Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

This blog has a whole bunch of tutorials that explain how to achieve various effects with digital scrapbooking.

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

This blog has a whole bunch of tutorials that explain how to achieve various effects with digital scrapbooking.

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

This blog has a whole bunch of tutorials that explain how to achieve various effects with digital scrapbooking.

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

This blog has a whole bunch of tutorials that explain how to achieve various effects with digital scrapbooking.

History Is Sweet

kathryn_aka_kat has posted a large collection of historic dessert recipes, in both original and modern terminology, all previously tested.

History Is Sweet

kathryn_aka_kat has posted a large collection of historic dessert recipes, in both original and modern terminology, all previously tested.

History Is Sweet

kathryn_aka_kat has posted a large collection of historic dessert recipes, in both original and modern terminology, all previously tested.

History Is Sweet

kathryn_aka_kat has posted a large collection of historic dessert recipes, in both original and modern terminology, all previously tested.

What the government thinks of you

The government has decided that a human life is worth substantially less money than it was five years ago. Note that money is the only worth they seem to recognize. They are admitting openly that they care less about whether you continue to live. The newsbit popped up in my email, forwarded by a friend from a list called waynepeace.

What Your Government Thinks You're Worth
If you didn't see this little item in this morning's paper....In its entirety:

A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May -- a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pullution.

Compiled from wire reports

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court tells us that companies are entitled to a "sense of fairness" regarding judgments against them, when it lowered the punitive judgment against ExxonMobil for the Valdiz oil spill. It would be nice if individual humans enjoyed the rights currently granted to companies.

Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
By Robert Weissman
July 11, 2008

Last month witnessed the extraordinary contrast of two perspectives on crime, punishment and ExxonMobil.

Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs "should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for their role in delaying a serious global response to climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that a $2.5 billion punitive judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill disaster denied the company the "sense of fairness" to which it is entitled.

What the government thinks of you

The government has decided that a human life is worth substantially less money than it was five years ago. Note that money is the only worth they seem to recognize. They are admitting openly that they care less about whether you continue to live. The newsbit popped up in my email, forwarded by a friend from a list called waynepeace.

What Your Government Thinks You're Worth
If you didn't see this little item in this morning's paper....In its entirety:

A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May -- a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pullution.

Compiled from wire reports

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court tells us that companies are entitled to a "sense of fairness" regarding judgments against them, when it lowered the punitive judgment against ExxonMobil for the Valdiz oil spill. It would be nice if individual humans enjoyed the rights currently granted to companies.

Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
By Robert Weissman
July 11, 2008

Last month witnessed the extraordinary contrast of two perspectives on crime, punishment and ExxonMobil.

Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs "should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for their role in delaying a serious global response to climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that a $2.5 billion punitive judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill disaster denied the company the "sense of fairness" to which it is entitled.

What the government thinks of you

The government has decided that a human life is worth substantially less money than it was five years ago. Note that money is the only worth they seem to recognize. They are admitting openly that they care less about whether you continue to live. The newsbit popped up in my email, forwarded by a friend from a list called waynepeace.

What Your Government Thinks You're Worth
If you didn't see this little item in this morning's paper....In its entirety:

A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May -- a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pullution.

Compiled from wire reports

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court tells us that companies are entitled to a "sense of fairness" regarding judgments against them, when it lowered the punitive judgment against ExxonMobil for the Valdiz oil spill. It would be nice if individual humans enjoyed the rights currently granted to companies.

Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
By Robert Weissman
July 11, 2008

Last month witnessed the extraordinary contrast of two perspectives on crime, punishment and ExxonMobil.

Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs "should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for their role in delaying a serious global response to climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that a $2.5 billion punitive judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill disaster denied the company the "sense of fairness" to which it is entitled.

What the government thinks of you

The government has decided that a human life is worth substantially less money than it was five years ago. Note that money is the only worth they seem to recognize. They are admitting openly that they care less about whether you continue to live. The newsbit popped up in my email, forwarded by a friend from a list called waynepeace.

What Your Government Thinks You're Worth
If you didn't see this little item in this morning's paper....In its entirety:

A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May -- a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pullution.

Compiled from wire reports

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court tells us that companies are entitled to a "sense of fairness" regarding judgments against them, when it lowered the punitive judgment against ExxonMobil for the Valdiz oil spill. It would be nice if individual humans enjoyed the rights currently granted to companies.

Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
By Robert Weissman
July 11, 2008

Last month witnessed the extraordinary contrast of two perspectives on crime, punishment and ExxonMobil.

Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs "should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for their role in delaying a serious global response to climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that a $2.5 billion punitive judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill disaster denied the company the "sense of fairness" to which it is entitled.

Democracy and the Media

Here is a withering and precise explanation of how corporate media is contributing to the erosion of democracy in America.

Democracy only works when an informed public makes sound decisions. When the news is all crammed with infotainment that turns out to be inaccurate, that undermines people's ability to make sound decisions. Look around you at the crashing economy, housing collapse, unemployment surge in which many people have simply given up searching for nonexistent jobs, and $4/gallon gasoline. Bad information spread by sloppy journalism has and continues to contribue to all of that.

The real journalists I described in an earlier post are all being removed from the field by "businessmen" who are buying out newspapers and other media. The purpose of newspapers is no longer to discover and spread news; it is only to make money. The more portions of the economy are taken over by businessmen, the worse the goods and services become, because quality is no longer a priority -- only money. In other words, those people are behaving like parasites, only interested in fleecing their customers rather than giving solid value for a reasonable price. More disaster ensues.

Do you hate this?

• Visit Save the Internet where you can find more information, tell Congress to make net neutrality the law, sign up for alerts, or donate funds.


• Visit the Free Press Action Network where you can learn about media issues, follow FPAN campaigns, sign up for alerts or daily headlines, or donate funds.

Democracy and the Media

Here is a withering and precise explanation of how corporate media is contributing to the erosion of democracy in America.

Democracy only works when an informed public makes sound decisions. When the news is all crammed with infotainment that turns out to be inaccurate, that undermines people's ability to make sound decisions. Look around you at the crashing economy, housing collapse, unemployment surge in which many people have simply given up searching for nonexistent jobs, and $4/gallon gasoline. Bad information spread by sloppy journalism has and continues to contribue to all of that.

The real journalists I described in an earlier post are all being removed from the field by "businessmen" who are buying out newspapers and other media. The purpose of newspapers is no longer to discover and spread news; it is only to make money. The more portions of the economy are taken over by businessmen, the worse the goods and services become, because quality is no longer a priority -- only money. In other words, those people are behaving like parasites, only interested in fleecing their customers rather than giving solid value for a reasonable price. More disaster ensues.

Do you hate this?

• Visit Save the Internet where you can find more information, tell Congress to make net neutrality the law, sign up for alerts, or donate funds.


• Visit the Free Press Action Network where you can learn about media issues, follow FPAN campaigns, sign up for alerts or daily headlines, or donate funds.

Democracy and the Media

Here is a withering and precise explanation of how corporate media is contributing to the erosion of democracy in America.

Democracy only works when an informed public makes sound decisions. When the news is all crammed with infotainment that turns out to be inaccurate, that undermines people's ability to make sound decisions. Look around you at the crashing economy, housing collapse, unemployment surge in which many people have simply given up searching for nonexistent jobs, and $4/gallon gasoline. Bad information spread by sloppy journalism has and continues to contribue to all of that.

The real journalists I described in an earlier post are all being removed from the field by "businessmen" who are buying out newspapers and other media. The purpose of newspapers is no longer to discover and spread news; it is only to make money. The more portions of the economy are taken over by businessmen, the worse the goods and services become, because quality is no longer a priority -- only money. In other words, those people are behaving like parasites, only interested in fleecing their customers rather than giving solid value for a reasonable price. More disaster ensues.

Do you hate this?

• Visit Save the Internet where you can find more information, tell Congress to make net neutrality the law, sign up for alerts, or donate funds.


• Visit the Free Press Action Network where you can learn about media issues, follow FPAN campaigns, sign up for alerts or daily headlines, or donate funds.

Democracy and the Media

Here is a withering and precise explanation of how corporate media is contributing to the erosion of democracy in America.

Democracy only works when an informed public makes sound decisions. When the news is all crammed with infotainment that turns out to be inaccurate, that undermines people's ability to make sound decisions. Look around you at the crashing economy, housing collapse, unemployment surge in which many people have simply given up searching for nonexistent jobs, and $4/gallon gasoline. Bad information spread by sloppy journalism has and continues to contribue to all of that.

The real journalists I described in an earlier post are all being removed from the field by "businessmen" who are buying out newspapers and other media. The purpose of newspapers is no longer to discover and spread news; it is only to make money. The more portions of the economy are taken over by businessmen, the worse the goods and services become, because quality is no longer a priority -- only money. In other words, those people are behaving like parasites, only interested in fleecing their customers rather than giving solid value for a reasonable price. More disaster ensues.

Do you hate this?

• Visit Save the Internet where you can find more information, tell Congress to make net neutrality the law, sign up for alerts, or donate funds.


• Visit the Free Press Action Network where you can learn about media issues, follow FPAN campaigns, sign up for alerts or daily headlines, or donate funds.

A Musicologist Discovers Filk

musicahumanica is exploring filk music from a musicology perspective. This ought to be fun to watch.

A Musicologist Discovers Filk

musicahumanica is exploring filk music from a musicology perspective. This ought to be fun to watch.

A Musicologist Discovers Filk

musicahumanica is exploring filk music from a musicology perspective. This ought to be fun to watch.

A Musicologist Discovers Filk

musicahumanica is exploring filk music from a musicology perspective. This ought to be fun to watch.

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions
ABC wants your visions of the future for a new show called Earth 2100. They want user-created videos for the show.

Somehow I doubt this is a paying market. Pity, that.

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions
ABC wants your visions of the future for a new show called Earth 2100. They want user-created videos for the show.

Somehow I doubt this is a paying market. Pity, that.

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions
ABC wants your visions of the future for a new show called Earth 2100. They want user-created videos for the show.

Somehow I doubt this is a paying market. Pity, that.

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions

ABC Wants Your Future Predictions
ABC wants your visions of the future for a new show called Earth 2100. They want user-created videos for the show.

Somehow I doubt this is a paying market. Pity, that.

Pegasus Awards for Filk

Nomination is currently open for the Pegasus Award, recognizing excellence in filk music.

Pegasus Awards for Filk

Nomination is currently open for the Pegasus Award, recognizing excellence in filk music.

Pegasus Awards for Filk

Nomination is currently open for the Pegasus Award, recognizing excellence in filk music.

Pegasus Awards for Filk

Nomination is currently open for the Pegasus Award, recognizing excellence in filk music.