insights from the digital future
Unfortunately, we missed out here on the West Coast. Already more than 2,000 photos posted at flickr, though… many of them just spectacular. Also, see this awesome animation by Jonas Thomén (Finland). Click on individual photos in the stream below for more detail.
Thanks, once again, Paul Stamatiou for the original instructions on flickr embedding.
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Visit Reasonable Agreement and The Small Print Project.
* Can anyone tell me why Google Reader doesn’t have a search/filter function?
— considering the nature of The Google, I suspect that either a) I’m missing something or; b) this will be resolved by the end of the weekend.
cartoon by RJ Matson.
* The new Secretary of Defense is both demanding and accepting resignations. I wouldn’t call this refreshing — the last SecDef would deny any wrongdoings to the grave, but the Walter Reed scandal could have been handled months ago and only know that it’s been uncovered is action being taken. You go to war with the hospitals you have…, right?
So, Robert Gates, or Bob, as the case may be — I dare you to take preemptive measures and have Halliburton/KBR etc pay us back some money so we can have welfare and education in the States. And democrats, support the troops — but don’t support the contractors!!! Even the troops can’t stand them (not the individuals, but the contracting corps w/ non-bid, cost-plus arrangements). Ok, so I did just watch Greenwald’s Iraq For Sale.
Exhale.
And now, some music, from the new Arcade Fire release, Neon Bible
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