December 2009
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“If I Ever Leave This World Alive” -...
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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via rulesformyunbornson: librarysciences: lizlet)
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5 Moments of the Decade That Changed My Life
Grabbing lunch earlier this week with one of my dear friends at work, we got to talking about our “top 5” influential moments of the past ten years. We limited it to 5, because 5 is easier and makes you consider things more carefully.
Dropping out of high school (and getting a real education).
Meeting awesome people via the internet that I could call my friends (and still do).
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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Albert Einstein
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For 2010, think of self-reliance as progress →
Maybe our children will grow up stronger, more resilient, with values that center less on money and more on relationships and meaning. Maybe they’ll be more prepared to live well in an unpredictable world, learn craftsmanship as they build or fix their own toys, imagination as they invent their own games, and initiative as they find creative solutions to their own boredom.
And maybe...
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The Year In L.A. Music News
tumblangeles:
Everyone is doing their “Top 10 Lists” right now and I thought, why just repeat what your gonna read pretty much everywhere else? So I put together a mix of songs for you to download where each song represents a piece of 2009 local music news. Not everyone was included the way I would want to, but that would make a 3 hour mix that would take forever to download. Click the link...
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Big bonuses are back →
Many taxpayers are upset that banks that took TARP money, like Goldman Sachs, will pay out generous bonuses next year.
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“The New Year” - Death Cab For Cutie
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spytap:
I know that a number of my family and...
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Watchsecrets0ciety:
Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat
Regardless of how you eat, how you feel about your food, or your politics regarding food, this is a worthwhile piece via TED. It is not an argument for vegetarianism or veganism. It is a history of food, what has gone wrong, and how it impacts us today.
And above all, it is about eating and living responsibly.
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“Everyone Is Totally Insane” - The...
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Gives Me Hope →
In counter to the stories of FML, there is GMH.
I dare you to read a page of these stories and not feel inspired, and maybe even get a little misty eyed. They give me hope.
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GMH →
itsthemusicpeople: givesmehope:
Yesterday while I was working, a father with his daughter came in with two bags of toys. He told me they had just come from her 6th birthday party, and I assumed they had a bunch of returns. The girl then proceeded to tell me that instead of getting gifts, she asked all her friends to bring presents to donate to our toy drive. GMH.
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“I’ll Take You Home” - Matt...
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety)
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“Little Red Radio” - Pas/Cal
My god...
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The Fake Decade - Fakes - Gawker →
meganwest:
wow but this sums up so many things I find ridiculous. and wraps them all in a bow, too. it’s a festivus miracle.
Yeah, exactly that.
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How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I... →
This does not mean China is not serious about global warming. It is strong in both the wind and solar industries. But China’s growth, and growing global political and economic dominance, is based largely on cheap coal. China knows it is becoming an uncontested superpower; indeed its newfound muscular confidence was on striking display in Copenhagen. Its coal-based economy doubles every...
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“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions....”
– Albert Einstein
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12 Days of Xmas (in Los Angeles)
It could use some additional work, but I’m calling it done for right now. Some of it has specific context in my life (such as 10 generous strangers for the craigslist cyclist and 5 fuzz-y cats that I am catsitting this week), but mostly it’s just funny & sad & reflective of the holiday season in LA.
On the twelfth day of Xmas Los Angeles gave to me: 12 homeless neighbors 11...
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How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was... →
Indeed, Hertz is now being looked to as something of a visionary in Europe, someone uniquely qualified to rebuild our dilapidated economic theories while helping to create a blueprint for a new kind of capitalism. Her concept of “co-op capitalism” — an idea she plans to develop further over the next year — calls for businesses, governments, NGOs, and the public to...
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Bolivia's President blames capitalism for global... →
unburyingthelead:
secrets0ciety:
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, clearly frustrated with the progression of talks at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, today blamed capitalism for global warming. ”Who is responsible? The responsibility lies on the capitalist system—we have to change the capitalist system,” he said. His remarks clearly outlined the gulf between wealthy northern...
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The Builders' Manifesto →
Here’s the problem in a nutshell. What leaders “lead” are yesterday’s organizations. But yesterday’s organizations — from carmakers, to investment banks, to the healthcare system, to the energy industry, to the Senate itself — are broken. Today’s biggest human challenge isn’t leading broken organizations slightly better. It’s building better...
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The underlying divisions in the healthcare debate →
link via unburyingthelead
One finds this in far more than just economic policy, and it’s about more than just letting corporations do what they want. It’s about affirmatively harnessing government power in order to benefit and strengthen those corporate interests and even merging government and the private sector. In the intelligence and surveillance realms, for instance, the line between...
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.