Some links to keep you busy:
A Protestor’s Guide to the Democratic National Convention
What does the rest of the world think about U.S. elections? Voices without Votes knows.
Saudi girls deserve sports heroes, too ; my latest blogging venture.
WeOp-Ed : Participatory media at its finest (idea-wise, that is).
And in the totally random category (well, maybe not so much considering how obsessed I am with gymnastics once every four years)… an interview with Yelena Mukhina , the Olympic gymnast who, competing for the Soviet team in the 1980s, sustained an injury that left her a quadriplegic. Mukhina died in 2006.
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Boston, SunsetFrom: jilliancyork.com
Post Date: 2008-07-19 05:08:26
Despite the unfortunate ending to this evening (apparent food poisoning), it was - all in all - a great day. I hadn’t been downtown in almost a month (save for two trips to my old job on Atlantic Ave.) and was lucky to catch it in my favorite light of sunset. These photos give me cameralust all over again (cameralust=the urge to run out and by a digital SLR).
The Hancock building (I used to go to the 52nd floor for meetings - best view in town), P...
more Secularism ≠RacismFrom: jilliancyork.com
Post Date: 2008-07-20 07:34:39
I really wasn’t going to blog about this. It’s been done to death - even PostGlobal covered it four times yesterday. An Iranian, an Emirati, a South Korean, and a German all weighed in, all with different opinions. I covered it yesterday for Global Voices as well, quoting several Arab-Americans, as well as a white American, and someone of unknown origins - again, all different opinions. A cursory glance at the blogosphere finds the same thing.
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more The Unbearable Lightness of Feeling OrdinaryFrom: jilliancyork.com
Post Date: 2008-07-22 06:00:14
When do we lose that childlike excitement at traveling? That excitement, so easily inspired in me just 10 short years ago by a trip to Disney World (and I’d been abroad by that point), has ceased to exist. The last time I felt it was Prague, but then could Prague inspire anything less in anyone?
It breaks my heart a little each time I land in a new city and feel simply ordinary. It’s normal, of course - the more places you see, the more you are able to draw compariso...
more Possibility, coincidence, inspiration.From: jilliancyork.com
Post Date: 2008-07-26 10:05:43
The world is full of possibility. And coincidence. And inspiration.
I don’t know where to start. I feel naked; no less than three times this week have I felt that thoughts have been pulled directly from my head. It is that same phenomenon of exposure that inspires me to write…and to read. The book I’m reading right now - which shall remain nameless until I finish it and can thus write about it properly - follows a similar theme, at least by page 100, anyhow. It&#...
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