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Linkin Park: Risk something, take back what's yours, Say something that you know they might attack you for

I continue to draw hope for so many of the protest songs that are part of our culture right now - Hands Held High is as close to a protest "hymn" as I can imagine a pop band could ever write:

My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show

My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine

On the back, he hand wrote a quote inside
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die"

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
Both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

Top ten reasons why the emerger didn’t cross the road? ~ C Michael Patton ~

image from baboon™

inspired by  a brilliantly funny post from Kruse Kronicle about why the emerging chicken did cross the road, here is c. michael patton came up with

10. Because he did not want to be labeled.

9. Because he was not absolutely certain that he could cross since in order to get to the other side, you would have to go half way, and in order to go half way, you would have to go half way to the half way, and in order to go half way to the half way, you would have to go half way, ad infinitum.

8. Because it was not a labyrinth shaped road.

7. Because only arrogant people cross roads.

6. The liquor store was on his side. ( :) Come on, lighten up!)

go see the top 5

eMarketer: The Blogosphere ~ A Mass Movement from Grass Roots

from a recent report The Blogosphere:

Once a haven for techies, there are now blogs for everything from celebrity gossip to political commentary to the most mundane personal minutiae. By 2012, more than 145 million people—or 67% of the US Internet population—will be reading blogs at least once per month.            

The number of people creating blogs in the US will also grow, reaching 34.7 million people by 2012—16% of the Internet population. By contrast, there were some 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007, a number that correlates to 12% of Internet users.

Buoyed by these massive levels of consumer engagement, US blog advertising will reach $746 million in 2012, up from $283 million in 2007.

 

5 rules- what is your object? What are your verbs? How can people share the objects? What is the gift in invite? Are you charging for it?

said by ?, twittered by terry storch at Google I/O

another genius insight from jessica hagy

jessica hagy
 

In the midst of a disjointed Memorial Day weekend, I was able to catch 3 movies:

• What Happens in Vegas... - which I was dreading, but was better than I dreaded
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - which I was looking forward to, but which felt like paint-by-numbers for 75%, then just odd for 25%
• Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - which I had forgotten about, but which really grabbed me

Caspian is a war movie, a story of battles that are violent and fatal.  In terms of timeframe, the movie transpires one year after the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in our world and 1300 years later in Narnia. In terms of plot, it takes place as the persecuted Narnian diaspora has been driven deep into the woods, and allegedly to the brink of extinction, by usurper Telmarine King Miraz.

It is a story about values like chivalry, love, honesty, integrity, goodness, loyalty and love. And it is fable about hope, the kind of hope that you must believe to see, the kind of hope that truly makes no sense. 

Th movie contained an unexpected gift, with Regina Spektor singing the song The Call over the ending credits.

“It is not impossible to make mainstream films which are really good. Costa-Gavras once said that accidents can happen.”

Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

 

Lau Nau: Painovoimaa, valoa

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