also: cool stuff...
five dangerous things you should teach your children to do. I like the emphasis on empowering children, inspiring inquiry, and engaging with the world in a way that involves breaking it down into knowable bits. In spite of my initial skepticism after his admission that he has none of his own. Love the introduction to civil disobedience in the last one. Even law-abiding citizens shouldn't be mindlessly so.
alternatively, you could just go full-Bedford and model cliff jumping
finally, someone besides Daniel Quinn who questions the belief that agricultural societies are, as a whole, better off than hunter-gatherer ones, but with more evidence. [edit: well, more anecdotal evidence--no sources].
finally, don't mess with the Indian Navy. they will use their tiger torpedoes on you.
from the big picture.
oh, and, because of my love of all things post-apocalyptic--apocalypse as pornography.
and one more thing--all the people in the world, represented by grains of rice.
--edit again--
As you might be aware, the top five of my google reader shared items are available on the upper lefthand corner of my little blogsite here. Basically, it's interesting reading. I've updated the header there to link to a page where you can see all my google reader shared items, and I think even comment on them, which would be cool. There's some good reading there. And I chose the "ninja" style, because they didn't have a pirate one. So check it out!
