December 2010
99 posts
“The Pro users of yesteryear’s products, the people with the biggest investment...”
– Chris Clark (via dandickinson)
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Kuumba means Creativity
December 31:
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our communty more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
This is an interesting way to think about “creativity” in general.
Jill Morris: An Imagined Letter From The Person... →
jillmorris:
Dear UCB NY, Yo. Dudes. Hear me out. I saw those valves and I thought, “Man, I gotta play with those valves.” Then, I thought, “Should I rethink this?” And before I could answer myself I was turning them, having the best time of my life. (Actually, the best time of my life was when I went to a…
“Comparing what we’re looking for misses the point. It’s wanting to...”
– Hannah, from the play Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
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WatchGreetings from Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station!
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Nia means Purpose
December 30:
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
“Are you watching the telly? There’s a program on about Mengele that dad...”
– Mom, shouting up the stairs
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Nia means Purpose
December 30:
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
“thank you note for hospitality”
– adorable Google query by dad, looking for advice
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Nia means Purpose
December 30:
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
morgantrsp replied to your photo: Plan for tonight/tomorrow.
Is that first one Atlantis?
Of course not! As every fedora-wearing archaeologist knows, Atlantis is in the Mediterranean.
melaniehamlett also replied:
Is bubble A supposed to be the Canary Islands? I love that place!
Nope, the Canary Islands (Spanish colony) are further north. I was in Cape Verde (independent nation), with my...
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Ujamaa means Cooperative Economics
December 29:
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
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Ujamaa means Cooperative Economics
December 29:
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
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Ujima means Collective Work and Responsibility
December 28:
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
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Ujima means Collective Work and Responsibility
December 28:
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
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Kujichagulia means Self-Determination
December 27:
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
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Kujichagulia means Self-Determination
December 27:
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
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Umoja means Unity
This year I celebrated Christmas with family on Cabo Verde, a group of islands off the coast of west Africa. The population is predominantly Catholic, so this post has nothing to with that. Rather, I’ve been curious about Kwanzaa for a long time. I only ever hear about it in two contexts:
When it is rounding out a list of holidays; Christmas and Hanukkah are really more of a pair; you need...
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Umoja means Unity
This year I celebrated Christmas with family on Cabo Verde, a group of islands off the coast of west Africa. The population is predominantly Catholic, so this post has nothing to with that. Rather, I’ve been curious about Kwanzaa for a long time. I only ever hear about it in two contexts:
When it is rounding out a list of holidays; Christmas and Hanukkah are really more of a pair; you need...
“Instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state,...”
– Paul Krugman, “The Humbug Express”
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Imani means Faith
January 1:
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Happy New Year!
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Kuumba means Creativity
December 31:
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our communty more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
This is an interesting way to think about “creativity” in general.
Merry Happy Christmas Holidays
It has been tirelessly pointed out to me, usually by the Internet but most recently by my mother, that Christmas is really an appropriation of a whole bunch of other pagan celebrations and it’s not even likely that Jesus was born around this time of year. So does it really mean anything?
Well, one way to look at it is that humans have consistently had some kind of late December celebration...
“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
– Anais Nin (via brooklynbridg) Need to pass this along to relatives who don’t get why I can’t “just relax” and “forget about work” on demand.
Human protocol update
I appreciate the responses to my question. I wasn’t looking for advice on how to phrase the suggestion myself; I am the guest here and usually have no clue what we are doing tonight and simply want to know what to wear.
Rather, I am trying to understand why my family seems to prefer “leading questions” as a form of instruction. Perhaps some people would rather respond,...
Help me understand human protocol
Is it ever preferable to ask, “Are you planning to wear a tie?” rather than directly stating, “You should wear a tie.”
Ron Burk: Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline... →
Almost all of Microsoft’s revenue comes from Windows and Office. Almost all of Google’s revenue comes from search results page advertising. Ron Burk writes about how these cash cows enable companies to waste a lot of money (to the detriment of shareholders) and distort the market (to the detriment of everybody else).
Think about it: every service that Google offers for...
notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours" →
Andre Torrez:
You may have heard that Delicious is shutting down (or not?). Someone on Twitter suggested that a group of engineers should get together on a weekend and build a Delicious clone. In anticipation of this mystery group of people sitting down and doing this, I thought I’d make a quick todo list for them.
Few things irk me more than people who flippantly underestimate the...
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Confession
Sometimes, when I’m standing around, waiting for my family, listening to the babble of a foreign language, observing the people walk by, I imagine that my camera bag, resting on my hip, shoulder strap across my chest, is actually a 23rd century tricorder.
F&@# YEAH STAR TREK MEMES →
I want to reblog them all!
Well, more like 82.937% of them.
“The huge number of children, dying in the streets of London, sparked a new wave...”
– Soothing British narrator, BBC World News, on TV just now
Surprise! I invited you to my house for lunch but I am throwing a party for you!
Say hello there are 200 people here. You do not know them and they do not speak English.
Food will be ready in two and a half hours.
Why are you not enjoying this? You have ruined everything. You have insulted us and also our ancestors.
Their ghosts will haunt your dreams tonight.