Economist Held a Mirror to Society - New York Times
“The Affluent Society” appeared in 1958, making Mr. Galbraith known around the world. In it, he depicted a consumer culture gone wild, rich in goods but poor in the social services that make for community. He argued that America had become so obsessed with overproducing [...]
Accessibility is an increasingly important issue for free and open source software (FOSS) developers and advocates. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for ensuring that software is accessible to people with disabilities. Governments around the world often require that software procured for public use must meet or exceed accessibility standards. Disabled users [...]
Neil Young Living with War
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I’ve uploaded The Fabulist in different formats (Word, PDF, Open Office 2), though I’m sure there’s work to be done on them. Endless work when you start this - you (or at least I) always miss some detail.
Anyway, it’s at The Fabulists, if you want to check it out.
A website with a similar [...]
Every day there are dozens of homeless people on the streets of Dublin, for whatever reason.
Have a look at the Resource Center for the Homeless in Austin, Texas, just to see what can be done if there’s the will.
Austin seems to be the place to go, and if ever the US lifts its iris scans [...]
I don’t think this was reported in mainstream media. Lots of glamourous photos.
Methinks I spied poet Glenda Cimino and TaraWatch activist Chris Murray, both looking grand.
The Unmanageables.
It’s taken me almost a year since I first mentioned it to my agent, Lisa, and publisher Antony Farrell, but at last I’ve got around to putting my first novel The Fabulists, online for free downloaded under a Creative Commons Licence (or License, if you are American).
Initially I’ve posted it in WordPress, one chapter [...]
As we feared, it’s happening. See this post from Howl @ the Moon to see why you should be scared. It isn’t as if this wasn’t forecast.
Please remember lads that these biometric passport thingies are digital, and anything digital can be hacked (I’ve linked a definition for yez if you’re confused, just in case). [...]
Read John Pilger in the New Statesman and weep. If anyone saw the Channel 4 “news” item mentioned below, I’d be grateful if you’d comment here.
In reclaiming the honour of our craft, not to mention the truth, we journalists at least need to understand the historic task to which we are assigned - that [...]
Had he lived till now, Samuel Beckett would be 100 today.
Happy Birthday, Mr Beckett, whether, to your surprise, you are in some conscious heaven, or you have merely rejoined the dispersed atoms of the universe.
Thank you for the humanity and wit you found in yourself and gave to us all.
