January 2009
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have...”
– Groucho Marx
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Sons of Kenyan Village Build First Clinic →
hilker:
the email i just received from blood:water mission:
“The Lwala clinic which is the subject of the documentary, SONS OF LWALA, will get national attention tonight, January 30, 2009 when founders Milton and Fred Ochieng’ will be named as the World News Person of the Week on the ABC Nightly News. Tune in between 6:45 pm and 7 p.m, EST to catch the segment.
SONS OF LWALA tells the story of...
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Airplane II
Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew?
Witness: Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: *Andy* went to pieces?
Witness: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: *Howie* came unglued?
Witness: Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Witness: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Witness: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.
Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande?
Witness: No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.
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Love Your Enemies
In a large open area of a Rwandan prison, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana spoke to a crowd of killers responsible for the 1994 genocide. “Close your eyes,” he instructed them. “Go back in your mind to 1994. What did you see?” he asked. “What did you smell? What did you hear?”
Many in the crowd began to weep. He told the men to see their victims’ faces. The sobs grew louder. “Now,” said Bishop...
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PBS offers free download of "The Presidents"...
mirza:
PBS has The Presidents (part of the American Experience) available as a free download. My personal favorite episode is their documentary on FDR. This is quiet a good deal considering the box set costs $130
I am definitely downloading these.
On a side note, PBS could’ve saved a ton on bandwidth costs if they distributed these (totally legal) files via bittorrent.
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Geoff Moore & The Distance -...
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“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them...”
– - Earl Wilson (via davereed)
Nice, although I’m sure I could think of others if I bothered… ;)
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Why should the Devil have all the good music?
I have been trying for quite a long time—-unsuccessfully—to find “Evolution…Redefined” (1993) on the web, since it was among the CDs that were stolen from me years ago. Today I struck gold. It’s so much fun to listen to this album again. I have always loved the intro riff to Moore’s live version of “Why Should The Devil Have All The Good...
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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their...”
– Theodore M. Hesburgh
via kari-shma: hilker: katelyns-otherleft
(via davereed)
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Holy crap: 1 TB hard drive: $99 + free S&H from... →
This is an amazing deal. I’m frantically trying to think how I can justify this.
Kyrgyzstan under major attack →
Cyberattack, that is. Major “denial of service” attacks at the ISPs.
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http://www.myspace.com/sarabareilles →
She’s got some good stuff besides “Love Song.” I’m enjoying it.
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Swiss police spy marijuana field with Google Earth →
(via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
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Fox picks up "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" →
Disney just lost a boatload of cash.
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Human Sewage to Power Buses in Norway →
hilker:
davereed:
hippieflavor:
Biomethane is a by-product of treated sewage. Microbes break down the raw material and release the gas, which can then be used in slightly modified engines. Previously at one of the sewage plants in the city half of the gas was flared off, emitting 17,00 tonnes of CO2. From September 2009, this gas will be trapped and converted into biomethane to run 200 of...
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I just realized I could embed my tumbltape on my...
Sweeeeeeeeet.
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modernrock:
“Might Have Been Hurt” Switchfoot...
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Sister Hazel - “Back Porch” and...
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He finally did it. →
(via nomosshere)
Nice.
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“Bird’s cutback in musical drama inadvertently begs for a sharper focus on...”
– Andrew Bird: Noble Beast :: Music Reviews :: Paste
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"We won the election. We wrote the bill."
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic “stimulus,” but now that Democrats...
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Blowfish testicles sicken 7 in Japan →
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Blowfish testicles sicken 7 in Japan →
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Meet the New Tone, Same as the Old Tone
“In an interview with one of the Middle East’s major broadcasters, President Barack Obama struck a conciliatory tone toward the Islamic world, saying he wanted to persuade Muslims that ‘the Americans are not your enemy,’ ” the New York Times reports. “The interview with Al Arabiya, an Arabic-language news channel based in Dubai, signaled a shift—in style...
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Study: newborns not necessarily "white" at birth...
Newborns can follow a rhythm, a new study has found, suggesting rocking out is innate.
The finding, published in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds to growing evidence that the newborn brain is not the blank slate it was once thought to be.
This may be particularly true when it comes to sound. Infants as young as 2 days old can process pitch...
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