All Things Supercinski

These are some links for April 7th through April 25th. Enjoy!

• Declarations – WSJ.com –
• MercatorNet – A new analysis shows that in less than three years Pope Benedict has spoken out on marriage 111 times. –
• Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket – CNN.com – The issue is also fueling a rising debate over how much the rising prices can be blamed on ethanol production.
• Three Kids? You Showoffs. –

These are some links I think you might find useful and interesting. Enjoy!

• YouTube – Window in the Sky – A video created by an acquaintance of mine and his coworkers.
• Partying Like It’s 1929 – New York Times – This banking crisis of the 1930s showed that unregulated, unsupervised financial markets can all too easily suffer catastrophic failure. As the decades passed, however, that lesson was forgotten – and now we’re relearning it, the hard way.
• Denis Darzacq :: Portfolios :: La chute – Amazing photography apparently accomplished with a combination of break dancers and timing.
• Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit – If you have seen Everest: Beyond the Limit, you will be moved by this film.

These are some links for January 13th through January 22nd. Enjoy!

• A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares –
• Forget oil, the new global crisis is food – What do you think?
• Earth 911 – Go Green, Recycling, Reuse & Renewal, Eco News – Find where and how to recycle anything.
• Glassbooth – Quiz to help you choose best 2008 presidential candidate – Yet another candidate quiz, but with an excellent and easy to understand interface.

These are some links for January 9th through January 12th. Enjoy!

• Parable of the broken window – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The Broken Window Fallacy has many applications. This is an interesting read.
• The Simple Dollar: Ten Financial Reasons To Turn Off Your Television – And Ten Things To Replace It With – There are many reasons why you might consider turning off the television. Here are 10 financial reasons you might consider.
• FT.com / Europe – Europe set for debate rerun on “Frankenfoods” – The EU is feeling pressure from the WTO to allow GMO foods in. The acceptance by American consumers mentioned is undoubtedly because American consumers weren’t told that GMO foods were on their table.
• The Twilight of the Books? – A reader learns about the world and imagines it differently from the way a viewer does; according to some experimental psychologists, a reader and a viewer even think differently.

These are some links for January 2nd through January 3rd. Enjoy!

• They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt – The similarities to our times are chilling. Have we been so distracted by our age of entertainment that we have not thought about what is really going on around us?
  “It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway.”
• Save Your Trash – You may have seen this man on TV – he saved his trash for a year. Check out what he learned and how he was changed in the process.
• The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007 – This list highlights the hubris shown in our culture today. I wonder how much consideration was given to the possible damage these activities could create.
• Are There Really ‘Continents’ of Floating Garbage? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond – I sure hope this helps you think twice about discarding as much as you (we all) do. Join the local freecycle group, reuse items creatively, simply buy less.