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I can easily imagine this as a model for a personal radio station, a high school radio station, a community radio. Turn on the power!

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Really interesting painting

Ah, my favorite curmudgeon, Wendell Berry stands so tall in the traces. Read on, unbelievers, and believe.

Orion > Orion Magazine > November | December 2004 > Wendell Berry
The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve.

Look carefully, if you doubt me, at the centers of the larger towns in virtually every part of our country. You will find that they are economically dead or dying. Good buildings that used to house needful, useful, locally owned small businesses of all kinds are now empty or have evolved into junk stores or antique shops. But look at the houses, the churches, the commercial buildings, the courthouse, and you will see that more often than not they are comely and well made. And then go look at the corporate outskirts: the chain stores, the fast-food joints, the food-and-fuel stores that no longer can be called service stations, the motels. Try to find something comely or well made there.

Another small piece loosely joined. Instiki, another piece of Web 2.0.

Instiki

Juan Cole savages Bush speech. Read for a textbook intellectual tour de force flaying of a carcass so richly deserving of it.

Informed Comment
Mr. Bush, I don’t recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. And I am very, very worried that you will allow to happen to the Oil Gulf what you allowed to happen to New Orleans. After watching you for five years I have become convinced that you don’t have the slightest idea what you are doing in Iraq, that you are just reacting and playing it by ear. You can’t do that, George. This Iraq thing is extremely complex. It needs serious, concerted thought by high-powered people, not just your cronies and yes-men and ideologues of various stripes (from Right to far-Right).

Avast, matey. Arrrr, mind the parrot.