tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91197015902854501892024-03-05T18:37:37.774-05:00Seeking In The ZeitgeistIndianapolis based blog about Quaker Activism, progressive thought, human rights, life, movies, books, science and science fiction.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.comBlogger561125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-6996499669383123592012-05-09T15:02:00.002-04:002012-05-09T15:02:42.723-04:00Thank You Senator Lugar<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Dick_Lugar_official_photo_2010.JPG/220px-Dick_Lugar_official_photo_2010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Dick_Lugar_official_photo_2010.JPG/220px-Dick_Lugar_official_photo_2010.JPG" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f2e3; color: #414141; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;">What did ancient Rome look like in A.D. 320? </span><a href="http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/about.php" style="background-color: #f6f2e3; color: #366884; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: -webkit-left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rome Reborn</a><span style="background-color: #f6f2e3; color: #414141; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> is an international initiative to answer this question and create a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built. The result is a truly stunning bird’s-eye and ground view of ancient Rome .</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-70445848286214467522012-03-04T15:40:00.000-05:002012-03-04T15:42:37.016-05:00Winter Is Coming -- April 1st<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVkr9oYsIbo&feature=player_embedded#!"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="325" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VVkr9oYsIbo" width="580"></iframe></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-56577051177983454132012-03-02T15:25:00.000-05:002012-03-04T15:48:09.667-05:00Limbaugh's Ugly Words and Hitting Him Where it Hurts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Update II</b></i>: As of Sunday, March 4, 2012 -- <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, and ProFlowers have pulled ads from the program.</span> In spite of his faux-poligy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Lawless">Lucy Lawless</a> and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic. The group is trying to prevent the ship, which is chartered by Shell oil company, from leaving port to drill five exploratory wells in the Arctic. The ship was due to leave port this weekend.
From atop a 174-foot (53 meter) derrick aboard Shell Oil's Noble Discoverer in New Zealand's Port Taranaki. Lawless said she was taking direct protest action for the first time in her life to protest oil drilling and to draw attention to climate change. "I've got three kids. My sole biological reason for being on this planet is to ensure that they can flourish, and they can't do that in a filthy, degraded environment," she said.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I’m taking direct action with GreenpeaceNZ in peaceful protest against Shell’s Arctic oil drilling <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523savethearctic">#savethearctic</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/37250451">Indianapolis - A Video Tour Of The City</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1753804">visitIndy</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
http://visitindy.com - Indianapolis is still raising the game, even after the Super Bowl. Take a tour around Indianapolis and get a look at what this thriving city has to offer visitors. Check out great views of downtown Indianapolis, Mass Ave, White River State Park, Monument Circle and other great spots in Indy. Featuring the music of Red Light Driver, "Celeste Celeste".<br />
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I <i><b>love</b></i> this city.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-42503122855265979052012-02-22T13:37:00.001-05:002012-03-02T13:20:12.207-05:00The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout -- A Review<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77602.The_Doorbell_Rang" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900304m/77602.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77602.The_Doorbell_Rang">The Doorbell Rang</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41112.Rex_Stout">Rex Stout</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/author.htm" target="_blank">Rex Stout</a> was born in Noblesville, IN and grew up in Kansas. Though never active himself, he was raised by Quaker parents. He was a brilliant child - he read by the time he was four and won a state spelling Bee when he was 13. He must have been somewhat influenced by his families' Quaker activism: He served on the original board of the American Civil Liberties Union and helped start the magazine The New Masses. At the time of the Depression, he was an enthusiastic supporter of the New Deal. During World War II, he worked with the advocacy group, Friends of Democracy. The group was the forerunner of today’s watchdog organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that track hate groups. When the paranoid anti-Communist era of the late 1940s and 1950s began, Stout ignored a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee at the height of the McCarthy era witch-hunts. Though active in causes on the left, Stout was rabidly anti-communist and the irony of his subpoena is that he probably would have supported McCarthy's goal of finding "Commies" in the US Government, if it had actually been about that.
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In <i>The Doorbell Rang</i>, Nero Wolfe is hired to force the FBI to stop wiretapping, tailing and otherwise harassing a woman who gave away 10,000 copies of a book that is critical of the Bureau and its director, J. Edgar Hoover. <br />
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Researching his book <i>Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors </i>(1988), journalist Herbert Mitgang discovered that Stout had been under FBI surveillance since the beginning of his writing career, but after <i>The Doorbell Rang</i>, got the full spotlight of the FBI. About a third of Stout's FBI file is devoted to this book. In its 1976 report, the Church Committee found that <i>The Doorbell Rang</i> is ths reason that Rex Stout's name was one of 332 placed on the FBI's "not to contact list," which it cited as evidence of the FBI's political abuse of intelligence information.
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It's not a great mystery but it is passionately written, and is now part of the history of that era.
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">In 1979 Trevor Nunn, then artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, created a TV workshop on the art and technique of acting in Shakespeare's plays. He was joined by RSC co-founder and Associate Director John Barton and a group of the leading RSC actors of the day. There were 9 programs that aired from 1979 - 1984.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">Among the actors participating in <i>PLAYING SHAKESPEARE</i> were: Ian McKellen (Gandolf/Magneto), Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard/Prof. X), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi/Schindler's List), Judi Dench (M from the Bond films/As Time Goes By), David Suchet (Hercule Poirot) and Peggy Ashcroft.</span><br />
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And here is <i>Fry & Laurie</i>'s parody of <i>PLAYING SHAKESPEARE</i>. It's a sketch about a Shakespeare masterclass ("an actor prepares"), where a teacher (Stephen Fry) with delusions of grandeur gives pretentious, nonsensical acting advice to his eager student (Laurie). <br />
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VERY NSFW - Language.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-42499759855870282542011-08-26T16:52:00.001-04:002011-08-26T16:52:32.103-04:00Spend $176 million to save $60000?Florida's Governor Scott claims that welfare recipients are "More likely to abuse drugs" than others, as his justification for this invasive & costly program.<br />
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Since it has been enacted, <a href="http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2011/aug/24/3/welfare-drug-testing-yields-2-percent-positive-res-ar-252458/">only 2%</a> of those who are applying for welfare benefits in Florida have been found to have illegal drugs in their system. 2% is hardly "Most".
The law doesn't create the Tea Party's wish for a smaller, less intrusive government. It's an example of Rick Scott's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAvzoYxNPrc">Really, really, really big government</a>.<br />
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As it takes money from Florida taxpayers, it also personally enriches Governor Scott, because his wife owns the companies the state has hired to do the testing.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/florida-welfare-drug-test-costs">Rick Scott Takes the Piss Out of Florida Taxpayers | Mother Jones</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-7772909781193521692011-07-22T02:11:00.000-04:002011-07-22T02:11:03.276-04:00At the time, this comic cross-over made sense -- sort of<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; "><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/7907775339/1/tumblr_lopne9yrGq1qz82gv" id="high_res_link_7907775339" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; "><img class="image" alt="" width="462" height="700" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lopne9yrGq1qz82gvo1_500.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; " /></a></div><div class="caption" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; margin-top: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; "><p style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; ">Hey, remember when <span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-color: initial;"><a href="http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_TreX"><i>this</i></a></span> happened?</strong></p></div></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-50413074250007989712011-07-21T13:05:00.001-04:002011-07-21T13:05:33.359-04:00American Family Association Head: The First Amendment Does Not Apply to "Non-Christian Religions"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"The First Amendment was written neither to guarantee freedom of religion to Muslims or Buddhists or Hindus nor to prohibit their free exercise of religion. It wasn’t written about them one way or another. It was written for one specific purpose: to protect the free exercise of the Christian religion. We must be clear: the First Amendment does not prohibit the free exercise of alternative religions, but neither does it guarantee it. It simply does not address the issue at all." - American Family Association spokesman and national radio host <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/following-fischers-logic-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-mormons-either" style="color: #334477;">Bryan Fischer</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120336002594229556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9119701590285450189.post-79385123456718172011-07-13T16:19:00.001-04:002011-07-13T16:23:54.419-04:00Playing With InfoGraphics<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The new site, <a href="http://visual.ly/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Visual.ly</span></a> is <span style="font-weight: bold;">way</span> too much fun! It's new and growing. What is it? It's a warehouse of Infographics and data visualizations curated from across the web. Go check it out, but plan to be there for a while. I played with the <a href="http://visual.ly/twitter">Twitterizer tool</a>:</span><br />
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