Indy Star survey on Marriage Equality
The Indy Star has an online poll on it’s front page, asking:
Should the Indiana General Assembly amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages?
Please go vote NO on the poll.
links for 2006-10-30
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Bloomington native creates a fake boarding pass generator to illustrate how easy it is to break the security — and gets in trouble for whistleblowing.
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Awesome poster/chart of world history.
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The Good Life: New Public Spaces For Recreation explores the reinvention of urban public spaces to meet the needs of 21st century recreation. The exhibition features an international array of projects by Ábalos & Herreros, Acconci Studio, Adjaye/Associat
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The laws governing “intellectual property” have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork–as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s–will no
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Awesome altered art.
The number 8 rabbit
The white rabbit with the number eight on it from Lost is in Stephen King’s book “On Writing.” I haven’t read a whole lot of Stephen King, so I don’t know if it’s a plot point in one of his fiction novels also.
links for 2006-10-28
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“I believe in full equality of benefits, nothing left out,” she said. “From my perspective there is a greater likelihood of us getting to that point in civil unions or domestic partnerships and that is my very considered assessment.”
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Indiana Republican Dan Burton gets trashed in a national review of political websites by one of the largest tech companies online. Ha ha!
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A google-api map that supposedly gives stats and data about neighborhoods.
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NBC refuses to air ads for the Dixie Chicks movie.
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Fighting for Marriage provides information at your fingertips to fight back. Marriage for same-sex couples has captured the nation’s interest, bringing unprecedented attention to the struggle for equality for LGBT people. Reactive forces are now hard at
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mydd.com releases a GOP internal list of GOP candidates and their races, projecting their viability as candidates. Fun!
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Former Bush administration official David Safavian was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Friday for concealing his relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Harvey Weinstein: “It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. Th
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In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron’s internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into the lives and preoccupations
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Dawkins is touring in support of his recent book “The God Delusion” and keeping a journal of the tour.
Local progressive websites I added to my newsreader
A couple of local progressive websites I discovered through actblue.com, the online donation clearinghouse for democratic candidates. I added them to my feedreader under politics.
http://www.indianaprogressives.com/
http://indyfordemocracy.com/
A Commonplacebook Candidate Endorsements
These are Marion County, Indiana Democratic candidates who have shown strong stances and leadership on progressive issues including improving education, finding health care solutions for all Hoosiers, property tax reform and equality for GLBT citizens.
I’ve personally shaken hands with all of these candidates at one time or another and discussed issues with them. I met with Russel Brown, Dr. David Orentlicher and John Barnes last week and think highly of their plans for office. I’ve recently had an email exchange with Susan Fuldauer and was equally impressed. I’ll sit down and write about the discussions I’ve had with all of them more fully this weekend.
Candidates with strong, sound stances deserve our support, and your dollars can make the difference. Please make a contribution to this critical cause, either to all of the candidates or on an individual basis.
| Julia Carson (IN-07) | $ |
| Russell Brown (IN-SD-31) | $ |
| David Orentlicher (IN-HD-86) | $ |
| Susan Fuldauer (IN-HD-88) | $ |
| John Barnes (IN-HD-89) | $ |
| John Day (IN-HD-100) | $ |
| Edmund Mahern (IN-HD-97) | $ |
If you’d like to promote any of these candidates on your own site, you can link to this page to encourage contributions:
http://www.actblue.com/page/marion_county_indiana
And you can add some nice graphics from this page. Like this one:
Act Blue: Support
Progressive Candidates
UPDATE: The Indiana Stonewall Democrats are endorsing J. D. Lux for House District 57, which is in Shelbyville, Indiana. He doesn’t seem to be plugged into the actblue.com website yet, so visit his page for more information on him and to figure out how to make contributions to his campaign.
links for 2006-10-27
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Indiana's Hostettler Issues Nasty Homophobic Campaign Ad"Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after paying for sex with a man who ran a gay brothel out of U.S. Rep. Frank's home," the narrator says.
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Film of Limbaugh during his radio show where he trashed Michael J. Fox for making an ad promoting stem cell research – Seeing Limbaugh during his diatribe is unbelieveable.
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Sid Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald talk about the Imperial Presidency, and one thing is important enough for me to want to live blog. Sid says that Wilkerson, Powell’s old chief of staff, believes that the correct number of victims in secret Bush prison
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“Watch and comment on human rights video from around the world curated by WITNESS.” Documenting human rights abuses around the world.
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Online Tutorial at Melissa Clifton. Excellent tutorial on creating popart illustrations from photographs.
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Carving a pumpkin into a Dalek. Hee. The mixer arm thingy attachment cracked me up.
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Awesome photogallery of Burning Man 2006 event.
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Kid climbs inside the claw vending machine to get a toy, gets himself unstuck with screwdriver handed to him by emergency crew.
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The alternative to all the yellow ribbons you (used to) see on cars — the ribbon as infinity symbol.
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Click on your NFL team to vote — and a local charity gets money. Great for everyone.
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Republican candidates for the Indiana House pledged today to seek final passage of a proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The pledge is the 12th and final promise in a series of campaign proposals the GOP candidates made as t
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Lots of eye-opening stats – like “BUSH’S TAX CUTS GIVE a 2-child family earning $1 million an extra $86,722—or Harvard tuition, room, board, and an iMac G5 for both kids.”
links for 2006-10-26
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In a 4-3 decision the New Jersey Supreme Court held that “although we cannot find that a fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists in this State, the unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated
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DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become cl
Crazy Week
I’ve been trying to catch a few minutes to write about the blogger forum with progressive candidates that I attended last Friday, but it’s been such a hectic week I haven’t had a chance. Among other things, I joined the Y this week. I’ve been going regularly for water aerobics, and eventually you have to become a member or they stop letting you visit. Fortunately, I’ve really been enjoying the class, and have been planning on going to more during the week, so it makes sense to join.
I finally managed to get my damned truck bed cover on — with the help of the guys from Just Trucks, where I bought it in the first place. That’s some damned fine customer service, and they’re really nice guys to help me out. They certainly didn’t have to. The problem is that I bought the cheapest cover, and I should have spent a bit more and purchased one that goes on and off easily. So if you need car accessories or truck bling, go there, and tell them I sent you, because they deserve to know their kindness is appreciated.
links for 2006-10-25
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It appears that the Foley emails that leaked to the press came from somewhere in the HRC office. Wow. Someone at HRC actually has some balls. Good on ya!
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The Metro Transit dispute raises questions about the point at which accommodating one group’s beliefs infringes on the rights of others.
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Limbaugh says ”…he was either off the medication or he was acting. He is an actor, after all.” regarding ads that Fox created to encourage stem cell research that would combat Parkinson’s disease, which Fox suffers from.
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Cool photography book on the offices and workspaces of American writers.
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Young women fleeing war and poverty in Iraq fall prey to sex traffickers – over 800,000 women that the U.S. is carefully ignoring.
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