Ariana Huffington’s Blog is up — and I’ve not yet gone through it comprehensively because I can’t get past Day One and the featured post by John Cusack on Hunter S. Thompson’s memorial service. I hear his voice (Cusack’s, not HST’s) and find that instead of gazing up from the kitchen table at [...]
Mail Order Chickens — Disturbing. Which is the point. No chickens were harmed in the making of this site. 12 April, 2005 — As part of the Global Week of Action, hundreds of poultry, rice and cotton farmers from all over Ghana marched through the capital demanding fairer trade rules yesterday. 36,000 [...]
Samadhi, or concentration of the mind, is the second of the three parts of the Buddha’s teaching, namely Sila (morality), Samadhi (concentration), and Panna (insight/wisdom). It has been taught by the Buddha using 40 different objects of meditation, such as mindfulness of breathing (anapanasati). Upon development of Samadhi, one’s mind becomes purified of defilements, calm, [...]
Surprising reference to Grendel’s mom in an article on surprising moves by first ladies — excerpted from The week the first ladies went mad in the Guardian via Salon:
… by far the best first-lady moment of the week came courtesy of Lucy Kibaki, one of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki’s two wives, who stomped into [...]
cause: new filling + old tooth = paineffect: old tooth - nerve = root canal
Its backers describe it as the “world’s biggest ever mythological theme park.” Hindu gods such as Ram, Hanuman and Krishna will be the central attractions for a 25 acre ‘Disneyland on the Ganges’ in India. Gangadham will recreate great moments in Hindu mythology through hi-tech rides, an animated mythological museum, a “temple city”, food [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005