Timely, wise words of caution from Noam Chomsky…
(further to my post yesterday, with some type mixed in…)
Winnipeg, Canada
It’s been a while since I’ve sported a moustache… so this should be fun. Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in Canada and around the world, during the month of November.
With their “Mo’s,” these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer. On Movember 1st, guys register at Movember.com with a clean-shaven face. For the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts. Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November. Through their actions and words, they raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men’s health.
At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valor by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Partés held around the world by Movember, for Movember.
(source: United Nations)
We hit that expected marker this past weekend. Our species now numbers 7 billion human souls. For more “up-to-the-second” metrics, visit worldometers.
Rørøs, Norway
I was honored last week to be invited to give a talk at EDIT 2011 : DIG “Norway’s biggest design conference” in the historic copper-mining town of Røros (where the 3,640 or so modern-day inhabitants still work and live in the characteristic 17th and 18th century buildings, which have led to the town’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
EDIT 2011 : DIG is organized by Grafill, the Norwegian Organisation for Visual Communication. Although I could only stay for the first day of the event, I was very impressed with the quality of organization and the friendliness of the good people I met…
Photos of the event can be viewed here.
—G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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…for some new glasses and a Movember moustache…
—Henrik Ibsen, (1828-1906)
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There seems to be little doubt that the “golden era” of predatory lending, usury, market manipulations, and unimpeded profiteering by hedge fund managers, private equity chiefs, financiers, and opportunistic robber-baron-corporations is rapidly drawing to a close… what will be interesting to observe is just how the fall will manifest itself. The times they are a’changin indeed…
New York… and spreading.
It’s great to see young women at the forefront of the “occupy” movement—this gives me hope for meaningful outcomes…
The “Wall Street GREED is stealing our future” t-shirt is by friend Mirko Ilić.
