People take photos

These two posts were both upvoted pretty high on reddit. As we know, the US and Britain both have crazy over-the-top “see something, say something” type public transport and public awareness campaigns. Fortunately the British also have a knack for writing style and presentation that makes them hilarious in general. So we get public service announcements like this:

Hey! This is serious.

Of course, sometimes you have wise-guys (wise-chaps?) who don’t love freedom and make stuff like this:

Report Fascism

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Rethinking wholesomeornothing

So after a very very long hiatus, I’m back into writing (not to mention back into Boston and back into some semblance of orderizing in my life). I’ve decided that while my own commentary on things might just accidentally be interesting, another aspect of my online presence is probably for more consistently compelling: I read an unusual number of online articles about a broad range of things.
I think this blog will become a frequently updated catalogue of: the cool, the strange, the funny–but more importantly a reservoir of social justice issues, appropriate technology solutions, community empowerment projects, political conversations/alternative media, and so forth…

I rely heavily on reddit.com and digg.com (news aggregators where users rank user-submitted content in a simple list). I also just realized that I am on 3 or 4 fairly eminent email lists where each day brings a variety of new academic and other discussions from experts in technology, Islam, society, video, art, interaction, design, and legos (no, seriously).

So for now, I’m just your friendly neighborhood facilitator.