Can you help? I can't tell you about the $1000 backer (there really is one!) yet (I wish I could!) but Bill McKibben called the project "fantastic" on twitter. Does that help?

If not, enjoy the art you see anyway! Here's the link directly: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1112121841/we-are-all-in-this-together

My sister is a REAL artist. As such she doesn't fritter around with a gazillion mini-online shops. Nope, she goes for a kickstarter, and gets attention from famous climate activists and real organizations and other amazing awesome stuff.


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Been reading a lot about con harassment, mostly first person stuff, some harassed/attacked, some allies, some bystanders. I've never been to a con. (go figure). I have a couple of thoughts, and then I'll share some so you can too ( Read more... )

Across the water a great blue heron hunted, apart from the four Sandhill cranes. They watched our paddle lift and fall still, lift and still. We drifted and the heron watched. The cranes returned to their own business. A kingfisher chattered. Our bellies grumbled quietly, as we too thought to seek our own dinners. A swallow caught its prey overhead ( Read more... )

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Jed was writing about what he wants in an eBook reader. I don't want an eBook reader. But this, combined with a conversation I had about tablets in Babylon 5 and another conversation about cell phones, did make me think of what I would like for computing hardware. Turns out, I want ONE device, please, portable, robust, flexible, computationally ( Read more... )

• 15:34 I still might manage somehow to go see "Avatar" -- Na'vi is one reason why: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1977
• 15:45 I'm very happy with the quality of the minipins and travel mugs from #CafePress: bit.ly/5ZdTWY
  and bit.ly/5nLYSk
• 23:04 Thanks to T out west for choosing a Dragon Reader magnet! www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.180461728

• 08:23 cnn.com/live in one room, NPR radio in the other. Er... maybe not the best plan. We'll see!
• 09:36 CNN: visual- views of DC, intensity of event
  NPR: audio- wider perspective -- BBC interviews, folks that voted for McCain, etc.

from twitter to LJ via LoudTwitter

Picked up in the Midd Co-op a magazine called What is Enlightenment?, last October's issue. A bit heavy in the "we're so enlightenedly cool we can hardly stand ourselves; Let Us Show You the WAY" in a NeoBuddhist kind of way, but cheerful and some interesting ideas ( Read more... )