Living the Liminal

Found this great quote on The Free Liberal website:
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not
believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the
teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find
to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all
beings — that doctrine believe [...]

The rumor is that they only send out this survey to those they know–or at least suspect–will answer it in exactly the way that they want it answered. I think it is fair to let as many people know about the survey so that their “results” will reflect as many viewpoints as possible. Please follow [...]

Feministing posts about a Georgia High School and this year being the first desegregated prom. Yes, this year. Link
Alternet has a story about how the Bush Administration is working to privatize our water supplies. Great, a requirement of life in the hands of multi-national corporations, what a great idea that is. Link
Contrary to crazy-leftist-pinko-commie-traitor rhetoric, [...]

Check it out:
Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner
that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan
unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while
locking in special privileges for bigger media companies.
Mother Jones covers the story here.
After almost a year of hearings, last month the Bush-appointed US
Postal Service Board [...]

The UK Times Online has this story:
“Catapult boy is eaten after taunting crocodile in pen”
This just has to be up for a Darwin Award and is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard of someone doing who is not drunk (the kid was 9 so I’m making an assumption) or on drugs:
A schoolboy who climbed [...]

Back in the mid-80s, Howard Jones was a favorite of mine. Somehow his earnest, New Wave, synth-pop tunes connected to the romantic/idealist that was the teenaged LtL. In particular his albums “Human’s Lib” (Howard Jones) and “Dream Into Action” (Howard Jones). His songs definitely feel dated, almost silly at time, but songs like “Elegy” and [...]

LtL has been given 3 Joost invites. Let me know if you are interested in checking out this new Internet TV service out and I’ll send you one. So far I’ve watched a couple of the Comedy Central shows and, while the quality seems pretty good, I’ve had the shows just stop in the middle [...]

I just had a rather long and quite good post about the movie Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.
It was lost when Ecto crashed and took the whole post down with it, despite the fact that I have the “save drafts automatically” selection checked off in the settings.

I certainly don’t have the energy to do [...]

I wanted to try out the soundtrack function on Garageband so I grabbed a very low quality video I had taken with my Vivicam 3765. This is also an excuse for me to figure out how to post a Quicktime movie.
Yes, it’s of the cat.
I promise, unless there are extreme circumstances, I will not post [...]

Thanks to Neil Gaiman for posting this on his blog. While this YouTube video is pretty good quality, I would also suggest you check out Marcondes’ website for a greater quality version as well as other short films. I had never heard of him before today, but hope to see much more of his incredible [...]