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Los Rios Kids
This past Saturday night. I had my camera set up in Los Rios when a group of kids came by ahead of their parents on the families’ evening walk. The kids all had frozen ice push-cicles, or something of the sort, and they begged me to take their picture. It was a quick set up and I used the on-camera flash to illuminate a group of kids with beautiful smiles.
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I've gotta be good and rested up for @MPAndCo tonight @Soliconcepts HOB-Acoustic Strip Show! Should be good local vegas music!
via Ping.fm
LGBT Adults Go Green, Believe in Global Warming, Know Children are Our Future
GREEN: Much to our surprise, LGBT Americans Think, Act, Vote More Green Than Others: even though gays aren’t allowed to adopt kids and they can’t have ‘em on accident (at least not with our preferred gender of mate) a new study shows that LGBTS are still way more concerned about the ozone layer than all ze breeders, which this Reuters article attributes to “a very high sense of community and cooperation that many LGBT citizens know first hand.” You know, like how we made the AIDS quilt together, and built huts for our hippie lesbian naked mating rituals and child-rearing at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival etc.
It’s a relatively small sample size and the statistical differences here aren’t all that significant either, but nevertheless — if they’re right about lezzies being so into the planet, this post will have lots of comments! (If it doesn’t, everyone reading this better go cool the global whatevs now)
Two-thirds (66%) of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender adults say that it is important to support environmental causes, compared with 56% of non-LGBT adults.
Three-quarters (75%) of LGBT adults (compared with 53% of heterosexuals) believe global warming is happening right now
39% of LGBT adults say they have seen or read Al Gore`s “An Inconvenient Truth” while only 20% of heterosexuals say they have seen or read it.
Althugh LGBT households are not parenting as frequently as heterosexuals, 51% say they are concerned about the planet we are leaving behind for future generations — compared to 42% of heterosexual adults.
22% of heterosexuals think “going green” is a marketing tactic but only 16% of LGBT adults agree.
So even though we can’t have kids, we sill want your kids to have trees to play in. That’s so gay! And by “gay” I mean “happy.”
via autostraddle.com
Sometime They Travel in Style
We tend to think of bus travel as uncomfortable and less useful than most everything else. And while it is true many who use the US bus network do so because they have no choice it isn't always true that buses are bad. Many are quite nice. If you travel thousands of miles a year to hudreds of places a bus is perhaps the best choice if you have a small group and lots of stuff. Take a look at this case in point. I reckon the band are quite comfy in there.
** Ken **
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Foursquare. Have you heard about it? Use it? I really like it, and it's featured in NYTimes.com
Foursquare is a combination of friend-finder, city guide and competitive bar game, Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello.
via nytimes.com
What's interesting is that for me the hook is 100% NOT 'lookup and hookup' oriented (as it is for some), but rather it's compelling to me as a crowdsourced catalogue of real-time 'local' consumer behavior, bounded with a game-ification element, and sweetened by the recognition system goodness of leaderboards.
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This Thursday check out @MPAndCo at the House of Blues-Acoustic Strip! Vegas local music
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Thanks Philadelphia Inquirer!
Many thanks to Molly Albertson for her article in the Philadephia Inquirer early this month. Please come visit us in Ecuador when you have a chance! Jeff Stern, Owner and Chocolatier, Aequare Fine Chocolates.
Circulate
A former student of mine, Sagarika Sundaram, proposed this piece of modular furniture created from recycled newspapers sometime back.
"Embrace the economic life by taking a seat on CIRCULATE. Use this block of newspaper as a stool in your kitchen, garage or party. Join four of them together to make a bigger table. This stylish piece of furniture is modular, use it in units to create furniture that suits your need anytime, anywhere."
Her original piece was made from 50 rupees worth of newspapers (50 Rupees = 1.25 USD/0.60 GBP/0.88 EUR). I'm thinking it would be interesting to see the various heights of stools created from 50 units of the national currency of various countries. And even more significant to consider the relative costs/value of recycling that paper back into the circulation chain of paper goods in respective countries – via both formal and informal channels.
