Sew for the gold

From my daughter Julia’s site, Quilter Geek:
A poster in the Livejournal Quilting Community made a post about Quilts for Kids, a charity that provides donated quilts to sick children. I plan to donate one of my Easter-fabric pinwheel quilts to the cause.
Not only do they accept donations using fabric from your stash, but they’ll send [...]

Go Google!

Word is spreading quickly on Twitter. In response to an attempted brute force hack on its servers, Google is ready to pull the plug on China, with whom it had previously collaborated on censored search results. It appears that the target of the attack was the GMail accounts of human rights activists in [...]

Don’t ask don’t tell (those names)

The Colbert Report
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Roots on a whole new level

This is absolutely horrifying. The United Kingdom is rolling out Human Provenance, a program to collect tissue samples from potential immigrants in a plan which the Border Service says will allow them to accurately assess an applicant’s country of origin.  In effect, a mitochondrial DNA test (mtDNA) would be used to decide whether someone [...]

This space for rent

From the New York Times:
When a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Movement volunteered last year to clean a Missouri highway, and get official recognition for it in the form of an Adopt-a-Highway sign, state officials felt powerless to refuse. So they took a rather clever tack.
…Officials are renaming the stretch of highway near Springfield [...]

Hugh Laurie – Kicking Ass

Before there was House and Black Adder, there was A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Check out the man behind the shades.
This little ditty is just as appropriate now as it was 20 years ago. Language NSFW.

It’s not just honeybees that are threatened

Burt’s Bees has been bought out.

Today, the couple’s quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt’s Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart.
I’ve been a devoted Burt’s [...]

I can has dignity back?

While these white beluga whales are being used as Christmas entertainment in Japan, their humpback cousins are being hunted down and killed by Japanese whaling fleets.
Too bad letting them live in peace doesn’t seem to be an option.

Better dead than on the dole

“What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” –Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
It’s unusual for hospitals, particularly public ones, to turn away patients who need non-emergency care, although they’re not required by law to treat them. But some facilities, in a cost cutting measure, now [...]

He can’t bear global warming

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