Notes from the Surf
Rabbit chasing snake (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebnrnGLKh0
You may strike like a snake, but you can never defeat my bunny-like reflexes!
Time travel paradox? (Comic)
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1465
Let's hear it for the scientific method.
How to tell the tourists from the locals (Pic)
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/dondelillo/files/2007/11/parr.JPG
I guess the only actual locals there would be the ones who are working.
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
"It is unclear exactly why CIA bureaucrats sometimes chose to emphasize entire documents..."
Food-backed Local Money
http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5158
When your bankers and politicians are out of control, at least you can control what you produce.
Madagascar: Soldiers ignore orders to shoot protestors. Prepare to defend people.
http://www.marxist.com/madagascar-troops-defy-orders.htm
The soldiers refused to obey orders to fire on the people and repress anti-government demonstrators. Following this, they then declared they would not obey government orders either.
Neighbors helping neighbors
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/02/13/neighbors-helping-neighbors-break-vacant-houses.html
Housing the homeless during economic collapse: “It’s a waste to have thousands of empty homes like this and people with no place to live.”
Police join demonstrations in Ireland
http://www.socialism.nu/showpost.php?p=22668&postcount=70
Often with "more militant slogans than those of the mainstream unions".
Canadian employees assume control of auto-parts plant
http://www.canada.com/Workers%20rally%20outside%20occupied%20auto%20parts%20plant/1402482/story.html
"They feel as though the law isn't working for them. They are prepared to fight that fight for all workers, union and non union."
Indonesia: Muslim women assume democratic control of factory that produced for Gap, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, and Adidas
http://www.marxist.com/pt-istana-factory-occupied.htm
the company put pressure on the electricity company to cut off the power supply... However, with help from supporters they managed to get a diesel power generator... At the same time, they are in negotiations with the union of the electricity workers (Serikat Pekerja PLN) to try to get reconnected to the power grid.