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Twit Twat

1 week, 6 days ago

It seems, for now, I'm not so good at keeping this blog up to date. Perhaps twitter suits better my attention span... I'll put a feed here when i find time, for now, have a look at this page

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Songs before Sunrise

2 years, 8 months ago

My stream of unconsciousness:

2009-06-19 | Dinosaurs are in your legos!
2009-06-18 | Simon Willison: Investigate your MP's expenses

Investigate your MP’s expenses. Launched today, this is the project that has been keeping me ultra-busy for the past week—we’re crowdsourcing the analysis of the 700,000+ scanned MP expenses documents released this morning. It’s the Guardian’s first live Django-powered application, and also the first time we’ve hosted something on EC2.

2009-06-17 | Extraordinary scenes: Robert Fisk in Iran
 The long-standing Middle East correspondent for The Independent, Robert Fisk, is defying the government crackdown on foreign media reporting in Iran.
2009-06-13 | 2009-06-14 The great disruption
 Paul Gilding has been an activist for sustainability for 35 years, working for NGOs, business and government. He explains why physics and biology have determined that our current model for economic growth is finished, and how the human race will face its biggest challenge ever.
2009-06-03 | Johan Thelin: Remember
 As China blocks, let's remember.

Democracy is not chaos, it is wealth. Wealth to the soul as well as to the body and society. Churchill put it nicely into words: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

For all of us enjoying the luxury of being able to speak, organize, move and express ourselves freely, I have a small poem by Martin Niemöller (cannot find the name of the author, comment if you know it).

In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.


Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.


Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.


Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.


Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.