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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87

Support Haiti http://bit.ly/bpKMtd via Partners in Health #

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A Peruvian peacekeeper screams as he tries to control a crowd during food distribution for earthquake survivors at a warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
If like me you somtimes question the integrity of some humanitarian organizations, you are ensure of how your donation will benefit those most in need, […]

 E-40

[…] “it becomes obvious that the iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone, but rather that the iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad. The iPad is what they’ve been building toward all along.”
via daring fireball

NuFormer Digital Mediaplus

superb and sweet cover of Leonard Cohen
by Elizabeth and the Cstapults

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are […]

“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.”
-J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

by Garry Kasparov
“This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every year we have new chess programs, […]

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London
thanks eva
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Hamas children program which to the west media sounds like a contradiction in terms,
this program mold hate of the israelites, don’t our children program indoctrinate fear of the other, and the values of fierce capitalism. We should not play with education and young minds for we do not control the extent and reach of the […]

Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek TNG speaks about all of THIS.

“I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
 - Ghandhi

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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91

Letter from Mark Twain: You, sir, are the scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link" #
I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. -Thomas Paine, 1796 #

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“it’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe people are really good at heart.”
- Anne Frank, in her diary, 1944