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1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Website of Paul Kingsnorth - Author of One No, Many Yeses, the Anti Globalisation and Global Resistance book.
Generate a random bible quote on every load of the page (set as your homepage). Passages are read aloud using text to speech technology to help those with vision issues. There are 31,102 total verses in the scriptures to be randomized!
1 FaverShareViewed: 10 TimesCHINA: Portrait of a People author and photographer Tom Carter expounds on Chinese censorship, peasant riots and how insolvency helped inspire his new book in this first exclusive interview.
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131 FaversShareViewed: 54 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 5 TimesQuoted: The seven stories display an amazing confidence and range for so young an author, moving from a religious festival in Tehran to the days before an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima to the cardboard shantytowns of Colombia where 14-year-old boys yearn to get “an office job,” slang for work as a hired assassin.
Orson Scott Card reflects on J.K. Rowling and her lawsuit.. in a rather scathing way - complete with his comparison of the Harry Potter stories to his own Ender's Game.
1 FaverShareViewed: 7 TimesQuoted: A young kid growing up in an oppressive family situation suddenly learns that he is one of a special class of children with special abilities, who are to be educated in a remote training facility where student life is dominated by an intense game played by teams flying in midair, at which this kid turns out to be exceptionally talented and a natural leader.
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A collection of literary tattoo photos. Very nice! Personally, I'm a fan of the text tattoos since they honor the originals.
1 FaverViewed: 7 TimesQuoted: Adventures in middlebrow.
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From Crimeth.Inc:
Our favorite radio show, This American Life, recently did a hour show examining the current mortgage crisis— the straw that broke the camel’s back and triggered a global financial crisis, the end of which is nowhere in sight. As the U.S. stumbles forward deeper and deeper into a recession, it would behoove those of us who don’t understand what has happened to take a minute to learn about the economic process—which was truly not a major aberration from business as usual—behind the credit collapse that has many economists warning of a new economic depression.
As usual, TAL makes the dry subject matter absolutely fascinating and entertaining, interviewing victims and perpetrators at every level of the travesty, and as they say:
We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
Listen to the show here, for free, by clicking on the ‘Full Episode’ link. For those looking for more details, another radio favorite of ours, Fresh Air, has some more perspectives here, and here. And of course, Wikipedia comes through with 12,000 words on the subject.
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