail. The Chinese government successfully pressured 15 nations to boycott the reception honoring his work for free speech and elections. The mission of Eleanor Roosevelt and countless others who worked tirelessly to make the Declaration a reality is not yet complete.
Human Rights First
Olny srmat ploepe can raed tihs...
No wonder my dyslexia affected my math skills and not my reading comprehension. Thursday, December 09, 2010
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE
A new green file format: WWF.
The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don't need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.
SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE
Amazon’s cowardice and servility ...
Open Letter to Amazon.com
on DECEMBER 3, 2010To Customer Service and Jeff Bezos,
I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.
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Voice: 270-215-4275
Wednesday Poetry
Dawn Dreams
by Rachel Hadas Dreams draw near at dawn and then recede
even if you beckon them.
They loom like demons
you tug by the tail to examine from up close
and then let fly away.
Their colors at once brighter and less bright
than you remembered, they
hover and insinuate all day
at the corner of your eye.
by Rachel Hadas Dreams draw near at dawn and then recede
even if you beckon them.
They loom like demons
you tug by the tail to examine from up close
and then let fly away.
Their colors at once brighter and less bright
than you remembered, they
hover and insinuate all day
at the corner of your eye.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
Look what's happenin' up the street...got to revolution, got to...
In a bid to stay one step ahead of the governments, companies, freelance hackers trying to shut down its operations, WikiLeaks mobilized its vast base of online support Saturday by asking its Twitter followers to create copies of its growing archive of hundreds of classified State Department cables.
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[Link]
I particularly like the part about "radicalized hackers" ... we can anticipate oligarchical control of the Internet any minute now.
Friday, December 03, 2010
And God said ...
... I need something interesting to do this afternoon... I think I will make ...
A tiny chameleon sits on a human thumbnail with room to spare. The minuscule creature is rarely spotted in the wild, and doesn’t need to change colour to help hide from its enemies. British wildlife photographers Matt and Will Burrard-Lucas were lucky to spot the tiny Brookesia during an expedition in Amber Mountain Park, Madagascar.
Picture: burrard-lucas.com / BNPS (via Pictures of the day: 3 December 2010 - Telegraph)
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Great Complexities
Consider the following qualities:
| Confident | Humble |
| Courageous | Prudent |
| Tenacious | Gentle |
| Honest | Compassionate |
| Decisive | Flexible |
| Disciplined | Playful |
| Strong | Vulnerable |
| Deliberate | Spontaneous |
| Discerning | Intuitive |
| Outgoing | Introspective |
Which quality do you value more in each pair?
Is there any doubt that most of us tend to choose up sides between qualities, valuing one in preference to its opposite? Or that most organizations often value the whole constellation of qualities on the left over those on the right?
Many companies now build leadership programs around developing "competencies," a list of core qualities they expect all their leaders to embody. It's one size fits all, and the aim is to help people get up to speed wherever they fall short.
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Thank you Rosa Parks
On this day 55 years ago, a woman named Rosa Parks kick-started the modern civil rights movement when the then-42-year-old refused to leave her seat in the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
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