Iain Banks, Neal Stephenson, Michael Jordan: It’s a great thing to recommend an author that a friend gets excited about. Two years ago, I’d never heard of Iain Banks, who’s now one of my two favorite (living) science-fiction authors. If you like SF and you haven’t… ====== i’ve recently started to read banks too, mainly […]

The Frown : BECOME REPUBLICAN! more reasons than any ‘intelligent’ person needs….

t r u t h o u t – Bill Moyers | The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal The news is not good these days. I can tell you, though, that as a journalist I know the news is never the end of the story. The news can be the truth that sets us free […]

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The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE): The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE) is an international non-profit association founded with world class academics and business thought leaders to stimulate, and contribute to the development of the emerging Digital Economy, by promoting research projects as well as educational and training activities, in order […]

Bush: “I don’t know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act”: Or possibly he just said he was “unfamiliar” with it. I mean. Unfamiliar with U.S. history that happened in his own lifetime. Via HungryBlues. ——— scary…. or at least i think it is….

cooltech.iafrica.com | tech news Teen buried after ‘blog suicide pact’ Some 1000 mourners gathered in the northern French port of Calais on Tuesday for the funeral of a 15-year-old girl who, along with another teen feared dead, had made a suicide pact published on the web in the form of a blog. ——- hmmm…..

Fast Company Now As a result, it’s no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs. —– wipe your memories, stop looking at anything, burn your eyes out, mine mine mine.

Bird houses in Turkey: http://www.turkishculture.org/architecture/birdhouses.html ——— it is the little things in life that make a big difference.