From the article:

Mapuche tribal leaders have accused the U.S. company of violating their cultural and collective heritage by translating the software into Mapuzugun without their permission.

How many people have asked and asked for Microsoft to translate software into their language? About 400,000 speakers and the tribe leaders don’t want native translations. Go figure.

From this article.
“At the rate that technology is advancing, people will be implanting chips in our children to advertise directly into their brains and tell them what kind of products to buy,” Clinton said at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.

This is absurd. Not the wearing t-shirts, the price some people pay for them. This AJC article talks about how “trendy” t-shirts are now. But the best line is the last line:
“T-shirts are part of a lifestyle now,” Arshid said. “You’re not going to wear a $25 Urban Outfitters tee with your $250 jeans. You’re going to rock something with more of a limited edition feel to it.”

Answer these on your own site or leave it in the comments here.

LET’S BE HONEST NOW!!

In the last 24 Hours have you…

1. Had sex: yes
2. Bought something: yes
3. Gotten sick: no
4. Sang: no
5. Been kissed: yes
6. Ate something: yes
7. Felt stupid: no
8. Talked to an ex: no
9. Missed someone: yes

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Have You Ever…

1. Said “I Love You” and meant it: yes
2. Got in a fight with your pet: no
3. Been to California: yes
4. Been to Mexico: yes
5. Been to Canada: no
6. Been to Europe: yes
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Random…..

1. Do you have a crush on someone now: kind of
2. What book are you reading now: Darwin’s Radio
3. Worst feeling in the world: losing someone you love
4. Future KIDS names: not having any more
5. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal: no
6. What’s under your bed: bags of clothes and my dog
7. Favorite sports to watch: Football, racing
8. fav location: home
9. Piercing/Tattoos: yes, shark on left arm
10. Do you drink: yes
11. What are you most scared of: losing loved ones
12.Where do you want to get married: didn’t care
13. Who do you really dislike: certain types of people
14. Do you have a job: yes
15. Do you like being around people: yes, some people
16. Have you ever liked someone you had no chance with: yes
17. Have you ever been kissed in the rain: yes
18. Are you lonely right now: nope. especially after last night.
19. Song that’s stuck in your head a lot: varies. usually the last good song I heard
21. Played strip poker: yea
22. Ever been beaten up: yes
23. Done an all-nighter: yes
24. Been on radio/TV: not that I know of
25. Been in a mosh-pit: yes
26. Do you have any gay/lesbian friends: yes

Sky News
No fucking way!!

Below is the text of a letter to the editor of the AJC. I posted the whole text because things have a habbit of dissappearing of the AJC website. Original page.

Monied America lacks moral goodness

Congratulations, monied America: You wanted your gated communities to keep out the poor, to protect yourselves from crime, to separate yourselves from undesirables. You took the high roads and built your gated communities on them so you would stay dry and clean while the stormwaters of filth and despair flooded their neighborhoods.

You did it. You kept out the poor, you concentrated the crime in the poor neighborhoods, effectively ensuring those neighborhoods would remain poor and broken. You separated yourselves from the undesirables.

And then you left them, to die in attics and on rooftops and in the streets and in the disgusting halls of commerce and sports. The richest nation in the world is the most destitute when it comes to true moral goodness. God could not bless this America at all.

SAM MARIE ENGLE
Engle, of Atlanta, is director of the Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change and senior program associate in the Office of University-Community Partnerships at Emory University.

Well, what do you think?

Leave it to Neal to find something like this.