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	February 9, 2008

Saturday Links of the Week -- February 9, 2008 and you thought you had a lot of snow...Kevin Cameron's recent photo of snow in Japan. Love Conversation Community What Do We Want From Love?: My Second Life partner-in-crime Mia asks whether what men and women expect and demand from love is different, and if that affects how they relate in community. And Do We Know What We Want at All?: Patti Digh brilliantly suggests that as important as it is to ask for what we want, to strive for what we want, the snag is often that we really don't know what that is. 37days is now officially my favourite blog in the world. Defining Friendship, or Not: Pohangina Pete McGregor plays a bit with us, after promising to define or explain what friendship means to him. But in the end, as always, he delivers. His prose is pure poetry, and his photography is divine. Show, don't tell. Business Innovation Innovation Book Now Free: Frans Johansson's book The Medici Effect, on how innovation happens at intersections, which I've review on this blog, is now available for free download. Environment We Have to Think Differently About the Environment: An interesting report says political activism won't save the environment, that it will take a whole new (or old) way of thinking. Sharon Astyk says we should follow the 'church model' (engaging the community) of activism (thanks to David Parkinson for the link). And one enviro community, FactorE Farm, has developed an 'open source' clay brick maker that could make environmentally responsible building more affordable. Most Biofuels Use More Energy Than They Produce: Meanwhile, two new studies reveal the corn ethanol craze for the corporatist scam it really is. Don't Watch This Video: Institutional animal abuse is endemic in Big Ag oligopoly factory farms, with the complicity of the Bush regime and the impotent USDA, but the infamous video at least is waking up some people to this atrocity. Please don't watch it; the article tells you all you need to know. Politics Afghan Insanity: Canada continues to risk its soldiers' lives to prop up a corrupt, torturing misogynist Afghan regime. A journalist is about to be executed there by the government for questioning the fundamentalists' view of marriage. Clinton's Health Plan More Inclusive Than Obama's: That's the only real difference in platforms between them that I can see. Of course neither plan is likely to make it through the corpocratic US blockades. 11:02:36 PM  trackback []  comment []

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