In a classic blunder made by "average" people every day, it took this article to wake me up to the challenges of simple conveniences such as grocery stores to those who are height-challenged, muscle-impaired, or in a wheelchair. There ... more In a classic blunder made by "average" people every day, it took this article to wake me up to the challenges of simple conveniences such as grocery stores to those who are height-challenged, muscle-impaired, or in a wheelchair. There is an interesting video embedded, and the text (read, or listened to as it is read by a very good voice synthesizer!) is equally thought provoking. Spend the 8 minutes to read and watch this (11 if you watch the second video). URL: speedchange.blogspot.com
A very exciting project: a movie taken over a year at elementary, middle and high schools across the US. 900 hours of footage now need to be distilled to the message conveyed by all that this team saw in that year. They need your contr... more A very exciting project: a movie taken over a year at elementary, middle and high schools across the US. 900 hours of footage now need to be distilled to the message conveyed by all that this team saw in that year. They need your contributions to make that possible, watch the teaser and the short interview with the two women leading the project. Spread the word, this documentary needs to be seen! URL: dreamwithme.org
Interesting video and study, but also read the first comments. There a person takes the position that the experiment is faulty, a very defensive response. That in and of itself is fascinating. URL: www.boingboing.net
Chris has an interesting approach to planning for a new year. Rather than resolutions, which are often daunting and rarely kept, take aim at 3 guide words for the year and think through what you can do to hit them. Think as well about what may distract you so you are watching for the traps to achieving your goals.
The three guiding words are lighthouses or compass directions for my efforts. If I’m moving in those directions, I’m doing well. If I’m not on the path to those goals, then it’s clear that I’m working counter to my goals. See how that’s far more fluid than a static list of resolutions? Read more at www.chrisbrogan.com |
We’ve all seen it, the meeting of old school steam pipes and Victorian clothing with modern technology, think Blade Runner and Jules Verne. Under the radar there was a name attached to it, steampunk, and there are websites, clubs, cults, and art - pretty amazing art at that! Check this friend of mine out, first, then go on to see what else is out there. Very cool! Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum started ModVic (Modern Victorian) Home Restoration in June 2007 and have now moved onto steampunk Home Design. ModVic’s mission is to authentically restore historic Victorian homes (1850 – 1910) to their original beauty and richness while completely modernizing the home’s systems, functional layout and conveniences for the family of today (sound familiar?). Bruce and Melanie also love the steampunk design aesthetic of combining the best of Victorian high design and craftsmanship with modern functionality and usefulness. Read more at www.steampunkworkshop.com |
Dennis McNally does an incredible job of capturing the life and times of Jack Kerouac in a book, CD and DVD titled “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone.” Success ate him alive.
He had been a spiritual wanderer, and now he was famous. He’d become a great writer because of an
innocent eye and naïve fascination with life, and now he was inundated by
people who wanted something from him - women who wanted to fuck him, men who
wanted to argue with or fight him - dozens of people who thought they knew who
he was because they’d read a book which they might or might not have understood
at all. “…driven mad for three
years by endless telegrams, phone calls, requests, mail, visitors, reporters,
snoopers…”, he wrote. So he
drank. He’d been drinking since his
teens and dabbled with various drugs - amphetamines, pot, psychedelics - later,
but now he had the money to settle into a serious Johnny Walker habit. Read more at www.visnat.com |
For 19 years this successful charity works to find and assign shoppers to specific children to provide them a full bag of gifts when there would otherwise be none. Always amazing to find nearly 1000 children and single, young mothers who need simple gifts of clothing and supplies in the affluent-appearing towns south of Boston! The 2009 Gifts for Kids Program has begun! Check out the link for this year’s letter! If you would like to sponsor a child or family, please email us and we will give you all the info you will need to make someone’s holidays brighter!
If you wish to make a cash donation, please make your check out to�Gifts for Kids and send to Gifts for Kids, Post Office Box 464, Sharon MA 02067. Gifts for Kids is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax deductible. Should you need it, the� tax ID number is 203-361-694.
Please become a GFK sponsor or volunteer and spread the word about the Gifts for Kids Program.
Thank you in advance for caring.
Pat McDougal and Abigail Marsters Read more at giftsforkidsinfo.com |
Land sakes, Gillette is at it again!� They want our men to shave every inch of their bodies, and they are not giving up until we have a nation of hairless hammerheads!
First came the manscaping campaign telling our boys they should shave their privates because “The tree looks taller when there is no underbrush.”�� Evidently that metaphor didn’t work, because now, Gillette’s launching a new campaign called The BodycruZade, recruiting women to demand that men “make life smoother” for them.
“Entourage” actress, Emmanuelle Chriqui, is the campaign manager, and encourages women to join the campaign by sending a clever, customized video to that special someone, giving them a fake award for “The perfectly groomed man.”
My-oh-my, just look at that video, it must be downright torture for men not to run right out and shave themselves like sheep!� Why, the BodycruZade campaign office looks like a Playboy bunny audition room! Read more at lookingood.com |
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