Without the state

links for 2007-04-28

• A Village For the Elders - washingtonpost.com
  A group of Washington DC neighbors have formed a group called "Capitol Hill Elders" that is designed to set up a system for home maintenance and typical retirement home services for them as they grow old in their own homes.
  (tags: Community elders care retirement selfhelp)
• MyThings U.K. - Find out how much your valuables are worth and manage your collectibles
  With MyThings, you can * Keep an online record of all your valuable belongings * Track the value of your things
  (tags: Software socialmedia inventory valuation)
• Creative City Network / Toolkits
  The Cultural Planning Toolkit is a guide for the process of cultural planning in a community...The toolkit has been developed to encourage community leaders, planners and local government staff to explore the potential of cultural planning. In particular,
  (tags: consultation culture art Community Creativity)

Cultural Planning Toolkit

From the Creative City Network.

The Cultural Planning Toolkit is a guide for the process of cultural planning in a community. It includes an adaptable model and practical checklists for navigating and charting progress. Background material and additional details are provided on this companion website.

The toolkit has been developed to encourage community leaders, planners and local government staff to explore the potential of cultural planning. In particular, we hope to demonstrate how cultural resources can support the delivery of a spectrum of community priorities.

[via Developing News]

MyThings U.K.

Just as LibraryThing allows you to keep track of your books, so MyThings U.K. now allows you to keep an online record of your valuable belongings     and track their values. Stolen goods can be reported to a Trace service, said to be "the leading global registry of lost and stolen valuables used by police departments, auction houses, and second hand dealers."

"Modesty" buses?

"This really is about positive discrimination, in women's favour. Our religion says there should be no public contact between men and women, this modesty barrier must not be broken."

No - not Baghdad - Jerusalem

 

links for 2007-04-27

• Stumbling and Mumbling: Capitalism and character
  Whilst markets promote virtue, it is hierarchies that destroy it - for example, by encouraging a competition to climb up the greasy pole and do down others. Weren't the former Soviet bloc societies less virtuous than US society? For me, this is one attrac
  (tags: economics ethics history libertarianism left leftism markets hierarchy)

links for 2007-04-25

• The duty of inquiry
  He had acquired his belief not by honestly earning it in patient investigation, but by stifling his doubts. And although in the end he may have felt so sure about it that he could not think otherwise, yet inasmuch as he had knowingly and willingly worked
  (tags: philosophy ethics judgement belief)
• DIY Justice
  ...if the victims are all morally corrupt, then murder is not murder, or perhaps it is murder but the murderers are not guilty. Interesting jurisprudence.
  (tags: justice morality ethics murder religion)

Giving environmentalism a bad name...

Sheryl Crow calls for limit on loo paper.

Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment. Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required"

I think this is one of the more bizarre suggestions I have come across...

links for 2007-04-24

• Stumbling and Mumbling: Ideological state apparatuses
  Fabian Tassano and friends are rightly campaigning against educational conscription. They'll not thank me for this, but this is one area where libertarianism meets Marxism.
  (tags: ideology education state)
• Paint like Jackson Pollock
  (tags: webtools art arts Creativity digital fun games Pollock paint flash)
• wars revolutions plagues of frogs
  (tags: sciencefiction futures scenarios kenmacleod)

Guinness Marmite!

Guinness Marmite - one of my favourite tastes combined with one of my absolute no-nos.

[via Rebecca]

God Inc

[via Baroque in Hackney]