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New blog
I started a new blog: No measure of health. The title comes from a Krishnamurti quote that gets at why I wanted to restart blogging:
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I'm not actually sure if I'm going to drop Livejournal altogether, or occasionally post more personal things here. I wanted to start the ( Read more... ) -
Blogging elsewhere
I don't usually do the "look what I wrote elsewhere" thing on this blog, but today I wrote something that's much more personal than usual for the work blog, and it seems to have struck a chord with people:
What gets you fired up?On a more personal note than I could write for the work blog: I'm having a rough week at work, and it really helped to ( Read more... ) -
How to measure race
More by luck than judgement, I have become Mr. Survey at Sustainable Seattle, which I'm actually rather pleased about. We have this happiness survey that we're trying to get everybody to take (fairly successfully - we had more than 6,000 responses the last time I checked), and I am the main person doing both tech support for the online survey ( Read more... ) -
That "bees & cellphones" study
A report came out recently claiming that cellphones have been conclusively proven to be the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (the mass failure of beehives that's a serious threat to agriculture around the world). I've seen so many "OMG mobile phones give you cancer" scare stories that turned out to be based on a hopelessly flawed study and/or ( Read more... ) -
Intermediate [wealth] technology
Once upon a time, I had the great privilege of spending a couple of months in central/Eastern Europe as a tourist. I learned many interesting things along the way, the biggest of which was just how completely World War 2, the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact and the Cold War had shaped the destiny of many millions of people, but right now I feel like ( Read more... ) -
Fuck you Sarah Palin
It's bad enough that throughout last year you blatantly-gleefully even-incited violence against your political opponents. It's bad enough that you refuse to express the slightest contrition now that someone has done what you asked them to. But now you accuse people who call out your inflammatory rhetoric of blood libel? Fuck you ( Read more... )
