It is gorgeous here today.
The kind of weather that smothers the idea of getting any work done. Meanwhile, on the wayback from the kitchen, I considered buying two or three boxes of tangerines and decorating my apartment with them.meta
John Raulston Saul
"Let me put this argument a different way. So long as an NGO -- which could also be defined as a corporation of social reformers -- remains outside the democratic system, it has no real political levers. Its activists are not there, in the people's chamber, to clarify the cause. And there is no practical link between the problem they are devoted to -- no matter how obvious the problem -- and the real action required to deal with it. PR victories -- which NGOs so often win -- cannot be converted automatically into law. Nor should they be. Again, we live in democracies. But the result is that there are no direct practical links between the public debate and government action. The public therefore becomes discouraged about the effectiveness of politics because politics appear to be unresponsive to the public debate. And because of their disconnection from the formal political process, the corporations of social reformers themselves begin to look naive. All of this results in what René-Daniel Dubois calls "la perte d'une culture partagée" -- a fractured culture or a fractured society."meta
Web Review : Flash and QuickTime Integration
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Maybe I've just gotten a little too much sun today
but can someone explain what grounds Internet filtering companies have for copyrighting the list of sites they block?meta
Apparently this is a sign in botany for plants with life cycles of many years, which are not bush-like. but I just keep seeing a telephone pole and sickle.