Notes from the Surf
What I wanted to be when I grew up
http://15.media.tumblr.com/CWriXY2b2l3umdhqZrrObRCpo1_500.png
Snarky but interesting.
Milky Way rising over Texas
http://vimeo.com/4505537
I really need to go out and see this myself eventually.
Photos from the surf
http://forum.lessthandot.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=5874
"Surf" as in ocean, not "surf" as in the web.
Lava Burst
http://www.metanamorph.com/thumbnails-album,5,Lava%20Burst.html
The experience may have been fleeting, but at least we took pictures.
How do we convince ourselves that more stuff equals more happiness, when all the research shows that it doesn’t?
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/loves_labors_and_costs/
I wouldn't say I agree with all the conclusions here, but there's good food for thought.
Brazil and China to stop using dollars in trade
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/996b1af8-43ce-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Needless conversions just mean more red tape.
Blame the victim: Sacramento Mayor (D) and California Governor (R) work together on "zero tolerance" policy toward homeless
http://www.marxist.com/obamaville-homelessness.htm
"They're out of sight and in smaller groups now, which seems to be the unstated policy of our local government."
Uribe's Colombia decides to kill the poor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8038399.stm
"it was found that poor, young men had been recruited from the slums of Bogota, promised well-paying jobs in the province of Norte de Santander, then murdered in cold blood and presented by the army as having been killed in combat... soldiers were sent to the city of Medellin to round up homeless people from the streets who were later presented by the army as rebels killed in combat."
Toyota's fight against union employees leads to murder
http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-toyota-union-leader-murdered.htm
Do we have to add Toyota to the long list of companies that kill their employees in Latin America?
More employees in Chicago prepare to take over their workplace
http://www.workersunitedunion.org/content/hartmarx-workers-vote-sit-save-their-jobs-tarp-recipient-wells-fargo-threatens-close-obama-s
Not just the Hart Schaffner & Marx in Chicago, but also in a branch in Rochester.