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Make a Simple Paper Hat (blog entry) A proposal at Omidyar Network for grants that I was following did not get chosen. The proposal is about the #2 killer world wide and that's water-borne diarrheal illnesses, mostly kids die but millions upon millions suffer. This problem is not so ... read more
blog entry posted Fri, November 24, 2006 - 1:53 PM permalink - 0 comments
Birmingham News (blog entry) The Birmingham News sent reporters to cover Civil Rights news in their fair city, but did not publish the photos. Left forgotton they were discovered and the paper published 30 of them along with a story based on interviews with the photographer... read more
blog entry posted Wed, March 1, 2006 - 9:18 PM permalink - 0 comments
Songs Are Sneaky Things (blog entry) The folk singer Pete Seeger observed:

"Songs won't save the planet, but then neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders."

Yesterday I was moved to read Vincent Harding talk about music in the freed... read more
blog entry posted Tue, February 28, 2006 - 12:01 AM permalink - 1 comment
Violent Memes (blog entry) Preston Brooks a Congressman from South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner at his desk because Preston thought he's impunged his family's honor. Sumner died a few months after the attack, but I don't ever remember seeing that Brooks was prosec... read more
blog entry posted Sun, February 26, 2006 - 10:22 PM permalink - 1 comment
Torchbearers (blog entry) I live near Pittsburgh and I'm really fond of the place. Something about this place is that it seems everyone is only separated by one degree if you're not already friends. Because of this closeness it's almost a habit when meeting someone new ... read more
blog entry posted Sat, February 25, 2006 - 10:39 PM permalink - 0 comments
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Invisible Children ( miscellaneous » movie reviews ) "Powerful DVD" Three young California filmmakers travel to Africa the day the Iraq invasion began. They intended a film about the Sudan but found their story in northern Uganda. An 18 year long war few of us have heard about. The film documents the tragedy of... read more
recommendation posted on Sat, February 26, 2005 - 6:38 PM
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