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• Rejected Wii Games - Bubblare.se
  potentially interesting games for the Wii that were rejected...
  (tags: wii nintendo games videogames videos)

Posted by Adrienne at 08:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Finally, someone in the media has taken notice that the order in which the power was restored to areas of Seattle is totally fishy. As I noted earlier, many parts of Seattle hardest hit happen to be those most racially and economically diverse - and just so happen to suffer without power for DAYS longer than the rest of the city.

I'm sure this could be argued a million ways, but what I find most telling is that Seattle City Light quickly pulled the map they'd posted the day after the outage. Why?

Seattleites have long wanted to believe that, oh no, nothing in their city is ever racist, it's never a problem here, it just happens somewhere else, so how dare you even suggest it?

Yet we know racism is as deeply embedded here as anywhere else. Probably the only difference between Seattle and the rest of the country is there's more denial here; what is obvious to everyone else (power companies are slow to turn on power in blacked out poorer and nonwhite neighborhoods as we saw in Queens and St Louis recently) is denied here.

I saw the same map. And had the same reaction. Maybe there's a non-racist explanation, maybe there isn't. But to deny it out of hand is as foolish as accepting it on assumption alone.

Posted by: eugene | December 17, 2006 09:12 PM

My apartment manager just called to say we finally have power. 4 days - almost to the hour - after it went out.

Posted by Adrienne at 01:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

No power = no heat, no light, no computer, no fridge, no Wii, and one unhappy camper.

Horrible infographic from Seattle City Light showing the areas without power in red

I find it particularly interesting that the most racially and economically diverse neighborhoods of Seattle just so happen to be the ones that don't have power yet. Of course, I'm sure this is just a coincidence...

Posted by Adrienne at 03:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Posted by Adrienne at 01:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hey Mr. Pinochet

You've sown a bitter crop

It's foreign money that supports you

One day the money's going to stop

No wages for your torturers

No budget for your guns

Can you think of your own mother

Dancing with her invisible son

Watch "They dance alone"

Posted by Adrienne at 11:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Breathing Earth
  watch the world's CO(2) use in real-time
  (tags: maps environment visualization reference infographics)

Posted by Adrienne at 08:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

OMG. LOL. WTF?

Posted by Adrienne at 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
  - 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth - 1% of the world's adults own 50% of the wealth - Sigh.
  (tags: inequity news united_nations wealth poverty)
• Wordie
  flickr without the photos - i'm not sure if this is working for me or not..
  (tags: words writing flickr_like web2.0ish)

Posted by Adrienne at 08:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service - New York Times
  Starting tomorrow, users will be able to upload photos and videos to a section of Yahoo called You Witness News (news.yahoo.com/page/youwitnessnews). All of the submissions will appear on Flickr or a similar site for video.
  (tags: technology mobile citizen_journalism media news nyt)
• Indie Collective
  indie shops for holiday gift-giving goodness...if you're so inclined, that is.
  (tags: gifts shopping indie diy design inspiration)

Posted by Adrienne at 08:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)