March 2011
4 posts
Wherein I disclose my sources.
With sooo much going on in the world, it can help to have more eyes on the news, so i’m going to reveal some of my hitherto closely held news gathering sources in no particular order…
Twitter is a rumor generation and persistence machine. It’s utility is only as good as the social network you’ve worked to develop. I rarely post there. my socnet is from 3years ago, and is...
Nuclear Power. even if safe it makes no sense.
This is quick rant, because bravenewclimate.com chose to address their perceived need for continued investments in nuclear power instead of updating us on the current situation (something they’ve been doing a good job of until now)…
i feel compelled to put some brief facts out there they chose to ignore…
1. Peak Uranium. everyone ignores it, yet some reports predict shortages of...
Libya/Middle East Live Blogs
A collection of Live Blogs (in no particular order) Note: some of these change daily, link may be old, but it give you a starting point for searching if i can’t update this list.
Reuters stories about Libya http://af.reuters.com/news/country/?type=libyaNews
The Telegraph live blog http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8358841/Libya-live.html
The Guardian...
Choose Dignity
I’ve been meaning to spend some time articulating the complicated feelings I have with respect to the rapidly unfolding situation in Libya. It has been refreshing to see mass peaceful movements in the middle east as people seek to re-exert some level of self-determination. For too long, too many in the world have suffered from despotic and corrupt leadership. Sadly, many of those rulers...
February 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Need Help near Tripoli...
UPDATE Below…
I am passing this along from a friend who was in the Peace Corps and made close friends in Africa. I am redacting any information that might put them in harms way until we find some trusted organization or individuals that might be able to help them get to safety… please share, especially to contacts you may have with peace organizations operating in the region…...
Stepping off the Train...
[As usual here, this is still a rough draft. it could use a lot of editing, and at a minimum, I will flesh it out with some supporting links at a later date.]
I am not convinced our elected officials truly understand what “Winning the Future,” really entails. They fail to see how badly we are currently losing any prospect that the future will be a hospitable one.
It is widely...
December 2010
1 post
Happy Solstice.
I’m laughing at the density of archeologists/western thought modes regarding ancient earth-based beliefs. The Sun was usually not “worshipped.” indigenous people were grateful to the Great Mystery for the warmth and illumination the Sun brought. They were also grateful for the circle - that magical reflection of nature…. “as above, so below.” All of creation...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
4 posts
“People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion; and they will...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter #8, August 12, 1904
“More and more it seems that the ordering of nature is an art akin to...”
– Alan Watts, The Joyous Cosmology
March 2010
3 posts
“!q #q As for the Republicans, how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy,...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, 1936 [curious if hashtags or, far less likely, !bangtags will translate to status.net]
“For if we imagine this being of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, #8, Borgeby gard, Fladie, Sweden August 12, 1904 [paragraph break added]
This is a test.
Ostatus wonderfully weaves several standards into a cohesive whole that is moving beyond traditional microblogging by allowing you to chose the stream you wish to follow, regardless of where that stream is hosted. You prefer using buzz? No problem, i can follow you, even though i prefer my personal status.net site: exador.status.net.
Have an interesting tumblog? I can subscribe to you. this is a...
January 2010
1 post
The Politics of Unity
I feel fairly bi-partisan today. No, not across the aisle… The Republicans are looking to sell the country to the highest bidder. They need to be ignored like you ignore the mentally ill people Reagan dumped on our streets, spewing crazy to everyone and no-one. No, I’m reaching out to those on the left who turned on their peers near the beginning of this mess we find ourselves in. ...
June 2009
1 post
The strange reality tunnel of conservatives...
A brief attempt at a conversation with a conservative talk-show host on identi.ca goes awry …
charlieprofit It is amazing how forgiving the left was of Clinton and his affair(s), and how he lied about it. A Republican admits affair and gets blasted
exador23 @charlieprofit clinton didn’t blather endlessly about the sanctity of marriage. lying is bad. hypocritical lying is much...
April 2009
1 post
A Roadmap to Useful Microblogging {draft}
Where microblogging could should go in terms of being a useful tool in everyone’s lives…
————————————————- Part 1(a): Progress to Date & Hashtags A lot of people seem to misunderstand the ugly, grammar-killing #hashtag. Healthy software systems co-evolve with user habits. In the early days of...
February 2009
1 post
Stimulus R Us
** - [This thought is ~under construction~ !!! and is a (possibly unnecessary) set-up for a suggestion I’d like to flesh out: a Kiva-style system to encourage citizens to invest in local to national / small to medium-sized ventures by matching individual investments with federal loans - bypass the banks that aren’t lending….]
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January 2009
1 post
25 Websites that are not infected with the 25...
Rules: Something involving 25 things… 2 past the magical 23, but that’s OK, because 5x5 =25 and 5 inherently includes 2 and 3. The peace symbol hand gesture is two digits up, three down. When Richard Nixon said “I am not a crook” while shaking his head like those people in Jacob’s Ladder, the encoded message meant only for erists and zenarchists (Nixon was the first...
