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satellites
Satellites by Jonas Bendikson . Real interesting. A photo-essay-narration thing by a guy who's been travelling around the weird unrecognised and independent states on the southern fringes of the former USSR. Places that fell through the cracks in the world. For those who were at the World Press Photo exhibit earlier in the air, this is the guy who ( Read more... ) -
polls are for shit
but it's still a happy feeling.
Labour 45%, National 36% on party vote. -
i hope i'm wrong.
Q: What's the difference between a society without oil and New Orleans?
A: Flooding. -
billboards
I don't know why, this was the first thing that came into my head.
I'm a National Party Artist
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worldchanging
This is an outright plug for my favourite site on the web, http://worldchanging.com/I was fortunate enough to find them at their inception and have read the entire site, more or less. It is chock full of interesting things about the world, where we're going, and how it can rock ( Read more... ) -
the power of the mind
wow.
even knowing what i know, it's always interesting to experience it again, to feel the shift. and laugh.
what was believed to be true dissolves into dream, forgotten, painless.
this is the way the future can be saved. -
jeepers.
When the Washington Post and New York Times, respectively, start publishing reality based community perspectives like this and this , daring to call the fiasco a fiasco and the lies lies, you have to wonder how long before the ship sinks ( Read more... ) -
unanswered questions
Bloody hell." Initial claims that de Menezes was targeted because he was wearing a bulky coat, refused to stop when challenged and then vaulted the ticket barriers have all turned out to be false. He was wearing a denim jacket, used a standard Oyster electronic card to get into the station and simply walked towards the platform unchallenged ( Read more... ) -
global stability
So what is the greatest threat to global stability? The illusion of a "war on terror"? Or the reality of business as usual?
It would seem the latter, with "2 billion people living in countries in danger of collapse", as claims a study from the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy which identifies states failing and leaving chaos in their wake as the ( Read more... ) -
what you can do about global warming
Since people seem to be asking questions about what they can do about some of the problems of the world...
The Union of Concerned Scientists has some ideas