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WordPressのテーマ テンプレート プラグイン カスタマイズ情報サイト | mono-lab -
caaaw nice templates ;)
Your beautiful eyes on the Behance Network
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In case Family First are getting you down - great piece of art from my friend Deborah Kelly (that’s her in the foreground)
In the dispiriting run up to the election, our disgust with border paranoia and the whole miserable ‘debate’ is all we have to show.
A work by the Boat People
Flag Heads off Sydney harbour (bySteffyc)
via 1.bp.blogspot.com Awesome!
“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. But I got stuck on explaining why we don’t fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn’t explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I’d tell them how we reproduce, how long we’ve been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.” — Kurt Vonnegut (via thechocolatebrigade) (via acatinatree)
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Facebook | 350.org’s Photos - Elephants
everyone loves elephants. especially recycled ones!
It’s with a heavy heart that i board my flight to Melbourne soon .. .the $300 difference between the train and the flight option ($540 by overnight train vs $180 economy flight + taxis) plus the fact i need to be 2 hours east of melb by 9 am mean i must fly for the first time in over a year. The fact is the terrible state of train travel in this country means i must spew large volumes of carbon out into the atmosphere to get to a sustainability leadership retreat. The irony doesn’t escape me.
Sigh, anyway a great article below on the soullessness of flight vs other forms of transport .. i couldn’t agree more .. i really do like the feeling of taking the train down despite the cost and lack of basic services (no wifi/power), sharing with strangers and impossibility of a good nights sleep (ok i dont like it THAT much!) …
This quote from the article linked sums up my feelings nicely … “Airplanes are a means of ignoring the spaces in between your point of origin and your destination. By contrast, a surface journey allows you to look out on those spaces, at eye level and on a human scale…”
Thanks to the Volcano, An Escape From the Jet Age - NYTimes.com
