Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I should learn how to directly link to youtube videos. Go here to see British troops beating children. If you don’t think war breeds hatred, do watch this. By the standards of things done in wartime, it’s really quite tame. There’s never been a war where children didn’t help attack invaders and invaders didn’t respond [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Pro-Peace Symbol Forces Win Battle in Colorado Town - New York Times
Worth reading to the end. I want to see the movie. It’s darn near a Capra tale.
(Thanks for the link, Blue Jean!)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2006 | No Comments »
By using a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Scottish and Canadian researchers have been able to show that sitting in an upright position places unnecessary strain on the back.
Sitting in this posture for hours at a time can lead to chronic back pain … The researchers say the best position in which to [...]
Posted in seeker on November 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I get questions now and then about plotting stories and dealing with writer’s block, so I’ve revised an old essay and posted it as Three Stories into One.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” African proverb
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2006 | 3 Comments »
“The Junta which took control of Thailand after a peaceful coup seems to be following Microsoft’s roadmap to success. Not only has the Junta abandoned the previous government’s plan to shift to Open Sauce, it has also canned its involvement the ‘one laptop per child’ scheme, which has been roundly attacked by Microsoft.” from Thai [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged self-publishing on November 27, 2006 | 26 Comments »
from Interview with Steven Brust - Writing Forums:
1. Don’t tell anyone who doesn’t need to know that you’re writing a novel. It is so much more fun to see the looks on your friends faces when you tell them you’ve sold a novel they didn’t even know you were writing.2. For the same reason, once [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged torture on November 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
uuworld.org : what torture has taught me
Lest you fear it’s too depressing, I’ll give you its conclusion:
Consider these two short vignettes from among dozens of encounters in my time at Amnesty. Nick Yarris spent twenty-three years on death row in Pennsylvania for a murder he did not commit—a singular form of torture. Asked how he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I love that phrase. It describes every shortsighted person who puts personal pleasure over the world’s good. It’s from a 1791 editorial in support of ending the British slave trade, quoted here:
With every argument in support of humanity, with every argument in support of trade and commerce; with every argument in support of national honour; [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2006 | 12 Comments »
It’s out on DVD. We just got it from Netflix. It has a “one year later” interview with Al Gore that reveals two things: the movie’s editor is very good, and capitalism is incapable of addressing the problems of capitalism the ecological problem keeps growing, but there are some hopeful signs, such as the slowing [...]
