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Barry tweeted: Twitter Suggested for Nobel Peace Priz
Twitter and its creators are worthy of being considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for the role they played during the recent civil unrest in Iran, according to a former U.S. national security adviser.
Mark Pfeifle, a former aide for George W. Bush, suggests that Twitter be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded to those who push for “fraternity between nations” and for “holding the promotion of peace,” reports Brand Republic….
Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Pfeifle said: “When traditional journalists were forced to leave the country, Twitter became a window for the world to view hope, heroism, and horror.”
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 The source article is well worth reading; it makes you go 'hmm', and then 'um, quelle surprise.' In other news, my new bag of coffee that I only used once is MISSING. Now see, I live in an apartment with two bedrooms, one bath, a kitchen area, and a living/dining room. HOW COULD COFFEE GO MISSING? And yes, I've looked in the freezer. It's the first place I looked, in fact.
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Thanks to Rochelle I have these cool Flickr and Tag cloud widgets on the right side. They’re great… and hopefully useful. But cool nonetheless.
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I've seen a few of these posted about, and one rather spiffy artist I watch on FA has one that's in the pre-ordering phase right now. Check it out. http://www.patchtogether.com/?Product&pId=106 Aren't they CUTE?! They're being produced in pale colors to make it easier to customize them too. Figured I'd spread the word, since they won't actually cast them and mail them out until they have 30-odd more pre-orders. |
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I just drunk dialed my buddy Chris, who's on tour with 16 Volt, and he told me they are all drunk and they're 3 hours from their hotel room and can't figure out what to do. I told him to find some place there to sleep and failing that to sleep in the vehicles. Being drunk somehow he'd not thought of this (yet) but it seemed to relieve his mind that this was an option. He decided to ask his friend Jeremy who lives out that way to take them in for the night. I think right now he's going towards coffee and his friend so I'm glad I spoke with him. I doubt anyone in his right mind would throw 16 Volt out on the street but anyone reading this kindly send good energy to that traveling crew. Their own energy might not be all they need this night. If Chris makes it through this ridiculous adventure I shall have to give him a knotwork tattoo and a smack upside his head.
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I went to see Moon tonight with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lameautarch. It is definitely a mindfuck. Also, serious science fiction fans will enjoy it. It's vaguely reminiscent of 2001. I hadn't heard of it before today, but it seems to be getting good reviews. |
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Posting writing to FA again. Whatever else you can say about it, at least there I'm not likely to have the mods arbitrarily meddle in my postings. Tonight I felt like trying something new, so I'm going to be sharing pieces of a story that's not actually finished yet. I haven't posted it anywhere else, it's only available on Fur Affinity. It's titled "The Sanguine Canvas" and is a vampire story featuring Andrew, my kirjak. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sparkwrites/
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I re-subscribed to WoW. I forgot I was working on my 310% speed flying mount (Violet Drake). So I'll be playing until Halloween, AT LEAST. Then I don't know what I'll do. It just isn't fun anymore. I'm actually enjoying my time online more now that I'm not in a guild... Is that bad? |
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Seems like I may have spoken too soon - I finished the 1st episode of the new Monkey Island about 40 minutes after picking up where I left off. Did some shopping, bought some new pyjamas and a stack of new plastic kitchen container things because they were on special. I might have some lunch and do some more laundry. Woo. |
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I got the new Monkey Island game last night. Well, the first episode. I am really enjoying it. I've played all 4 of the Monkey Island series (it seems most geeks my age remember them fondly) but I just finished playing MI 3, again, the other week. I absolutely adore Monkey Island 3. Number 4, I didn't like as much and have only played a couple of times. The step from 2D cartoon to 3D polygons was a big mistake at the time, I think, but the new one by Telltale looks really good. If I had a slightly better graphics card (I have a GeForce 7600 GT which is a couple of years old now) it would look even better but as it is, the game looks lovely. It's still polygons so people have pointy bits but that's sort of alright considering how cartoony the models actually are. It's colourful and cartoony and exaggerated and that's the right way to do Monkey Island if you ask me. I've done a couple of the "map" puzzles in the first episode and think they're interesting - a change from the typical puzzles that may involve a map in these sorts of games. I won't say any more as it took me a while to twig and don't want to spoil that lovely moment of "ohhhh!" for anyone else. The humour is still there - albeit a little less quirky than in 3. I've only played it for about an hour, maybe hour and a half, and it feels like a really good continuation of the series. I haven't felt like I've been ripped off or that Telltale have ruined the game. I feel that some of the silliness may have been toned down - in 3, it was funny just because of the way Guybrush got out of predicaments (I adore the sequence between getting to the snake crossing area, being eaten by the snake, and then finally escaping to land in quicksand). The little extra quirks seem a bit few and far between so far in the new game, but it's still early days yet. It's almost like they used too much common sense in the puzzle solutions and all the character designs. I'll keep playing it today and see if it gets sillier. First I have to hang up some laundry and then I'll get stuck back into it. I am so glad that they decided to resurrect this series of games, and I'm so relieved that, so far, they've done all those fond adventure game geek memories justice. |
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our friend dani becauseshewas passed away on tuesday. i haven't seen her for a long time, but i remember walking around with her in the fall & that she carried a little salt shaker to put salt on her apple. and watching episodes of land of the lost with her & ryan in costa mesa. she used to send me explosive & fabulous emails, like this one from 2005: Choirs marred by mauve sheets of ice, leading each into the sky in
a row, a column of continuum reaching out while passing; all their
hands seem white, their eyes teary, and gasping. Each voice is
luminous to the makeup of the day, peeling into the orange sun,
crowded around a barrel fire at the turn of a corner, fingerless
gloves and the ruin of thousands of careers, spilled with the fall
of the markets, the roads ripped up and voicedover by palindromes
and prize-winning outbound hopes; each of them are still waiting,
still filling each moment of time. "I remember everything." We're
still sitting, but moving foward, leaving what behind? |
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It's cool to work at a university, where when you need a word in Aramaic, you just go to your friendly neighborhood Aramaic scholar and describe what you want. :-) רוקניא Rokanya, or void. |
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Last night I was enlisted by Chef Ron to help him in opening the first entirely raw-vegan restaurant in the Phoenix metro. We had a meeting at the new Whole Foods in Chandler. Today we went to the potential site and toured and prayed. The owner, Suzanne, was in emotional termoil due to her mother's failing health at the hands of melanoma cancer. So we didn't talk business. Instead we took a moment to pray and send warmth to these beautiful women. There are restaurants that have raw food and there is one (at least) entirely vegan... but none that are 100% raw vegan. I'm honored to be working with Ron. I'm not a raw foodist or a vegan but I'm very, very supportive of this cultural growth and want to support it. This also answers a question that had been bothering me. Before I went to Rainbow, I'd been offered a job working back in a fab. The prospect which previously would have been a god-send became an internal struggle between my new devotion to a healing/spiritual path and the old pursuits of making ends meet. I really did not want to take it but didn't know what else to do. This opportunity has answered that prayer in a ways. So I'm curious where this will go. More to come... |
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"And while almost all of the scientists surveyed accept that human beings evolved by natural processes and that human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming, general public is far less sure. [...] According to the survey, about a third of Americans think there is lively scientific debate on both topics; in fact, there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution and there is little doubt that human activity is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere in ways that threaten global climate." (NYT) (The survey) The ignorance of the American public sometimes amazes me. Not that I blame individuals so much as the media groups that are more interested in controversies than in truth and the Christian conservatives who spread disinformation and belittle the scientific method. But, still. Just another example of why critical thinking and information literacy need to be taught from grade-school up. Of course, maybe all those scientists who are concerned about the public's lack of understanding should pressure journal publishers to make scientific journals open-access, at least 6 months or so after publication. It's hard to understand what's going on in scientific circles if you can't read the original research. |
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