Beautiful bookstores

http://flavorwire.com/254434/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world

Iwaidja Ngabi Inyman from Bruce Birch on Vimeo.

Iwaidja is a highly endangered language of Northwestern Arnhem Land Australia. In this short film, Joy Williams Malwagag talks about how it feels when your language starts to disappear.

A great ad!

Parable of the unwelcome strangers

Parable of the unwelcome strangers - Eureka Street

A video of this famous feminist work

Andrew Harvey: Rumi scholar

The 'Malaysia' Solution?

Back to Flipping: INSIDE

Voki 2: With My Voice

Playing with VOKI: February 4 2011

This voice was mechanically produced from written text.

St Kilda Mural

This mural is protected by Bunjil, the eagle.

Its outspread wings span the top.

Nicholas Carr:The Shallows

In this interview, Nick discusses his new book "The Shallows"

and whether the Internet is making us trite.

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs

help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news,

bypassing censors (however briefly).

The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus will change the world

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" --

the shared, online (generous) work we do with our spare brain cycles.
While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats),
we're building a better, more cooperative world.

An ode in song

Professor Ian Lowe’s (President, ACF) absolute ripper of an ode to failing leadership on "the greatest moral issue of our time", thanks to http://www.live.org.au.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/08/ssw_20100807_1258.mp3

Kids welcome asylum seekers

To mark UK Refugee Week in June 2006, media co-op and Oxfam launched 'Primary', a video that brings a fresh perspective to the issue of asylum.



"Kids welcome asylum seekers. When will grown-ups catch up?"

Have your say: www.oxfam.org.uk/ukpovertypost

Nic and Bach at Hermannsburg

Autumn Ivy 2010

Blessed are the peacemakers

Tubwayhun lahwvday shlama dawnaw(hie) dalaha nitqarun. (The language is Aramaic.)

'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.'

All the major traditions that arose from the Middle East, that is, Jewish, Christian and Islamic have their roots in the same source, the same Mother Earth and probably from the same language. They are believed to have all originally called God either El or Al which means that the One or that One which expresses itself uniquely through all things. From this root arises the sacred names Allaha (aramaic) Allah (Arabic) Elohim (Hebrew), and Elat (Old Canaanite).

(Above translation from Prayers from the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas- Klotz.)

Making more room for women in the Church

Making more room for women in the Church - Eureka Street

An interview with American Benedictine nun, Joan Chittister...