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Archive for November 1st, 2006

Explosive Coffee

In Ethiopia, a man uses spent shell casings to make coffee machines. I love it when people use former weapons of destruction to make something that can be used everyday in a constructive way. It shows a willingness to acknowledge the past while building a better today, plus some neat human ingenuity!
“The shells [...]

November 1st, 2006
Topic: Direct Action, Peace Tags: ,

NANOWRIMO

It’s that time of the year again – NANOWRIMO!
“National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly [...]

November 1st, 2006
Topic: Art Tags: , ,

Cloud Appreciation Society

I LOVE CLOUDS!
They are quite amazing and very often overlooked because we just see them day by day. And I looked into clouds and found there is something called the Cloud Appreciation Society and they have a great website full of amazing images of clouds, cloud art, cloud poetry and memorabilia!
Check it out!

November 1st, 2006
Topic: Environment, Mind Space Tags: , , , ,