December 2010
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Facebook Rolling Out New Design of News Feed... →
I’ve got it on my profile. Looks like an convenient way to use lists again.
Fascinating: A Physicist Solves the City →
Fascinating: A Physicist Solves the City http://nyti.ms/hoJ7sr
10 Alternatives To Delicious.com Bookmarking →
10 Alternatives To #delicious http://selnd.com/f8L1A0
cc: @worldofhiglet @martin_kelley @tbriscoe @feliciaday / Faves? Alternatives? Tags: delicious
"Paul Revere's Ride" turns 150--and isn't about... →
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” Before Longfellow published those lines, Revere was never known for his ride, and Longfellow got almost every detail of what happened in 1775 wrong. But Longfellow didn’t care: he was writing as much about the coming war as about the one that had come before. “Paul Revere’s Ride” is less a poem about the Revolutionary...
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Solstice Lunar Eclipse this Tuesday early a.m. →
For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy shadow. Why red?
A quick trip to the Moon provides the answer: Imagine yourself standing on a dusty lunar plain looking up at the sky. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside down, completely hiding the sun behind it. The eclipse is underway. You might expect...
Our Piggy Sack, an "Asian styled" baby carrier... →
Our new baby carrier sling came today. We have a large collection of slings from our previous two babies but this looks neat. Julie saw someone wearing one and we found the website. It’s nice…
How Green Is Your Real (or Fake) Christmas Tree? →
From the NYTimes:
In the most definitive study of the perennial real vs. fake question, an environmental consulting firm in Montreal found that an artificial tree would have to be reused for more than 20 years to be greener than buying a fresh-cut tree annually. The calculations included greenhouse gas emissions, use of resources and human health impacts.
For us, buying real also has the...
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Catherine Lockwood, Brentwood/Los Angeles... →
Recent site launch: CatherineLockwoodMFT.com. The write-up is over on MartinKelley.com.
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Heckman & Buckley: Types of dysfunctional... →
From Friends Journal: “Over the years, Quaker scholars… have neglected to consider the many interesting dysfunctional forms that masquerade as clearness committees. As a start at filling this…
Lifehacker: Six Days Working Entirely from Chrome... →
Do some people like to tweak everything as distraction? :)
Sure, the web is there, and it’s basically a monstrous coliseum of distractions. But when you’re forced to face the web head-on, without the crutch of pretending you’re optimizing your system somehow, you tend to acknowledge what it is, then move on.
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“Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual...”
– Naomi Wolf: J’Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide. She calls the Julian Assange case “a deep, even nauseating insult [to] survivors of rape and sexual assault worldwide.”
“We imagined ourselves as a venture-capital-backed start-up in Silicon Valley...”
– Justin B Smith, The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web
Curbing Candidacy in Drift to One-Party Rule -... →
NYTimes profile of a brave candidate challenging the one-party system that Russia’s become:
Up against this colossus went Ms. Safronova, 53, a former Kremlin supporter who grew increasingly frustrated with the country’s political stagnation and decided to do something about it this year. She mounted her campaign for regional assembly, and worked to transform A Just Russia in Novosibirsk,...
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Timothy T on the "Quaker Card" in activism and... →
think it’s fine and wonderful to organize and engage in political activism but I am not sure, now, why it’s important to play the Quaker Card in doing so. How different is this than people saying…
Danny Coleman: Living from the Inside-Out →
So much of the way that Christianity is practiced in our culture strikes me as seeking growth and maturity from the outside-in. If we attend that seminar or conference; if we acquire more…
Steven Davison starts a wiki on Friends and... →
So this is an invitation to an experiment. I hope that some of my readers, especially those with knowledge of our history, will be interested in joining me in fleshing out our economic history. By…
Micah Bales: The Church Is Not Facebook →
I would like to suggest that there is another way in which we can walk together as the Church, the same one that Jesus followed: The way of humility and self-sacrificing love, valuing the wholeness…
Linda Wilk: the importance of participation in... →
Business is conducted in the manner of worship to allow all present to listen corporately for the voice of God as it is present. The more of the body of the Meeting who are present, the more likely…
Will T on Quaker listening →
The key to the spiritual life is to listen to the voice of God, the Divine, the Spirit, the Guide, whatever you call that still small voice that nudges you towards God. An important part of the…
Li Changchun →
Li Chanchun is the Chinese politburo member and chief propagandist who tried to take down Google after he Googled himself. Apparently he doesn’t want to have critical stuff posted about him online. Too bad. Please repost.
The May 18, 2009, cable, titled “Google China Paying Price for Resisting Censorship,” quoted a well-placed source as saying that Li Changchun, a member of China’s top...
Amazon vs Wikileaks: "You discover that,... →
Columbia Journalism Review: “Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us”:
What’s really hard about this is that we perceive the web to be a public space, a place where you should be able to go and set up your soapbox and say whatever you want to say to the world. The truth is, the web is almost entirely privately held. So what happens here is that we have a normative...
