Uh Oh. I might have to stop working for a minute and watch this tonight:
Also on Thursday, the battle of the blowhards: Stephen Colbert will be a guest on “The O’Reilly Factor” (Fox, 8 p.m. EST) and, later, Bill O’Reilly shows up on “The Colbert Report” (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m. EST).
– The Fix | Salon Arts
Stephen Colbert’s fantasy comes to life… Second Life.
The illustrious Ethan Zuckerman of GlobalVoices.org is in my “speed geeking” group as we hear from 10 different online resources that can help bloggers and advocacy groups. Among his many talents, Ethan is a superb blogger and he’s noting all of this so check EthanZuckerman.com for his notes (in a few minutes).
Much to my chagrin, I am missing Chapel Hill’s kick-ass annual Martin Luther King day protest, but I have a good reason: I am attending a national “working meeting” on local political information on the Internet organized by the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center at Harvard Law School.
Last night we enjoyed dinner and a brief-but-illuminating talk by Dave Weinberger. I hope to get a chance to post more thoughts later, but meanwhile you can read other bloggers’ coverage via the tag BerkmanSunlight. (Why they held this meeting on a holiday – not to mention such an important one at the local community level – I do not understand.)
Now, back to paying attention!
As Brian said:
America is so lucky to have had a human like Dr. Martin Luther King born among us. His work reaches way into the future and teaches us still. I’m confident many many future generations will benefit from his work.
When I listen to his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence I want to cry. Not because of the horrors that he speaks against but because of the beauty of his soul. Dr. King was RIGHT! WAR IS WRONG!
Please read a transcript or listen to his Beyond Vietnam speech. It could so easily be said today and be called Beyond Iraq.
– Beyond Iraq: King is right! at Yesh.com
We best honor the man by remembering his words and actions so that we may continue the struggle that he brought to the forefront of the American psyche. Volunteer if you like, but King’s legacy is ACTION.
Read or listen here.
Oh my god, I have just discovered the St Andrews Face Transformer! Upload a picture of yourself and it approximates what you would look like with a different gender, race, or age!
Least impressive is me as an old woman:
Kinda interesting is me as a cavewoman:
But really amazing is me as a male. This pretty much looks exactly like my dad in college (except he didn’t wear chokers or glasses):
Now I’m looking around for an old picture of him for comparison…
Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mugshot from his arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, Alabama, 1956. (PRNewsFoto/Eastern State Penitentiary)
I was disgusted to learn that the web site martinlutherking-dot-org is an effort to discredit the man who tried to so hard to heal this nation’s sick, racist soul. Fortunately, bloggers are fighting back! To participate in this effort to Google bomb Dr. King back to reality just copy the text suggested here, and feel free to click on the informative links below as I do the same.
Thanks to Chris Lackey for posting Dr. King’s mugshot, and reminding us of the real, radical leader who was treated like a criminal by US government for protesting its racist policies. One of my favorites of his writing is the Letter from Birmingham Jail in which he explained to a group of well-meaning white religious leaders why we can’t wait. This is the man I will remember on Monday.
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Thanks to Greensboro blogger Sean Coon for the heads up about this.
Last meal at the original Pepper’s location. They’re moving to a bigger space down the block.
It’s time for the next big peace march in DC on January 27. With the Democrats now in power, it seems more important than ever to keep this issue on the front burner.
3,000 Americans dead and 22,000 wounded so far in Iraq. (NYTimes) How is it that coverage of this doesn’t even mention the (at least) 52,000 Iraqis killed? (Iraq Body Count) Grrr.
Anyway, my computer was the main jukebox for our annual new years beach trip, so my last.fm charts illustrate our soundtrack:
