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This time next week

... this is what I'll be doing.

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Carbon emissions in the Arab Middle East (infographic)

Quite nicely done. Good to see this initiative.

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Carboun is an advocacy initiative promoting sustainability and environmental protection in the Middle East. It aims to increase awareness of the importance of environmentally responsive design and development as a major tool in reducing the environmental impact of development on energy and resource use.

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Nicely done

Big Sky

There's nothing like the desert.

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Free as a bird - over Wadi Rum, Jordan
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Watching Later With Jools Holland on Tivo, from 2009. The Specials! Carol King! They sound great. They all got old. Which means we got old, too.

So long, Saleh/sling yer ‘ook/insert your own caption #Yemen #YF

A nice cartoon from Carlos Latuff.

Best animated gif ever?

This gif appeared on a post on the always interesting Dangerous Minds blog, without attribution (so far - a couple of us asked in the comments section). The post is about a fake eHarmony video by someone pretending to really, really, really love cats. It's amusing enough, I guess, as fake videos go. But the gif is just perfect.

Antidote to nationalism

I know there is no antidote, really - nationalism is too useful for state elites everywhere to keep the rest of us in line. But still, there ought to be one. This might help a bit.

Contemporary illiteracies

I will develop this further, I think. See also the discussion on @LisaMLane's blog about citations here: http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=926

Comments welcome.

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RT @divbyzero: Literally Unbelievable: People who think The Onion is real http://is.gd/91kzHw >been reflecting on this. Decontextualization.
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(cont.) Much of the information we get online these days is stripped of context. We follow a link from Twitter or elsewhere. Disorienting.
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(cont.) We get text without context, becoming thereby more prone to misinterpretation. Believing Onion stories shared on #FB tip of iceberg.
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