Friday, December 30, 2005
via How to Save the World comes a good take on GTD aimed at procrastinators.
Friday, December 30, 2005
In terms of activism, one way people can be very useful to their political movements is to monitor their local media for biased or inaccurate reporting.
Honest Reporting (a pro-Israeli media monitoring website) has a good section on How to Become a Media Patroller.
Friday, December 30, 2005
From Opencontent.org comes the OpenCourseWare Finder
This specialist search engine searches the following Universities for Open Course - usually university courses made available to the public for free.
“Open Course refers to the sharing of educational
materials with minimal restrictions, usually in the context of new
digital technologies available through the World-Wide Web. Its purpose
is the broadest [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
From Mark Steyn in the Daily Telegraph:
What’s the deal with these riots in Sydney? You switch on the television and there’s scenes of urban conflagration and you think, “Hang on, I saw this story last month.” But no. They were French riots. These are Australian riots. Entirely different. The French riots were perpetrated by [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
Again via Abelard:
‚ÄúThen Fallaci threw down the gauntlet to the multicultural, politically correct, and fearful. “There is not,” she asserted, “good Islam or bad Islam. There is just Islam. And Islam is the Qur’an. And the Qur’an is the Mein Kampf of this movement. The Qur’an demands the annihilation or subjugation of the other, and [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
“In courts and palaces he also reigns,
And in luxurious cities, where the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage; and, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
Friday, December 30, 2005
Via Abelard.org:
‚ÄúThe new Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, Britain’s first black archbishop, has been inaugurated. A 20-strong group of dancers - some bare-chested - performed a dance of “rejoicing and thanksgiving” wearing colourful head plumage of red, white and black feathers and leopardskin print skirts and T-shirts. The 3,000-strong congregation was mesmerised by the [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
Abelard tackles the topic of noise, loud music and hearing damage.
Hearing damage and loud music
I am wondering if this is related or a warning he once sent me after I posted details of how to increase the volume of Sony HD series MP3 players?
Friday, December 30, 2005
I love browsing images, especially the sort of random things people tend to post on their blogs.
There are several fun places once can go to see amazing images harvested from peoples uploads:
Flickr - the worlds most popular online image repositoryDelimages - Images being linked to by De.licio.us usersFound Photos - Random images harvested from [...]