Lending Club It’s been around for a while, but Lending Club is still pretty fricken revolutionary. Instead of taking out a giant student loan, line of credit, or burning out your credit cards with the big, greedy old banks, consider…
Via Good Magazine Harvard spews out some of the most influential laissez faire economics in the country. One of its top economics professors, N. Gregory Mankiw, spreads these ideas to over 700 students a day. Wow. Nearly 1000 students are…
RT News Anonymous. A group of people around the world who are united by their desire to engage in civil disobedience with the intent to achieve positive change in the world. They uh, also try to stay anonymous. If you’re…
Good Magazine It’s about time the FBI updated its definition of rape. “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” The old one above has been floating around since 1929 and is so archaic, it completely discounts…
Are you watching the occupation of Wall Street right now? You should. I think it’ll be big. Maybe even Syria big. Thousands of people have committed to camping out in NYC (and around the world) for two months and standing…
Earlier this week, Lea and Emily from the EE Podcast (http://ee-podcast.com) interviewed us and a couple other crazy folks about our nomadic ways.
Sect Leader Guilty in Child Assault: CNNDon’t get your necktie in a knot, but I personally don’t find anything wrong with the concept of polygamy or polygyny. Except that it’s super messy and complicated in practice. I’d personally never do…
Scent Branding Sweeps the Fragrance Industry - BusinessWeekSo, there’s this thing called ambient fragrance. It’s a nose infiltrating mess meant to be released into public places to spruce up the joint (think Abercrombie & Fitch), all the while titillating your…
BBC News, Horn of Africa: 'A Vision of Hell'I can’t make sense of this. The entire horn of Africa is in a crisis-state of drought. It cannot get foreign aid because of outbreaks of conflict perpetrated by desperate terrorist groups.…
GOOD Magazine: How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSDThis article slapped me right in the face and right out of my feed-reading lull. I couldn’t look away. I couldn’t stop reading. Be warned: it’s not for the faint of heart.…
Canada - Facts on Trafficking and ProstitutionThis’ll shock the pants off you. Did you know human trafficking is an issue in Canada? Did you know that little boy or girl you thought was working some odd hours for a flower…
Nurse Reveals The Top 5 Regrets People Make on Their DeathbedStumbled upon this post after others linked to it on Facebook. It felt so true that I emailed it to my family and friends. Today it feels so honest that…
Courtesy to The National Archives UK on Flickr for this photo. Leading World Politicians Urge 'Paradigm Shift' on Drugs Policy | World News This is totally blowing my mind. In the very near future, we might actually end the War…
Impact: Design for Social Change : The ResourcesAre you a designer? Want to make a difference with your work? I present you with the six week workshop on Designing for Social Change at The School for Visual Arts in New…
The trailer of this film flung my guts into a tailspin. The trailer! Force a money-loving CEO to watch this film (Clockwork Orange style, eyelids peeled back) and I’m sure the stock market would pull up its socks and suddenly…
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Naomi Wolf provides a clear breakdown for the reasons that police forces operating in separate jurisdictions have banded together in a federal crackdown on the Occupy movement. You won’t like the answer, but the article provides some incredible insights.
Operation Maple I love to rant about the downfall of United States politics and economics. Don’t lie. You can’t wait to hear me rant. You nestle into your blanket and sigh with relief when a Rachel volcano explodes all over…
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant astrophysicist. He is a less-than-brilliant singer. Watch how a little lot of Auto-Tune can turn his even this voice into something nearly listenable.
Thorium. It was named after Thor because it’s strong, devilishly useful, and it brings a golden hammer down onto the head of the current energy crisis. Safe—as in no nuclear meltdown safe—nuclear energy might be closer than we think! Courtesy…
Corporations in the US are treated like people, how about treating people like corporations? Jon Stewart of the Daily Show brings you Amerifam. When you’re $100 000 in debt, unemployed, and completely disillusioned about your role in a democracy, there’s only…
The site could benefit from a redesign, but the idea of Raging Grannies who rail on about social justice is simply heart melting. After peaceful female protesters were maced by police officers in NYC two days ago, the Raging Grannies…
Aw, I just tossed my orange peel down the garburator. Who knew it could have been turned into gas for my scooter, or plastic for my juice bottle instead? I like fruit garbage. It’s functional.
I’m really interested to follow this Climate Reality project by Al Gore simply because I want to see what evidence will be used to show the impact of climate change and what opponents will say in response. Climate change is…
A comparison between the response to tragedy during 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.
I can’t wait to pop some schweddy balls into my mouth. I wonder if Ben & Jerry have maintained that velvety texture.
Young? Broke? Check out Good Magazine’s guide to hustlin’ in the cheaper, more diverse cities of the US. If we weren’t in Vancouver, we’d be in Austin, New Orleans, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York… you get the picture.
What if our brand names were linked to factories filled with young women who were being groped to work faster? Women tortured and raped and paid 61 cents an hour to make our underwear? I’d say, time to do a…
Is this any kind of surprise at all?
Imagine how many times the waves pounded over the glass shards to round their sharp corners. I wonder if that’s all that will be left of us one day. Just glassy-eyed pebbles on a beach somewhere. Oh, Rachel, don’t be…
“There are over 30 million slaves in the world today, more than at any other point in history.” I had to read this twice. This just doesn’t make sense and I don’t know how to fix it.
Ethics. The thing that keeps us from doing horrible things to each other because it just ain’t right. What if we were to do away with them for a little while? Oh, say long enough to conduct these seven crazy…
Networking is important. Recommendations please.
Yes. Yes it is. (found via @nomadizm)
So I was just about to go to bed and decided to check the Twtters one last time for the night and saw this tweet from Jeff. Thanks to that, I am stuck in front of my screen reading and…
We LOVE this show. Season Four aired three days ago. You gotta check it out. Ya just gotta. Teacher, gone drug dealer, gone ruthless (yet just) killer.
Now you can see exactly how much of a thoughful jerk you are. Or aren’t. The good guide lists ethical products according to their impact on your health, the environment, and society. The database could use some TLC, but overall…
Are you bored? Post this article so your boss can see it. He might give you a promotion. Or fire your ass.
I wrote a post! It’s about content and being a jackass.
Who doesn’t love a good lip lock or ten? I’ve certainly made some commentary on this topic before. Good Magazine discusses the quirks and kicks of lip smacking in an informative video. The only thing I disagree with? Armageddon is…
Oh yeah, so we showed up in Vancouver and then THIS happened. Most of the action was about three blocks from where we are staying this week. Photo courtesy Huffington Post. See the smoke? That’s a burning car. Our condo…
To all the parents out there who just need a couple hours of rest, comes a children’s book sensitive to the plight of tired mommies and daddies everywhere. It’s called, “Go The Fuck To Sleep” by Adam Mansbach. It’s a…
If you’re black or hispanic in US, you stand a serious chance of being impoverished, unhealthy, and being given little educational support. It’s not great news. I want good news.
This is crazy. A guy walks into a grocery store… Have you heard this one? He buys everything the store has and then sells it as part of a gallery installation to prevent a local shop owner from going out…
For your viewing pleasure. Why would you do this to yourself?
Remember those days when you were a kid (this is before video games or smart phones) when you could literally spend hours lost in your own head? You could play in the dirt or with blocks of wood, and lose…
Looks like avoiding the chip aisle won’t be the biggest problem you’ll have on your hands this week.
Unless we make some big changes, we’re about to be gouged by the major telecom companies with regard to our internet. Our lovely PM Harper made no statements or recommendations about the future of our internet, so my suspicions tell…
Bring on the rapture, baby.
What’s in a name? Well, lots of chemicals that either make you better or make you worse, depending on what you call them and what you’re prescribed. Good’s article discusses the name game that results in our favourite prescriptions becoming…
There are only a few women I know who can make me laugh out loud. Dooce is one of them. An ex-Mormon, a fiendish mom, a devilishly smart writer, Dooce lets you have it. Whether you want it or not.…
How do you capture the failure of democracy? Oh yeah. By re-electing a Conservative government for 2011 who was in contempt of parliament and has the personality of a wet noodle. So disappointed. I cannot even tell you.
I got me a new job. I am now sleeping with a company owner (Louder Than Ten) and a designer (at nGenworks). And it’s perfectly legal. It’s the same person. Geez, I’m not a harlot.
Now I know what radioactive wasabi looks like.
Good Magazine author, Ben Jervey didn’t turn the lights off for Earth Hour yesterday. He must be crazy! Everyone knows that turning the lights off for an hour rallies an unshakeable fortitude of support for environmental progress through accountability. Or…
So let me get this straight. First we were told that 1000 screenings in a backscatter machine amount to less radiation than a standard chest xray. Now we’re being told that, whoops, officials misread the report and radiation levels are…
Weird, I was just making an excuse to go back to bed when I read this. What’s getting in your way today?
If you don’t like music, don’t read this. If you do, here’s one more reason to come visit, hell come live in Austin. These bands are face meltingly awesome.
I made a mix tape!! It probably resonates a little differently than my Phantom of The Opera remix I made when I was 9. Hopefully that doesn’t mar my natural evolution of taste. Please enjoy responsibly. And thanks for coordinating,…
The population of Wyoming? This is just plain nuts. Random sampling, my ass.
Trekking through the Costa Rican jungle got me thinking about parasites. Not that there’s any relation. Behold the Guinea worm. You drink it down and like magic, it pops its ropy head out of a blister on your leg a…
There are still over 100 uncontacted tribes throughout the world, many of them in the Amazon. The irony is that in order to protect them, we need to expose their identities to the government of the countries they inhabit through…
I wrote a blog post over at nGen Works today! Enjoy!
Access trumps ownership, because access denotes utility and ownership means maintenance. A wonderful piece from Frank Chimero on curating life. Of course, we agree whole heartedly.
Umm, if I didn’t already have a pet, I might totally Facebook stalk this Allie girl and ask her to make sweet bread with me (that’s code for intertwined penmanship love). Her writing is so funny it makes me feel…
My favourite comic creator has done it again. Lavatory? What the eff?
The next time you’re thinking of shedding your woes like a skin upon the beaches of a tropical country: Think. What are you willing to do for a taste of freedom? Hilarious article.
What mistakes are you going to make tomorrow?
The FCC is proposing new regulations that could jeopardize Net Neutrality in the United States by allowing online discrimination by the major telecoms. This is probably one of the most important issues of the information age… but it can be…
Leo’s got a point, people. This Christmas thing sure does get out of hand. Last year we did gift free Christmas because we lived in a motorhome. This year we’re trying it again, with our families. So far, it’s been…