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Homeopathic leak threatens catastrophe | NewsBiscuit
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/09/homeopathic-leak-threatens-catastrophe/
According to homeopathic lore, a potion becomes more potent as it’s diluted further. That makes tossing it down the sink like the ultimate act of evil, doesn’t it?
The internet is our social network. | Friendika
Up to a billion people interact with each other every day across millions of websites and communications services. Blogs, email, forums, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Diaspora, Identi.ca, Drupal and more… These can each be used as a limited type of “social network”.
This is really interesting. I’ve written and talked about this issue for a few years now… essentially the hoarding of people and connections, which only benefits those sites (and causes heaps of trouble when they shut down). Really people just want to communicate – so using the APIs at each of the “network hoarders” makes sense. It’s still a pity the hoarders don’t do this themselves, but heck otherwise they wouldn’t be hoarders and their reason for being hoarders is that they have borked business models (I’m being kind there: some have no business model at all).
Video art with rolls of sticky tape
Fabulous artwork – in a way it’s a pity he shows the “how” at the start! And my goodness he must have a lot of mess/waste afterwards…
Wheelchair-user Bushwalker Continues with a bit of Help – The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/in-adversity-bushwalkers-now-a-highroller-20110910-1k39i.html
(the original headline is just sad, isn’t it “bushwalker now a high-roller”… newspaper layout editors and wordpuns… ugh)
I think it’s awesome that someone who loved bushwalking (hiking), then got MS, found a way to keep going out there -with his family and others- with a bit of help.