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[goteam]

I need to go to the store for basic food staples like eggs and bread (we've finally admitted that the bread machine isn't working) but in the meantime, a little brain dump.

Previously worrisome tax stuff about the house has been sorted with our big scary corporate lender; now all I have to do is remind Lane County that I own this house, too. That

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[siobhan1]

I got a permission denied for the sorryeverybody.com thing... :/

[goteam]

That's very sad and ironic. Try it again, and I will email them to say "um, your site might not be visible internationally". The site authors themselves admit that their HTML is not the best, so it could just be a browser error or something.

[siobhan1]

Yay - now I can see it. Thanks :)

[auranja]

i would totally contribute to a "hope" project. this past summer, my theme was redemption. the two are so close.

[goteam]

Redemption, especially in the Christian sense, is a concept that has always baffled me somewhat. (I didn't really realize how bad the disconnect was until we were studying The Scarlet Letter in 11th grade and the teacher's big themes were sin and redemption, and it turned out later she was Christian and assuming the rest of us were more or less familiar with these concepts.) quizro gallantly attempted to explain it to me awhile back, but we seem to be operating from different starting points. I haven't given up on learning more about the idea, though, so if you ever find yourself wanting to write someone email or a letter about the subject, consider me the one in front bouncing up and down waving a hand, hollering "Pick me!"

[beanworks]

I'm all about looking for new ways to communicate, so your book/zine idea is neato. I'd be happy to help out.

[linley]

I've been too busy to write about hope for you, although I would like to at some point. I'd definitely contribute to a book/zine. You can self-publish books pretty easily nowadays; tomorrow I'm going to a publishing party for a friend who has just self-published a book about how to write screenplays. He's a big proponent of self-publishing, and I'm sure he could point you at resources if you decide to go that route.

As for news, a lot of people I know like Google News. It draws from a wide range of news sources from around the world, so you get lots of different perspectives on things.

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[cosyne]

i used to read news.bbc regularly for a non-cnn/fox perspective
http://cursor.org/ is, iir, left wing-ish
if you really want a non-us perspective, you could see what's on http://english.aljazeera.net