HELIOLITH

From England’s Guardian Unlimited

At the rally, 12-year-old Moriah Arnold stood on her toes to reach the microphone and tell the crowd: “Now we know our leaders either lied to us or hid the truth. Because of our actions, the rest of the world sees us as a bully and a liar.’’
The sixth-grader from Harvard, […]

Lifting my long unused blog-voice as though to test the microphone, I share this link on geothermal energy (via slashdot today): MIT-led panel backs ‘heat mining’ as key U.S. energy source - MIT News Office.
Knowing that we (U.S. Residents) are consuming more than our share of the earth’s energy and resources, I am […]

I saw this bumper sticker in the supermarket parking lot last week, and it’s ringing truer and true as our current events become stranger every day. From the US today blocking a deal on fighting AIDS to the president pretending he could ever pass an anti-same-sex marriage ammendment to the Constitution, to the improbability […]

The UK’s Sunday Times runs the story today of the officially recognized massacre of 24 innocent civilians, including the elderly, disabled, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq at the hands of at least 4 U.S. Marines who according to one military official “suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership” it’s important to read what […]

I’m a fan of Snapfish, mainly because I can get digital prints at $0.10 per 4 x 6 if I prepay for 1000 prints ($100.00). Even after shipping, it works out a little cheaper than Costco or other local cheap digital developers. I like the prints truly developed like traditional film, not printed, […]

Care of KPFK’s Digital Village, come an interview with Robert W. McChesney, President of Free Press. They’ve posted a good informational essay from the San-Jose Mercury News here: Free Press : Saving Internet Equality. From that piece:
The choice facing lawmakers is stark: keep the Internet as a decentralized network that no […]

I haven’t stopped to look back very often since leaving Windows behind a year and a half ago. I’m not one to bash Microsoft at every opportunity. The fresh air of freedom of choice that I’ve experienced since moving into the Free Open Source Software side of tech-life is too good […]

Amarok has kept me quite busy over the last 24 hours. It’s the nicest jukebox/ music player I’ve ever used. A year ago before I broke off my relationship with Windows, I used iTunes and Winamp, and since switching over to linux have pretty much stuck with Xmms which was very slim and […]

Amidst the revolutionary innovation Google has spawned in the last few years, it seems tainted to me by the negative press and talk from playing nice with China’s censorship requests. I’m honestly not sure how I feel about their choice to play up to China’s national policy of flagrant disinformation, and how much […]

I’m grabbing an easy meme to unclog my pen, after Robert S. indirectly tagged me…
Four jobs I’ve had:
-teacher
-retail clerk
-census worker
-massage therapist
Four movies I can watch over and over:
-Princess Bride
-AmoresPerros
-Bend it Like Beckham
-Los Amantes del Circulo Polar
Four Places I’ve lived:
-Santa Cruz, CA
-Morelia, Mexico
-Sleepy Hollow, NY
-Berlin, Germany
Four TV shows I love!
(Very difficult, as I haven’t received a […]