February 2011
Tor is playing a key role in helping Egyptians... →
soupsoup:
Fahrah Stockman at Boston Globe
Over the last three days, 120,000 people — most of them Egyptian — have downloaded Tor software, which helps activists protect their identity from surveillance by repressive regimes and get around blocked sites, according to Andrew Lewman, executive director of Tor, which provides the software for free.
“We saw this huge amount of traffic,’’ said...
January 2011
“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a...”
– Wei Wu Wei (via parkstepp)
Clifton writes re: Frank Proffitt
He does a song Going Across the Mountain which is in the Cold Icy Mountain family of songs. Frank refers to joining “the boys in blue” and giving “Johnny Reb” a taste of his rifle ball, and so forth. Most people think these are Civil War songs but they go back probably to the Revolution when “the boys in blue” were the Continental Army and “Johnny...
stray bullets
uncertaintimes:
How to Date Old Photographs by the Costume
Dating Old Photographs
Symbols: Sources for Identifying and Deciphering
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears...”
– William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act II Scene I (via loveandzombies)
Frank Proffitt - Cumberland Gap
My son Clifton...
Residents of Southern Sudan vote to secede, ending... →
We’ll all forget to watch what happens next.
5 Things Progressives Should Do—and Not Do →
#4 Organize for a collective defense against foreclosures and evictions. Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?
Help The Egyptian People →
iihaveaheadachee:
allyouzombies:
Sometimes we see things in the media and wonder how we can really help. Right now, the Egyptian government is periodically blocking Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, which are critical tools for organizing protests. But with all of our help, Egyptians and others in the region can jump their government’s firewall and anonymoulsy access these online...
“Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives “on...”
– The Human Brain Is On The Edge Of Chaos (via labnotes)
YESA+! (via clothedinsky)
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.”
– Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
WikiLeaks spin-off OpenLeaks is now live. →
“Any hobbyist worth his or her salt will, in turn, be admiring the Stuxnet code...”
– William Gibson (via azspot)
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the (U.S.) media.
~...”
– (via julieanne)
“Most meditative practices begin with attention to the breath. Some schools of...”
– Ben Howard, Effortless effort « One Time, One Meeting
See also http://tumblr.com/xfbj0k6iq for an exercise that may help you come to understand this idea of being breathed
(via sharanam)
mariser:
Ani DeFranco and Indigo Girls -...
After the Solstice
blueheron:
The sun stays longer.
The momentum of winter
Carries the dark chill.
Matua Ed On Māori Television →
“A new series of the reo-version of the 1960’s classic comedy ‘Mister Ed’; viewers won’t be able to get enough of the Māori speaking horse! “
My daughter in New Zealand writes: My coworker Melissa just told me there are old black and white Mr. Ed re-runs screening on Maori TV. Apparently, there’s quite a Maori viewers market for “Mr.” Ed reruns, as all the shows are...
Bolivia: Coca-chewing protest outside US embassy →
ryking:
Best. Protest. EVER!
“Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a...”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via loveandzombies)
“Donald Verrilli, Jr., a former attorney with the RIAA, has been nominated by...”
– Digital Music News, Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Espresso Synesthesia
blueheron:
Many times I’ve pressed the lever And watched the shot ooze from the spouts Like mellow honey lather; Counted breaths to time the shot, Neglected pangs of hopes and doubts - Each pull what another’s not. Pressure varies with the tamp (Too loose and I’ll fall clear through) To make each grain hot and damp. As this stroke wavered, lite or strong, Sweet or bitter shifted too In taste...