Dove’s ad is so brilliant they get bloggers to distribute it for free, it’s that good.
(h/t Melissa McEwan @ Shakesville, who has some reservations however.)
Personally, I prefer Dr. Bronner’s soap.
Dove’s ad is so brilliant they get bloggers to distribute it for free, it’s that good.
(h/t Melissa McEwan @ Shakesville, who has some reservations however.)
Personally, I prefer Dr. Bronner’s soap.
This stupidest ad ever, via thehim.
Okay, I’m sorry if that seems harsh… But really?
Update: Thehim has data suggesting that there may be a real gender gap.
Update 2: Oh, what the heck.
Amnesty International can do more good in Darfur than the Bush administration.
Sure they do, and everyone should know about it.
No consideration was offered or received for the showing of this or any advertisement on Cannablog.
WASHINGTON – Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday.
Source: McClatchy.
1. I began this post intending to write about broadcast reform, but got sidetracked. The public airwaves belong to the public, they are not the private property of licensees to spectrum. We the public own the spectrum in common and for our benefit, not for private profit unless that is consistent with our own public interest. I will come back to this in a future post but welcome general discussion in the comments.
2. It happens that America has come to believe in an economic theory of competition, a capitalist Darwinian survival of the fittest. Shamefully, we treat people as human capital, as resources to be exploited and consumers to be sold, and not as independent members of the public whose object the government is meant to serve. But we do not have a government of, for and by the people today. We have a government of, for and by the rich and powerful.
3. We do not need to compete in everything, we can cooperate instead. We can help one another with our ideas and our efforts to achieve a common purpose. This is not communism, this is just community.
Free software has taught me to be generous with my own talents, and to be able to use the commons at will means we are assured of our freedom and independence, because we cannot be held hostage to the proprietary limitations of the rent seekers.
4. I’m going to be posting another version of the Chromosphere in a day or so, maybe later tonight if I’m inspired enough. This project is really a life’s work for me, even though it is only a bare skeleton of the idea currently sketched out and on display. This is a new way of communicating, a living language. It is an old way of communicating, too. Perhaps we are all having conversations around one another and not understanding.
In the meantime, please do check it out if you can spare ten minutes, and if you feel like tossing me a dime or buying me lunch sometime you can use Paypal from there. I prefer not to ask donations here at Cannablog, because I don’t ever want to have my politics or my religion or any of my beliefs a matter of monetary gain. But if you like my work and want to support free software, art and music, I sure appreciate it.
Update: version1 has been released.