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08 December 2009 @ 07:33 pm
Strange days indeed!

Most peculiar, mama.

Today started out to be quite challenging, and when i finally got to work two hours late (at 2pm) and had to immediately work at the reference desk for two hours, i said "Nobody told me there'd be days like these," quite forgetting that today is the 29th anniversary of John Lennon's murder. How could it be that long ago? I remember hearing Howard Cosell's shocking announcement during Monday night football (which my ex was watching) as if it was yesterday. The pain of this huge loss still feels fresh. At the same time, i am forever grateful for the many gifts that John Lennon gave to us all.

 
 
08 December 2009 @ 09:27 pm




 
 
 
08 December 2009 @ 10:10 pm
 
 
Current Music: Louis Garcia - Ibiza 2k9 (Heatloverz Remix) | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
09 December 2009 @ 03:09 am
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000539022021&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=2228594104&ref=ts

For those of you that don't know there's a facebook site promoting RATM for Christmas Number One with their song 'Killing in the name'. We have over 500,000 members already. The group was set up as a protest against XFactor crap gaining immediate entry at the top of the chart. It's just a fun way to make a protest, go join if you're interested. Or buy the single from `4th December onwards!
 
 
08 December 2009 @ 06:55 pm
Idea hijacked from [info]leahfu.



Stretch. Cue Music. Dance. )
 
 
Current Music: dance music <3
 
 
 
 
 
08 December 2009 @ 09:33 pm
So it looks as though the Senate leadership is finally going to drop the weakened version of the public option altogether. So much for healthcare reform.

The "good" news is that the Senate counterpart to the Stupak amendment failed. Which is great if one's definition of "reform" is "not fucking things up even more".

If the Democrats can't actually use their political power to reign in big business, then why bother voting for them? If they can't do it now, when can they ever?
 
 
 
09 December 2009 @ 02:30 am
 
 
 
08 December 2009 @ 09:21 pm
Climber Renan Ozturk watches a local Tibetan look at an illuminated manuscript found during an August 2008 expedition to remote Himalayan caves in the ancient kingdom of Mustang, today part of Nepal. The folio is part of a treasure trove of 15th-century Tibetan art and manuscripts that could be linked to the real-world inspiration for Shangri-La, a fictional paradise described by British writer James Hilton in his popular 1930s novel Lost Horizon.

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08 December 2009 @ 09:04 pm
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09 December 2009 @ 02:02 am
This blog deserves a fucking medal for lack of irony and gay.





 
 
08 December 2009 @ 05:52 pm

From Global Guerrillas

"The introduction of outsourcing platforms that makes worker productivity portable and portable global capital leads to global labor arbitrage (which neatly guts the theories of comparative advantage upon which belief in the beneficial effects of modern trade theory is based).

In short, exploiting the differences between the wages of the western middle class and those in developing economies is now costless and risk free (which makes it an arbitrage opportunity). Arbitrage opportunities, once found, typically reset to zero quickly (the differences in prices are brought into parity).

The result in this case will be a globally normalized wage where the same price is paid for labor no matter where it is located geographically. Almost certainly, given what we are currently seeing right now, the biggest shift will be in the collapse in the incomes of the Western middle class instead of upward movement among low wage competitors. The income stasis of the last three decades is already being replaced by rapid decline.

One potential political result of the collapse of our short experiment with financially empowered individuals (a rising tide lifts all boats scenario in Western democracies) is likely a creeping global neo-feudalism of indefinite duration (decentralized and autocratic stasis held in place by fluid globalized markets).

The lesson: the ability to bootstrap resilient communities, and a new social contract, using locally derived resources will decline rapidly over the next decade."

 
 
Current Mood: cynical
 
 
 
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder said that although the years since the brazen attacks had been painful ones that forced all Americans to rethink their place in a complex and terrifying new world, people were also just insanely busy.


 
 
07 December 2009 @ 10:43 am
Fort Worth, Texas...near River Legacy Park