“
Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee | Open vs. closed: What kind of internet do we want? (via courtenaybird)
(Reblogged from courtenaybird)
maketakehavewant: The National Library, Minsk View high resolution

maketakehavewant:

The National Library, Minsk

(Source: ishtarious)

(Reblogged from tiff)

Yelping with Cormac: Cafe Gratitude

yelpingwithcormac:

Gourmet Ghetto - Berkeley, CA

Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM

Four stars.

The old man sat there reading the menu with sagely focus. It was the strangest menu he’d ever seen. A waitress festooned in face jewelry and wearing clownish rags appeared at his tableside. When he looked…

(Reblogged from yelpingwithcormac)
(Reblogged from smoothmove-deactivated20111023-)

Tax cuts for wealth while cutting social programs is class warfare. Let’s not allow people to misappropriate a valuable phrase.

powered by hate: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Most Suprisingly Feminist Game of the Year Contender

designislaw:

So my Tumblr has today been mostly arguing with idiots, and the feminism tag on twitter has been filled with a lot of garbage recently. I apologize, and I thought I’d offer something a little more positive. Something refreshing, just, something that honestly surprised me today. It was nice to…

(Reblogged from designislaw)
View high resolution

(Source: cesart)

(Reblogged from cesart)

Urbaniak: Oops

jamesurbaniak:

“In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and…

(Reblogged from jamesurbaniak)
“
So the various images of Americans stomping on Osama photos and jiggling their American-flag-clad potbellies in general jubilation at the assassination of a semi-fictional character whose vague presence at the periphery of the memoir that is America’s autobiography signified nothing so much as a thin bravado spread haphazardly like a mat of dry sticks over a deep pit of fear and self-loathing are about as tawdry and embarrassing as anything I have ever seen….
Who Is IOZ?: Carthago Delenda Jest

http://americancrackpot.blogspot.com/2011/02/mental-mazes.html

A bit late on this one, but good reading no less.