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November 3rd, 2009
05:22 am - the cashless man
'I'm not for a moment suggesting we should all go money-less tomorrow. It's about transition. All I am trying to say is that I believe money is like oil: if we are going to use it, let's at least use it to build sustainable infrastructure for the future, and not meaningless tat. And I just wanted to show that you can live a really happy, healthy life without so much money or stuff. That's all. I also want to encourage people to reconnect with what we consume and make more sustainable choices. Paul McCartney once said: "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we'd all be vegetarians". Well, if people could see the state of war-torn Iraq, we'd all be cyclists. If you can, try to reduce consumption to as much as your specific situation allows you to.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/nov/02/cashless-man-responds
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September 13th, 2009
August 25th, 2009
11:46 pm - caring and sharing
Yesterday: A couple in matching newbie T-shirts, both armed to the teeth with DSLRs, who spent at least half an hour taking about 9809892374 gigabytes' worth of multiple shots each, probably having multiple joygasms too, less than a metre away from the mothers with new babies. Using flash. The behaviour of some people is just incomprehensible.
Today: Another winning pair who had lots of DSLR pictures to take of each other, their food and the restaurant, but nothing to say to each other at dinner.
Oh, and a fat man who emptied a bag of keropok on the ground in front of the monkeys, his children ecstatic at daddy's cleverness.
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August 21st, 2009
02:59 pm
'No nation — even if it is our bitterest enemy — is incomprehensible. Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from us behave according to systems of logic, and that these systems can be grasped if we approach them with the sort of patience and respect that Dr. Soetoro practiced in her work.
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that “the aim of anthropology is the enlargement of the universe of human discourse.”'
Michael R. Dove on Obama's mother, NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/opinion/11dove.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
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August 12th, 2009
10:44 pm - Internships
'The rise of unpaid internships gets the blast it deserves. It's free labour slavery for the young who can afford to do it and yet denies access to all without parents to support them. All kinds of professions gladly take in bright graduates for free, so their CVs shine with experience their less fortunate contemporaries lack. It should be banned under employment law: instead the recommendation here is for a code of practice with a Kitemark, requiring wages and grants.'
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/20/social-mobility-inequality-milburn
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