Ed Dowding

The Good Gym pairs runners with isolated less-mobile people in their area. Runners jog to their house, deliver something nice, have a brief chat and are on their way again.

It helps people get fit by providing a good reason to go for a run and it helps the person being visited by providing them with some friendly human contact and a newspaper or piece of fruit.

via The Good Gym » How it Works.

I wonder if this is going to play out as it does in the Bible, wherein power-hungry incumbent with delusions of grandeur (and a penchant for voyeurism) shows true colours, and banishes us from every getting near such founts of knowledge again?

Paypal and Amazon have already removed their support for WikiLeaks.

God directly forbade Adam (Eve having not yet been created) to eat the fruit of this tree. A serpent tempted Eve, who was aware of the prohibition against eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge (Genesis 3:1-6). The serpent had suggested to Eve that eating the fruit would bestow wisdom upon them.

Eve and then Adam ate the forbidden fruit, and they became aware of their nakedness (Genesis 3:6-7).

After discovering their disobedience, God banished the couple from the garden in order to deny them access to the Tree of Life, which would have bestowed immortality onto them.

God cursed both the snake and the ground, obliging Adam to survive through agriculture “by the sweat of his brow.” He told the woman that her childbirth pains would be greatly increased and that the man would rule over her. God set guards at the east side of the garden to protect the way to the tree of life from Adam, Eve, and their descendants. (Genesis 3:14-24)

via Tree of the knowledge of good and evil – Wikipedia

New Orleans is full of vacant storefronts and people who need things. These stickers are an easy tool to voice what you want where you want it. Fill them out and put them on abandoned buildings and beyond.

These stickers are custom vinyl and can be easily removed without damaging property. They’re free and can be found in corner stores, cafes, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other places around New Orleans. See select photos and find more at I Wish This Was.

The world used to be (perceived to be) made up of four elements: Earth, air, fire, and water.

A few years back Ollie and I figured all the problems in the world would go away if only we could sort out the energy thing. Not least because if we really nailed it we could just drive spaceships out into space, rapidly terraform the Moon / Mars etc and… well the point being that energy was the crux of the whole danged palaver.

That’s all very nice, but a bit too abstract, and un-actionable since I’m not a nanotech solar guy or a bioengineering algae specialist.

The next two concepts humanity’s letting itself down with at the moment are time and money, which is where I’ve been focusing my attentions.

It occurred to me there’s another which I’d missed out, but is in fact just as essential: politics. To clarify, I mean here politics in its core sense of working out how to co-exist with other people and their curious ways, without ripping their heads off.

My suggestion for a contemporary version of the 4 essential elements are, in order of perceived importance:

• Time – our most precious resource
• Money – our next most precious resource since it allows trade of things, and – just importantly but significantly differently – the trade of abstract things like ideas
• Energy – everything else
• Politics – creating the conditions for harmony

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