Weapon of mass cutestruction sirmitchell: I would have made the Empire unstoppable. Starting with an AT-AT redesign. What person would want to take this adorable vehicle of mass death down?  Available as a shirt at SirMitchell.com (but they won’t ship for at least a week.) “CAT-CAT” by Mike Mitchell

Weapon of mass cutestruction

sirmitchell:

I would have made the Empire unstoppable. Starting with an AT-AT redesign. What person would want to take this adorable vehicle of mass death down? 

Available as a shirt at SirMitchell.com (but they won’t ship for at least a week.)

“CAT-CAT” by Mike Mitchell

(Reblogged from sirmitchell)

charity:water

My birthday’s coming up!

Those of you who know me well know that I don’t like physical gifts. I try to live simply, with a minimum of personal possessions. I do enjoy certain types of gifts, like dinners with friends and other shared experiences. 

But this year, I’m asking you to instead donate to a new charity that’s doing some great work bringing clean water to the poorest people of the world.

It’s amazing how little it costs to drill a new well in one of these communities and bring clean drinking water for decades to come. This is the absolute foundation for good health and a better life.

We’re all very lucky to live in a time and place where the infrastructure for a good life predates our existence. A child born into extreme poverty has no choice in the matter. Let’s share a small bit of our wealth with those kids.

I’m turning 35 this year, so please consider a gift of $35 (or more) to this great cause. Just $20 can give one person clean water for 20 years.

Here’s the link to pool our donations together

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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Michael Bakunin
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If you can live without it, perhaps you should.
Matt Olson
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A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires; Where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and contemplate; There we enter the realm of art and science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; If we show it in forms whose relationships are not accessible to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art. Common to both is the devotion to something beyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary.
Albert Einstein

This check-in stuff is nonsense

What are we, children?

All these game mechanics built into the latest crop of location based services are dreamt up by a few people sitting around trying to figure out how to manipulate us into giving them a constant data stream on our daily activities.

From a user perspective, I resent the condescension inherent in the approach. And from a business perspective, I don’t believe they are building anything of real value, unless it’s their intention to sell their users out to the highest bidder (which of course it is).

Who will get that data, Facebook or Google? My bet’s on Google.