This is a link that I found last year, but since it’s fall again, the penguins are back.
It’s actually a very nerdy link. I found out about it because they’re Gentoo penguins and there was a link to it on the Gentoo Linux site. (Dactyl runs gentoo.)
this weather sucks. worse yet is that my car won’t get into the shop until thursday. i’m taking a chance and driving it in tomorrow, because i can’t stand being home any longer, and i need to do a few things around campus. i also need to get some work done.
meanwhile, i’m getting twitchy about power, because i’ve noticed the lights dimming briefly a number of times throughout the evening, and from time to time the cable cuts out.
In honor of the late Rosa Parks, I’ll take the liberty of making a post to direct our readers to some of the words left to us by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you’ve never read it before, you absolutely should read Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Heck, go read it again, even if you’ve read it before.
Also, those interested in hearing the man speak should check out American Rhetoric, a great Internet archive of important speeches, both text and audio. Here’s the page where you can download and mp3 of “I Have a Dream…”
I’m not ready for this slush shit.
I was just randomly browsing around when I came across this picture. Really, would it have been that much work to get people’s faces in the picture? Or is the point simply to see how may boobs you can get centered?
And for those of you who are single, sorry, I don’t remember who’s profile the picture came from.
I know I can’t do any justice to her courage, legacy, and true heroism, so instead I’ll just point to a few links, Yahoo and the BBC.
(1) I like this quote…
Democratic Congressman John Conyers, from whom she worked in Detroit from 1965 until she retired in 1988, described her as “an almost saint-like person”.
“She was very humble, she was soft-spoken, but inside she had a determination that was quite fierce.”
(2) It’s positively ridiculous that it took until 1996(!) for her to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
