tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51354292024-03-07T18:37:04.781-05:00shoup houseget your shoup onkatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712910885329889983noreply@blogger.comBlogger2783125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-27822838478622040582012-04-09T23:27:00.000-04:002012-04-09T23:33:09.632-04:00hey now<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7UMJi6xVe70" width="480"></iframe>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-21511342713800395412011-12-06T02:27:00.000-05:002011-12-06T02:45:55.975-05:00Whoo!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iqCkICXWdWI" width="420"></iframe></div>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-3708080443944955142011-08-21T18:27:00.001-04:002011-08-21T19:00:30.504-04:00"I am tired of violence"<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Martin_Luther_King_-_March_on_Washington.jpg/220px-Martin_Luther_King_-_March_on_Washington.jpg" align="right" style="margin-left:8px;padding:5px;border:1px black;" alt="MLK">"I've decided that I'm going to do battle for my philosophy. You ought to believe something in life, believe that thing so fervently that you will stand up with it till the end of your days. I can't make myself believe that God wants me to hate. I'm tired of violence. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. We have a power, power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails, but we do have a power. Power that cannot be found in bullets and guns, but we have a power. It is a power as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth and as modern as the techniques of Mahatma Gandhi."
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<br />Martin Luther King Jr, as quoted in <a href="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/08/your-best-friend-calls-you-and-tells-you-heshes-really-sick-how-do-you-show-you-care.html">The Devil Still Pirouettes Among Us</a> by Fred Zackel.
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<br />sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-34460369652427015042011-05-16T15:27:00.000-04:002011-05-16T16:30:20.311-04:00Note to self<img src="http://www.ftrain.com/art/schedule.png"><br /><br />From the always perspicacious <a href="http://www.ftrain.com/tickle.html">Paul Ford</a>.sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-42167597416826389652011-04-14T16:09:00.001-04:002011-04-14T16:09:17.118-04:00Canadian young people are apathetic about politics?<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehuehn/5619477569/" title="McGill University Vote Mob"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/5619477569_2d098fb4dd.jpg" alt="McGill University Vote Mob by davehuehn" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehuehn/5619477569/">McGill University Vote Mob</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehuehn/">davehuehn</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p></p>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-76461305066072865782011-03-30T17:27:00.000-04:002011-03-31T18:56:01.355-04:00Map of Tasmania...<object width="600" height="366"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youclubvideo.com/req/swf/player.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="flashvars" value="config=http://www.youclubvideo.com/embedCfg.js?mid=153560"><embed src="http://www.youclubvideo.com/req/swf/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http://www.youclubvideo.com/embedCfg.js?mid=153560" width="600" height="366"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.youclubvideo.com/video/153560/amanda-palmer-map-of-tasmania-2011" target="_blank">Amanda Palmer - Map Of Tasmania - 2011</a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-27292201835681203102011-02-08T14:27:00.000-05:002011-02-08T14:52:13.562-05:00regional art<a href="http://www.facebook.com/paulmutant"><img src="http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/not_available.jpg" alt="This painting is not available in your country" border="0"></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/paulmutant">Paul Mutant</a>, 2010.sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-66577706141184531282011-01-31T15:27:00.002-05:002011-01-31T16:20:51.840-05:00Cairo graffiti<img title="The people want the regime to fall" src="http://www.occupiedlondon.org/cairo/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5401829433_71972ef718_z.jpg" alt="'The people want the regime to fall'" width="640" height="427" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"The people want the regime to fall"</div>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-42496666347217918352010-12-21T15:27:00.000-05:002010-12-21T16:34:09.682-05:00Re: previous post<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/4736294891/" title="MartinReis_G20_June26_20101388 by Martinho, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4736294891_549ec4f5cd.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="MartinReis_G20_June26_20101388" /></a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-63167478127736644082010-12-21T14:27:00.000-05:002010-12-21T15:04:54.782-05:00So many lives sacrificed...<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock/5272990658/" title="So many lives sacrificed, by ˇBerd, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5272990658_2dbcd65d1f.jpg" width="414" height="500" alt="So many lives sacrificed," /></a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-53817498334176541342010-09-02T15:27:00.002-04:002010-09-02T16:20:56.505-04:00RIP, James Reimer"We must involve ourselves in the world, but that means it's going to be messy. We live in a fallen world and can't live pure lives. As we live boldly in the world, we will automatically fall short."<br />
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<a href="http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/771830">James Reimer, 1942 - 2010</a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-45519238864534328092010-08-16T14:27:00.002-04:002010-08-16T14:53:55.482-04:00Eno on gifts<blockquote>“Well I’ll tell you, one thing I would say about your film is that it would be really interesting for people to see is how beautiful things grow out of shit. Because, nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head – they somehow formed in his head – and all he had to do was write them down, and they would kind of be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and what would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, that the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. And I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives that that’s how things work.<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/29/2943/DOKRD00Z/ludwig-van-beethoven-autograph-score-sheet-for-the-10th-bagatelle-opus-119.jpg"></div><br /> If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted – they have these wonderful things in their head but you’re not one of them, you’re just a normal sort of person, you could never do anything like that – then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of like, where you say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much and start from unpromising beginnings. And I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.”</blockquote>-Brian Eno, as quoted in <i>Another Green World</i> by Geeta Dayal (<a href="http://magicalnihilism.com/2010/04/19/blog-all-dog-eared-pages-another-green-world-by-geeta-dayal/">via</a>, <a href="http://www.atu2blog.com/grace-makes-beauty-out-of-ugly-things/878/">via</a>)sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-90800410147226642732010-08-09T12:27:00.000-04:002010-08-09T12:48:37.800-04:00Hierarchy of Robot Needs<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/4856253668/" title="Hierarchy of Robot Needs by lunchbreath, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4856253668_422145af99.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Hierarchy of Robot Needs" /></a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-51263448015645975722010-07-28T23:27:00.000-04:002010-07-28T23:32:03.469-04:00Jane Austen's Fight Club<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/r2PM0om2El8&hl=en_US&fs=1?hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/r2PM0om2El8&hl=en_US&fs=1?hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-17952214911803300582010-07-23T11:27:00.000-04:002010-07-23T13:04:08.374-04:00Bike Cake<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/philipyk/2707849548/" title="Wedding Cake by philipyk, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/2707849548_25bde88d35.jpg" width="500" height="375" border="1" alt="Wedding Cake"></a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-35535574469511209682010-05-01T00:27:00.001-04:002010-05-01T00:45:58.629-04:00Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Arizona's new immigration lawQuote of the Month:<br /><blockquote>"Abominations such as Apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. <b>They start here.</b> They start with generalizing unwanted characteristics across an entire segment of a population. They start with trying to solve a problem by asserting superior force over a population. They start with stripping people of rights and dignity – such as the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty – that you yourself enjoy. Not because it is right, but because you can. And because somehow, you think this is going to solve a problem."</blockquote>Read more at <a href="http://thecommunity.com/blog/2010/04/28/arizona-the-wrong-answer/">theCommunity.com</a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-53786557714050691992010-03-11T11:27:00.000-05:002010-03-11T13:25:03.737-05:00Classic search<img src="http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/5d4f2e5bde8b8fd03dd5f0accfe8a47057e42266_m.jpg" align="center" border="1" alt="Old-school Google">sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-19943301938752028302010-02-10T19:27:00.000-05:002010-02-10T19:58:34.769-05:00Crash<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=9dfb00de2f&photo_id=4320733810&flickr_show_info_box=true"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=9dfb00de2f&photo_id=4320733810&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="225" width="400"></embed></object>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-72257114563407950982010-01-14T10:27:00.002-05:002010-01-14T11:49:54.256-05:00Haïti: MCC respondsMCC is gearing up for a massive relief effort in Haïti and seeks to raise at least $1 million U.S. According to their <a href="http://mcc.org/stories/news/mcc-respond-haiti-earthquake-donations-welcome">press release</a>:<br /><blockquote>"MCC workers in Haiti include nine people from Colombia, the Netherlands and the United States; seven Haitian program staff members; and additional support staff. All program staff located in Port-au-Prince, the capital, are accounted for. Although the communications infrastructure in Haïti has been disrupted, staff members were able to send a message via the U.S. embassy. All MCC staff members who have been in touch report seeing bodies in the streets, according to Daryl Yoder-Bontrager, MCC Latin America and the Caribbean director. MCC is working to contact staff outside Port-au-Prince.<br /><br />MCC is planning its response which will include short-term relief plus recovery efforts over the medium and long term. "We're looking carefully at how we can build peace, avoid violence and do good community development at the same time," said Yoder-Bontrager.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://donate.mcc.org/project/haiti-earthquake" title="Donate to help MCC respond to the crisis in Haïti"><img src="http://mcc.org/system/files/imagecache/news_main/images/stories/IMG_3576%20web.jpg" border="1" alt="A dead victim is carried away after being pulled form rubble in the Narette zone of Port Au Prince, Haiti. Photo by Ben Depp, courtesy of mcc.org" align="center"></a></div><br /><br />MCC regional disaster management coordinators Kathy and Virgil Troyer, based in Honduras, will travel to Haïti as soon as possible to help with the planning and implementation of MCC's response. The Troyers are from Orrville, Ohio."</blockquote><br />Here's an interview MCC's Linda Espenshade did with the Troyers <a href="http://mcc.org/stories/podcasts/mcc-disaster-coordinators-head-haiti">yesterday</a>:<br /><br /><div align="center"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http://mcc.org/system/files/podcasts/troyerpodcast12_13.mp3" width="400" height="27" allowscriptaccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="window" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" /></embed></div><br /><br />You can <a href="https://donate.mcc.org/project/haiti-earthquake">donate to MCC online</a>.sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-57243884813075912452009-12-18T15:27:00.000-05:002009-12-18T16:08:24.178-05:00"They want to ride to school. So they do."<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7735814&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7735814&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><br />Read more about the teenager-run <a href="http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/12/10/orlando-kids-take-back-the-streets-by-bike/">High School Bike Bus</a> in Orlando.sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-24092068674953896432009-12-12T18:27:00.000-05:002009-12-12T18:49:08.928-05:00What I'm giving for Christmas this yearA donation to WindowFarms.org! I can't wait to try this out myself, and I want as many people as possible to have the chance to benefit from this ingeniousness.<br /><br />I'm donating via <a href='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/turn-our-cities-windows-into-vertical-veggie-farm'>kickstarter.com</a>, and you can track the progress of the project funding below:<div align="center"><a href='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/turn-our-cities-windows-into-vertical-veggie-farm'><img border='0' src='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/turn-our-cities-windows-into-vertical-veggie-farm/widget/card.jpg' /></a></div><br />Watch this video to learn more about <a href="http://windowfarms.org">Window Farms</a>!<br /><div align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLJ6ZDfw3OA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLJ6ZDfw3OA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-42387862547329289342009-12-08T22:27:00.000-05:002009-12-08T23:01:30.847-05:00Trim Tabs<img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c259/Shamou101/boat.jpg" align="right" style="padding:10;">"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trim Tab."<br /><br />— R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy, Feb 1972sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-8363276650580961752009-11-30T00:27:00.001-05:002009-11-30T00:27:00.301-05:0060 seconds in the life of Thanksgiving<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7757376&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7757376&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7757376">60 Seconds in the Life of Thanksgiving</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user819914">Ironic Sans</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. Give it time.</p>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-27008965515658427442009-11-16T23:27:00.002-05:002009-11-20T13:43:31.526-05:00Olympic Resistance in Canada<a href="http://www.no2010.com/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4068732013_3115288054.jpg" style="padding:10px;" border="1" alt="No to 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land (photo by Flickr user blackbird_hollow)"></a><br /><br /><strong>"They love everything about Indigenous Peoples, except the people"</strong>: A talk by Gord Hill, member of the Kwakwak'wakw Nation, editor of <a href="http://www.no2010.com/">No2010.com</a>, and resident of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Listen in the player below, or <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/files/dawnpaley@gmail.com/3632-1-gordhilloct1909.mp3">download it</a>.<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http://www.radio4all.net/files/dawnpaley@gmail.com/3632-1-gordhilloct1909.mp3" width="400" height="27" allowscriptaccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="window" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" /></embed>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135429.post-51643368368913676862009-11-03T22:27:00.001-05:002009-11-03T23:03:57.448-05:00Quote of the season"I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal."<br /><br />- <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/20nissan.html">Colin Nissan, in McSweeney's</a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217694658840531263noreply@blogger.com0