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So this Vegan activist lectured in my sociology class today. He was an intense speaker, but not to the point where I totally disregarded him as insane.
Here’s his website: http://adaptt.org/
More coverage from NPR, asking protestors in Manhattan, will these protests become a movement? http://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/141033126/wall-street-protesters-gain-momentum
NPR is finally covering occupy Wall Street: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141019162/wall-street-protests-spread-to-other-cities
Denmark introduces a fat tax, check it~
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“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” -Gandalf
When I read this I was surprised. Maybe I shouldn’t have been, because literature must have this sort of relevant connection to real life, even if it is set in a place very far away, like Middle Earth.
I finally got my own Pandora account. I was using Williams without realizing it for the past few weeks… Sorry for burning up your Pandora time.
Anyways. Pandora presented me with this message, which was horrifying:
“Hi Colin. Pandora is using Facebook to personalize your experience.”
I know I used the same email address, but now it knows which of my friends likes whatever song pops up and. It is uncomfortable, I don’t know what Pandora knows about me. I recently stripped my facebook of information. Does Pandora know everything I ever had on Facebook? I know they say that once it’s posted on the internet it can’t be taken down… The power of Facebook has been making me feel uncomfortable lately.
I experience the best streams of thought while I’m walking back to my apartment. This can be a 10 minute walk depending where I’m coming from. Going somewhere, and having a clear idea what my destination is, is thrilling. Not even being where I’m going is truly as fulfilling as the experience of arriving.
I think the act of traveling, or even walking from one place to another, is very conducive to active thinking, unlike the dull deadbeat experienced in a chair, at a computer. Maybe it’s just me, but I doubt it.