December 2011
56 posts
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are rediscovered by...”
– Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell (via psiloscribe)
In the future, history classes will be told that...
“That, in essence, is the recurring theme of these Ron Paul newsletters: “The...”
– slacktivist (via azspot)
Watchurbanfoodproduction:
this is a 1.5 hour documentary about the occupy movement. none of you know who i actually am but i am grateful that tumblr spotlighted my blog a few months ago and that there are nearly 7000 followers now. this documentary is pretty good. i think your parents would like it. retired folks would like it. little kids, if they can sit still, might even like it. reblog it. share...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey
10 Shocking Quotes From Ron Paul’s Newsletters →
“Canada is, increasingly, a petro-state, its economy dominated by the booming oil...”
– Why Canada Decides to Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol | Ecocentric | TIME.com (via mediafuturist)
“When Christians knelt in the Colosseum to pray as lions bore down on them,...”
– Walter Wink (via azspot)
FYI, I’m not Christian in the religious sense.
The Return Of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands Of... →
The GOP agenda… drag us back to a Charles Dickens-like society. Back to America’s original Gilded Age… back to a time before the federal government got involved in protecting the human and political rights of all our citizens.
Take, for example, what happened to Robin Sanders in Illinois. She was driving home when an officer pulled her over for having a loud muffler. But instead of sending...
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Restructuring
The end of the Fall semester signaled the start of the Engineering Department’s move into Wiggins and the Advanced Research Labs (two new buildings that complete the Shelby Center). Wiggins will house the Department of Mechanical Engineering — and by association: the Sol of Auburn shop. TIGER is wrapping up — and this new space is going to help us consolidate our tools and...
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White House to open source Data.gov as open... →
As 2011 comes to an end, there are 28 international open data platforms in the open government community. By the end of 2012, code from new “Data.gov-in-a-box” may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source.
via infoneer-pulse,...
