December 2010
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“A third of Cuba’s 75,000 doctors, along with 10,000 other health workers,...”
– Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent
Dec 29th
“… all possible stories existed, and all existed independently of our...”
– The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie | Orion Magazine  -read or listen to this lovely, insightful tale. Do you remember the time Peavine removed the rabbit stew recipe from the cookbook by eating the page?
Dec 29th
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate... →
In the leaked cable, Stapleton writes, quote, “Europe is moving backwards not forwards on this issue with France playing a leading role, along with Austria, Italy and even the [European] Commission…Moving to retaliation will make clear that the current path has real costs to EU interests and could help strengthen European pro-biotech voice.”
Dec 28th
A Threat to America is a Threat to Bank of America... →
A lovely little piece of speculative fiction that I missed earlier.
Dec 28th
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20 Vegetarian Recipes from The Kitchn Best of 2010... →
From The Kitchn at Apartment Therapy - get cookin’. I give a thumbs up to the Vegetarian Black Bean Chili. (I made a mild ancho chile version)
Dec 28th
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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the...”
– Cesar Chavez via nots0rdinarygirl and ayse
Dec 28th
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Vegan Bourbon Pecan Cake -Lily's Recipe →
This cake is really good. Really, don’t get scared off by the vegan stuff. There is alchemy in the bourbon/pecan mix. It is delightful with coffee and glorious with a glass of mulled wine!
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics... →
Approximately 3.3 million kilograms of antibacterial drugs were sold in the US in year 2009 … that’s a little over 7 million pounds.
Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
AUSTIN KLEON : TUMBLR →
I was out of town and nearly offline for two months. When I returned my reading of all the back posts from Austin Kleon on tumblr was like going to a giant party … Oh, and James Brown was there. Just noticed his blog as well. And, I ordered Newspaper Blackout in paperback. Yep, on Christmas Day in the morning! Thanks Austin Kleon.
Dec 25th
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“If we understand that no artist—no maker—can work except by reworking the works...”
– — Wendell Berry  AUSTIN KLEON and ayse
Dec 25th
The science of cities, or superlinear scaling -... →
The researchers have shown, in fact, that with each doubling of city population, each inhabitant is, on average, 15 percent wealthier, 15 percent more productive, 15 percent more innovative, and 15 percent more likely to be victimized by violent crime regardless of the city’s geography or the decade in which you pull the data.
Dec 24th
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Evan Dahm Guest Comic at Dresden Codak →
“There is a point in everyone’s life when you have no choice but to notice the life you could be living, versus the life you’ve settled for.”  - Shawn Phillips Great little one page comic about choices.
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
Resurfaced - but does it float →
Click the More … for an explosion of art.
Dec 23rd
What is Julian Assange Up To? 3quarksdaily →
Aaron Bady … paddling against a vomit-tide of epithets and empty speculations that threatened to bury Assange under a flood of banalities, Bady proposed and executed a fairly shocking procedure: he sat down and read ten pages of what Assange had actually written about the motivations and strategy behind Wikileaks.
Dec 23rd
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A Garden in Shigar is a simple and lovely film about intention and creation … and design … oh and education. Worth your time. (Film by Mahera Omar) via post  3QuarksDaily.
Dec 23rd
Snipbits →
Good grief, I forgot I had this blog! It is full of wonderful stuff if I do say so myself. Not many pictures … the beauty is in the shared  wisdom of others. And, for the new year, a wish … Inventio Fortunata. It really doesn’t need translation.
Dec 22nd
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“Assange is no more a “journalist” than he is a crypto mathematician. He’s a...”
– Bruce Sterling gives is take on Wikileaks at The Blast Shack via @robinsloan
Dec 22nd
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“In short, we have expended enormous energy on searching for disease genes, but...”
– A Decade of Genomics - Technology Review
Dec 22nd
Winter - Op-Art - NYTimes.com →
I like the grimness … fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Dec 21st
Dec 20th
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“A group of Danish academics say we are passing through the other side of what...”
– Who says our way is the right way? « BuzzMachine
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“To the member, society is his own community; the members of other communities...”
– Perspectives - Raymond Williams: Individuals and Societies (excerpt), from The Long Revolution, 1961 via TOM CLARK Raymond Williams: Individuals and Societies
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Melted Snowman Cookies | Apartment Therapy... →
Dec 19th
Truth Telling and the End of Democracy |... →
What does Wikileaks do? Create or expand awareness with information. This article identifies information that is available but shrouded in the noise of Cablegate. The vast majority of the information Wikileaks shared with the world, however, was misclassified as secret. … Many of these documents should have been releasable into the public domain in compliance with the federal Freedom of...
Dec 19th
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“Power organizes silence around issues that should not be known by citizens. And...”
– Democracies and Media Systems: Action versus Distraction | Project Censored An interesting discussion of “tensions created by corporate media systems within modern democracies”.
Dec 19th
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“…the propaganda of domination through the public opinion has always...”
– Democracies and Media Systems: Action versus Distraction | Project Censored
Dec 19th
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“…if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal...”
– ~ michel foucault (via thomasopburn) “In Italy today, politicians have become the lead architects of a low-cost human-warehousing system designed to contain the minority Roma, or Gypsy, community.” -The Design Observer Group
Dec 18th
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World Population Growth Infographic →
How humans run the earth.
Dec 18th
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Collaborative Consumption  presentation by Rachel Botsman at The Feast Conference. This conference “gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change”. An inspiring vision of the future that is present now. Thanks - Katherine13@twitter
Dec 18th
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“Is it good for the world to worship a deity that takes sides in wars and human...”
– Hitchens’ opening remarks in the debate with Blair. He criticized religion for blocking peace in the Middle East, perpetuating poverty by subjugating women as inferior and causing numerous conflicts including the genocide in Rwanda — a country he says “is the most Christian country in the world, and...
Dec 16th
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“I suppose I’m hungry for curated educational materials online.”
– Frank Chimero - The Two Best Things on the Web 2010
Dec 14th
Twelve Tales for Christmas | Books |... →
In this week’s Guardian Review we launch a special series of podcasts running each day until Christmas in which a collection of our greatest writers read and discuss their favourite short stories. We begin tomorrow with Philip Pullman reading Chekhov’s The Beauties. This will have to do since there is no reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight scheduled.
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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How to Think About WikiLeaks - Alexis Madrigal -... →
Dec 10th