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Dashrath ManjhiDashrath Manjhi (1934 – August 17, 2007) was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village near Gaya in Bihar, India. He is also known as Mountain Man. Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 kilometres (43 mi) away from their village in Bihar, India. Manjhi did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a path 360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut, 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km, bringing him national acclaim. He died on August 17, 2007.[8] He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar. |
It puts my petty struggles to get things done into perspective.
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Ok, so I found out today that I won an iPad. But Apple are evil. They peddle an elitist, monopolist agenda while projecting a sweet techo-hippy image. And tablets in general seem geared too much towards consumption; excellent devices for browsing and shopping, but not for any kind of detailed or nuanced communication.
So do I...
- Suck it up and join the group-think?
- Trade it in for an Android tablet?
- Sell it and put the money into the Minecraft server?
- Sell it and buy a better phone?
I suspect inertia will win the day.
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The right-wing National Liberty Federation (not Foundation), a Florida group associated with the Tea Party movement, actually used an image from the game Bioshock Infinite, meant to parody their own xenophobic ideology, on their Facebook page.
Presumably they’ve realised their gaff by now as previous links to the image now give a Facebook “Content unavailable” messge.
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AM - 18/12/2013: Diamond rock discovered in Antarctica abc.net.au/am
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Oh, so it’s all up for Antarctica then.
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Tim Wilson appointed Human Rights Commissioner 17/12/2013 abc.net.au/worldtoday
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Of course it makes perfect sense to appoint as Human Rights Commissioner an advocate from a stink tank that has championed the abolition of the Human Rights Commission.
If you find human rights inconvenient that is.
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Did this already do the rounds? Am I getting senile?
What he has to say about false dichotomies certainly rings true. We seem obsessed with dividing everything into two opposing factions, which, while it might be a useful form of rhetoric or way of investigating an idea sometimes, bears no relation at all to the messy, complicated way the world actually works.
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This new “Similar To” business is starting to irritate me. Just because I thought a fake magazine cover poking fun at Tony Abbott was funny doesn’t mean I want to see Peter Garrett’s face.
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Think I have the book this was developed from somewhere. At first it seems facile, but it’s actually a perfect metaphor for depression.
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store.steampowered.com
SteamOS will be available to download on December 13th
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And then there were three. Can Valve compete with Microsoft and Sony? This will be interesting.
I’m very curious about the hardware, though the Verge article only gives hints. The size and cooling sound like just the thing for upgrading the media PC in the loungeroom. I wonder if we’ll see the cases or custom non-SteamOS boxes. Will MythTV ever run in SteamOS?
It’s all intriguing, but not solving any of my current woes.
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Future Tense can be a bit light-weight at times, but there were some interesting and pertinent points in this one.
Maybe we should all be doing a bit more POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).