Notes from the Surf
If You Like Tennis
http://imgur.com/tzJWT.jpg
Better than pong.
Confessions of a Hiring Manager
http://www.experience.com/alumnus/article?channel_id=technology&source_page=home&article_id=article_1173383927084
You agonized over the different sections and you stressed about the tone, and here I am, the hiring manager, and I read 1/10th of your work in 30 seconds... Here's a good example from an imaginary resume: "Proven success in leading technical problem solving situations". This line tells me nothing. Yes, I know you're trying to tell me that you're strategic, but there is no way you're going to convince me that you're strategic in a resume.
Bill Watterson's "Rarest"
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html
Interesting look behind the mind of Calvin and Hobbes.
Just War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elB3v1ulQcc
Games without frontiers, war without tears.
Veterans Affairs Statistics Show a Third of Women Sexually Harassed
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42939
For more about "killing yourself" by putting an M16 in your mouth, see August 4, 2008.
Opposition Win Greenland Election
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8080434.stm
Socialists lead with 44% of vote. Center-left in second place with 26%.
Marx Makes Headway in "Mainstream" Media
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/15701/
"Marx saw, just as many contemporary Americans are beginning to see, that the struggle for control of the financial system is part of the fundamental fight for democracy."
Russian Economy Drives Unemployed to Take Over Mayor's Office
http://www.mosnews.com/society/2009/05/20/pika/
"there is currently a famine in the city and residents have been forced to eat dogs."
Venezuela: Armed employees learn to defend themselves
http://links.org.au/node/1088
I wouldn't say everything in the article sounds good, but this I'd encourage others to spread: "The proposals made have emerged from the depths of the working class. I did not come here to tell you what to do! It is you who are proposing this."
Argentina: FASINPAT a Step Closer to Permanent Democratic Control
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1875/1/
"On April 8, 2003, during the most recent eviction attempt, over 5,000 community members from Neuquén came out to defend the factory."