“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid
Twitter  26 April 2013 | LINK
RT @Liberationtech: International Human Rights Body Seeking Answers on US Civil & Political Rights Record. aclu.org
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Life under Thatcher: Unemployment v Champagne Shipment to UK

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It’s amazing how much policy and program is excreted as a by-product of career ambitions.
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RT @stevelambert: Change doesn't start with action, it starts with vision. Artists are great at creating visions.
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After 30 years, a son meets his father, after 30 years two sisters meet again — a reality TV show in Cambodia helps reunite families divided by the Khmer Rouge.

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Neil Freeman: “More than physical space, a city is a set of cultural norms. A kind of shared dream.”
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Pebble watch face idea: Ulysses, abridged, in real-time over 24 hrs.
Twitter  23 March 2013 | LINK
“People don’t go to a museum to see the newest exhibit… they go to see it with people they care about.” colleendilen.com/…
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RT @annegalloway: #Bees can remember human faces, but only if they are tricked into thinking that we are strange flowers. http://harpers.org/findings?search=Bees
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Love this protest graphic. #freepussyriot

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Hey #China hackers, if you want to help the motherland, could you at least get everyone off of #InternetExplorer 6?
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When Troy Saved Its Library with a Book Burning Party

A guerrilla marketing campaign uses outrage to drum up social media and mainstream media coverage, and dramatically redirects the framing of a proposed tax increase to save the local library.

Hoaxing the people you want to support you is a risky proposition. But this time it paid off. (via)

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“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that defences of peace must be constructed.” —UNESCO Constitution, 1945
Twitter  11 February 2013 | LINK
“The river of freedom has many stops.” – Ella, age 4.
Twitter  8 February 2013 | LINK

What is the Definition of Manhood?

What is manhood?

Well done, Times of India. (source)

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“If you don’t understand capitalism’s role in contributing to a problem, you probably won’t be able to rely on capitalism to chart a path to the solution.”

What Capitalism Can’t Fix, Harvard Business Review on public works and a concise teardown of some of the “social innovation” rhetoric.
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RT @jcutbirth: Times revises Koch obituary to report "hundreds" of New Yorkers sick of dying of AIDS in the 80s. The number is actually closer to 30,000.
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