Archived Posts
Jun
How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts
via lifehacker.com
Good bit of advice, if you have the equipment to do it….
Posted via web from mbjones
Jun
The Economics of the World Cup | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
via mint.com
This is an interesting infographic on the money behind the world cup…
Posted via web from mbjones
Jun
GOOOAAAALLLLL!
via vimeo.com
I happened to be filming the crowd sing the national anthem where we where watching the South Africa opening World Cup match right as South Africa got their goal and craziness broke out. It went on quite a bit longer than I filmed (this was just shot on a small point and shoot, [...]
Jun
10,000 Haitian Farmers March Against Monsanto – Reverend Skye Murray – God’s Politics Blog
More than 10,000 farmers marched in Haiti last Friday, opposing a $4 million donation of hybrid seeds from the Monsanto Corporation that are being shipped with the support of the Haitian government and under the auspices of USAID. Small farmers — the backbone of Haiti’s agricultural system — say that since hybrid seeds cannot be [...]
Jun
Skye Jethani: Global Christianity and a Concern for the Poor
This sudden popularity of global justice has caught some older evangelicals off guard. They are concerned that the under-40 crowd is abandoning conservative theology in favor of a social gospel. What they fail to realize is that my generation is not rejecting Christian orthodoxy. We are rejecting the false dichotomy that the American church has [...]
Jun
Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Conscience Leading to Leaks | Threat Level | Wired.com
Manning isolated a key turning point in his regard for the military; he said it was when he was ordered to look the other way in the face of an injustice.
Manning had been tasked with evaluating the arrest of 15 Iraqis rounded up by the Iraqi Federal Police for printing “anti Iraq” literature. “The Iraqi [...]
Jun
Op-Ed Columnist – Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even. – NYTimes.com
This is baffling, and then some, given BP’s atrocious record prior to this catastrophe. In the last three years, according to the Center for Public Integrity, BP accounted for “97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors” — including 760 citations for “egregious, willful” violations (compared [...]