Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body, by dhammza, with Creative Commons licence
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Greetings Earthlings!
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Making a Difference
Blogging allows me to share information with and voice concerns to people from around the world. If what little I do makes a small change in someone's life, then my words have been enough.
If you would like to find out more about human rights in your region, just click on the logo to visit the Human Rights Watch website.Handbook for Change
Reporters Without Borders offers a free handbook for people wanting to blog for change.
If you're concerned about what's happening around you and need to speak out anonymously, just click on the cover image to visit the handbook page.
The book covers the basics of blogging and how to avoid online censorship. If you know anyone else who could benefit from it, please let them know.Domestic Helper Rights
James Rice is offering the second edition of Take Your Rights Seriously for free online. The book provides a comprehensive overview of domestic helper rights in Hong Kong, with a series of practical tips and useful contact details.
Just click on the cover above to download a copy.
Domestic helpers from other countries are particularly vulnerable to restrictions on their labour and civil rights in Hong Kong. If you know a helper who could benefit from the book, please tell her it’s available here.-
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Currently Reading
In Albert’s Shadow
Compiling forty years of melodrama, remembrance, delight and pain, Milan Popovic presents the correspondence of Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein’s first wife and the mother of his three children.Recommended
Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama vividly captures the pitfalls and triumphs of activism and the personal compromises between culture, race and identity that are needed to engage the world rather than merely live in it.Maybe, But . . .
The New Paradigm for
for Financial Markets
George Soros might be up to the minute in his analysis of the financial crisis, but the philosophy that frames his argument seems to be lagging in unsophisticated notions of reflexivity from the 1980s.
Justice for Vicky Flores- Afterwards 25 November 2008
- The Inquest – An Assessment 20 November 2008
- Finding Given – Suicide 20 November 2008
- SCMP Wrong Again 20 November 2008
- Inquest Winding Up 19 November 2008
- Second Day of Inquest 18 November 2008
- Inquest Underway 18 November 2008
- Preparations for Inquest 12 November 2008
- Sister Unable to Attend Inquest 7 November 2008
- Sister to Return for Inquest 26 October 2008
- Democracy Now!
- Actor, Playwright Anna Deavere Smith Weaves Multiple Stories of Healthcare Struggles into New Solo Performance "Let Me Down Easy" 6 November 2009
- Breaking with Former Employer, Actor and Self-Described Insurance Industry "Spokesjerk" Andy Cobb Calls for Public Healthcare 6 November 2009
- In Worst-Ever Shooting of Its Kind, 13 Dead, 30 Wounded at Ft. Hood Military Base; Suspect Had Reportedly Complained of Anti-Muslim Bias 6 November 2009
- Headlines for November 6, 2009 6 November 2009
- As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining 5 November 2009
- Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for '03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric 5 November 2009
- "GM's Money Trees": Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of "Cap and Trade" System 5 November 2009
- Headlines for November 5, 2009 5 November 2009
- Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields 4 November 2009
- Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse 4 November 2009
- Mind and Brain
- Babies Already Have An Accent 6 November 2009
- MIND Reviews: The Human Spark 6 November 2009
- MIND Reviews: Brainy Gifts 6 November 2009
- True Love: How to Find It (preview) 5 November 2009
- How You Learn More from Success Than Failure 4 November 2009
- Sneezes Provoke Fears Beyond Illness 4 November 2009
- Hearing Our Heartbeats 3 November 2009
- Dangerous Liaisons: How to Deal with a Drama Queen 3 November 2009
- The New Science of Temptation 3 November 2009
- How the Brain Reveals Why We Buy 2 November 2009
- Creative Commons
- Behance Network Creative Roundup 5 November 2009
- Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd 5 November 2009
- Canonical Wants to Double Your Donation! 4 November 2009
- Polish Ministry Creates Incentives for Sharing 3 November 2009
- Printing Thom Yorke’s Head 2 November 2009
- Jamendo PRO Partners with International Hotel & Restaurant Association 2 November 2009
- Commoner Letter #3: Jay Yoon of CC Korea 2 November 2009
- CC Taiwan Launches Version 3.0 31 October 2009
- ccMixter→ArtisTech Media 29 October 2009
- Free Software Award nominations due October 31 29 October 2009
- Wired Pop Culture
- Ask a Flowchart: Should I Delete My Tweet? 7 October 2009
- Video: Origami Documentary Goes 'Between the Folds' 6 October 2009
- How to Fix a Dented Beer Pong Ball 6 October 2009
- How to Make an 'LotR' Sword 5 October 2009
- How to Throw a Proper Beer Pong Shot 5 October 2009
- The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology 5 October 2009
- Don't Drive Like a Jerk and Other Tips for Surviving the Autobahn 2 October 2009
- Artist Profile: In-Camera Collages Take Manhattan 2 October 2009
- Geeky Halloween Idea: PVC Yard Skeletons 2 October 2009
- Jargon Watch: Ethical Governor, Earthquake Cloak, Triggercards 2 October 2009
- Comics, Mainly
- A slide from a new series over at abandonedtheaters.com. (via... 8 November 2009
- thedailything: me: “Stars” (Portland, 2008). A little... 8 November 2009
- Now, one (apparent) editor at the Star has decided to show us... 8 November 2009
- Dirty Projectors Perform “No Intention” on SIRIUS... 4 November 2009
- "Zelda’s Axiom: Whenever somebody tells you about “the five ancient talismans” or..." 3 November 2009
- I Wanna Be Your Dog on Vimeo (via Vimeo) 2 November 2009
- My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of... 31 October 2009
- thedailything: Jorge Ben: “Ponta de Lança Africano... 30 October 2009
- The problem with the web is that access is still controlled by... 29 October 2009
- "As he had done in London, Crisp allowed his phone number to be listed in the telephone directory and..." 23 October 2009
A Note on the Material
Sharing, Not Hoarding
Most photographs on this site are used under Creative Commons licences. Move your cursor over a photo for its title and the photographer's name, or click on the image itself to visit the page from which it came.
Creative Commons is a way of sharing intellectual property and not unduly controlling it. That just has to be a good thing, and the photos really do help make Greetings Earthlings! what it is.
Now it's My Turn
I've chosen a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence for Greetings Earthlings! That means I'm happy for you to use any of the written material here as long as you acknowledge my original efforts. If you change it in any way, that's fine, but you're asked to offer the results under the same licence.
Of course, that doesn't cover any of the graphics, most of which I either don't own or didn't create. Still, combined with the similar licences offered by other people for the photographs, that's a whole lotta scope for sharing.
