the reality tunnel

I’m soliciting funds again.  This time, to support a project that I work closely with called the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (http://pagestoprisoners.org)  We send free reading material to people incarcerated in juvenile facilities, prisons, and jails throughout the Midwest, Florida, and Arizona.  Our primary means of support is  through the donation of books and [...]

This has been sitting in my drafts for way too long.  Just going to post it and maybe add to it later.  Besides, I wanted to post the conversation map which I think is pretty interesting … I got back from the CR10 conference in Oakland yesterday and still fill sleep deprived and like my [...]

I always feel like I get this burst of inspiration from travel. Rawny != Geoff Press Conference After the youtube video where a commentor wondered if the band was my side project (because Rawny was playing in it) and being mistaken for me by the waitress at Wee Willies, I think it would be an [...]

By now this is old news: A stampede of shoppers in a Valley Stream Wal-Mart on Friday morning left one worker dead and at least three patrons injured after an impatient crowd broke down the store doors and trampled the seasonal employee, Nassau police said.  Jdimytai Damour of Jamaica, Queens, was pushed to the ground [...]

Take Back the Tech: take action – online and off – to end violence against women Whether its through community radio, posters, sms, emails, audiocasts or websites, creative and informed use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) helps get the word out on violence against women (VAW). We have to know about technology to best [...]

From my pretty removed perspective, I know that there is homophobia in some Black communities.  This dynamic has been getting a lot of attention lately due to reports, which I wrote about earlier, that Black voters in California were instrumental in the state’s electorate passing Proposition 8.  While I believe that homophobia is a complicated [...]

I kept getting logjammed checking my personal e-mail at work, so I made separate profiles in Thunderbird for each.  However, every once in a while, I want to open both at once to monitor incoming e-mail from both my personal and work accounts.  In order to do this, you need to provide the -no-remote switch [...]

ghing@silvertongue:~/.mozilla/firefox/imtysl65.default/Cache$ ls -lh `find . -size +1M | file -f – | grep Flash | awk -F ‘:’ ‘{ printf “%s “, $1; }’`

The Obama campaign, due in no small part to grassroots volunteer power, did an incredible job of hitting the streets and talking to people about what Barack Obama was all about, even in areas that have been traditionally seen as hostile to Democrats (and in places, people of color).  Were opponents of prop. 8 as [...]

I want to try to draw some cohesive analysis from the election results, but it’s so difficult.  I’m just going to post some things that come across my radar that I responded to. Folks talking about voting for McKinney/Clemente made me think long and hard about third party candidates.  I was so sick of hearing [...]