[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- 51 Ways to Spark a Commons Revolution
- [YES! Magazine - Jay Walljasper]
1. Challenge the myth that all problems have private, individual solutions.
2. Notice how many of life’s pleasures exist outside the marketplace—gardening, fishing, conversing, playing music, playing ball, making love, watching sunsets, and much more…
10. Put on a potluck. Throw a block party. Form a community choir, slow-food club, Friday night poker game, May Day festival, or any other excuse for socializing…
32. Protest private profit from products created with research paid for by taxpayers. Demand that publicly-funded research data be available to everyone on the Internet.
- What If Solar Were Subsidized Like Oil?
- [GOOD - Ben Jervey]
Finally, a useful graphic about fossil fuel versus solar subsidies.
- Gay GOP Group Mocks Democratics As ‘Housewives’
- GOProud, a gay conservative group, is out with a new ad mocking key Democrats in Washington as tragically flawed people, like the women of Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C."
"If you thought the housewives were dysfunctional, wait until you meet the real Democrats of Washington D.C." the ad's narrator reads, showing pictures of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
- No, Our Excess Unemployment Today Is Not Structural
- [Grasping Reality with Both Hands - Brad DeLong]
In three years, however–unless the Federal Reserve or the Obama administration take much stronger action than they are currently contemplating–it will be.
- Microsoft’s new spooky Windows 7 themes: use them in Ubuntu
- Microsoft have released two new seasonal-themed ‘themepacks’ for Windows 7. With a bit of renaming you can easily grab the wallpapers inside for use on any operating system – including Ubuntu.
…for the sake of being prim and proper, I’m going to walk you through extracting the wallpapers from inside these seasonal theme offerings and using them on Ubuntu.
- Well…that was special
- [The Captain And Lime - Jane]
Just got back from my first trip to the emergency room. Why? A plant attacked me with poisonous spit! Mug shots of my attacker:…
- You People Are Out Of Your Goddamned Minds
- [K. Tempest Bradford]
Can someone please explain to me how one makes the leap from “We no longer want to honor this person” to “Book burning and censorship“? You people do not even understand what censorship means, do you? And to this asshole [link] who threw up the Heinlein quote: since when was WisCon ever a government or a church?
Do you people even read? …
The bottom line is this: you are wrong. You’re just wrong. Bigotry: is wrong. Elizabeth Moon: was wrong.
That doesn’t mean that things or people or ideas or thoughts can’t change. But this is immutable: Bigotry has no place at any con, and I can only be thankful that many of the people who run and attend WisCon work very hard to eliminate it from that one.
- The return of the final serial comma’s vital necessity
- [Making Light - Patrick]
[Apparently it's a movie? -L]
- France on strike
- [The Big Picture]
Weeks of strikes, protests and demonstrations have brought much of France to a standstill as workers, students and others voice their strong opposition to a government proposal to raise the age for a minimum pension from 60 to 62…Update: Pension reform bill just now passed by French senate. (40 photos total)
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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