Combining cats and cake: somewhere in the world it is National Chocolate Cake Day!
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The evolving power shift and our hyperconnected society
As we move away from the power structures and ways of thinking that governed the twentieth century we are seeing a desperate rearguard action from the power elites who ruled…
happy Caturday with Teddy Bear the porcupine
Zooniversity is the home of one of my favourite animals online – Teddy Bear the porcupine – and he’s celebrating the New Year …
De Profundis: The final mystery is oneself
Recently I was re-reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, a moving letter from prison that looks at spirituality and faith from the depths of despair and degradation. This particular quote stood…
Theme for 2012: Compassion, composure, and flow
Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the…
cake and cats – why not? #caturday #cakeday
Recently Jason Jordan called me on my limited ways of thinking. ARE YOU SUGGESTING IT CANNOT BE BOTH? RT @kcarruthers: @jasonjordan but. but. it’s already Caturday. #cakeday — Jason Jordan…
2012: Not the end of the world, but perhaps the end of the world as we know it
As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass. But I do think…
Worth thinking about: Seven social sins (not about social media) | via M. Gandhi
No, I’m not talking about social media. This is about real life. And I think that Gandhi summed up a lot of what the #Occupy movement is on about in…
Kittehs and ice skating – adorableness multiplied
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0WQ7_xlTt8&w=420&h=315
GOLD! The academic linguistics of LOLspeak
HT to @jim_croft and thanks to Boing Boing. BTW this bears out my notion that Why LOLcats are important. I can has language play: Construction of Language and Identity in…