White House Petition of the Day: Make Legislators Wear Logos of Corporate Backers
The latest brilliant idea to come out of We The People website is this petition suggesting that lawmakers should be required to be more transparent about their financial backers by wearing logos of their corporate “sponsors,” just like the NASCAR drivers do. As of Thursday evening, it has accrued more than 9,000 of the 100,000 signatures it needs to be formally addressed by the White House. GOOD magazine previously explored this idea with photoshopped mockups of New York Senator Charles Schumer and Florida Senator Marco Rubio donning logo patches of their contributors on their suits.
Hat tip goes to Dangerous Minds.
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This is how we cut Africa.
Africa, circa 1912
Half a century before the Nile Hilton, and when aviation was in its infancy, the great powers often measured their status through the colonies they held. See the country key in the lower left corner of the map.
The victorious great powers greedily scooped up Germany’s colonies after World War 1 and getting them back was on Hitler’s ‘to-do’ list.
from: Hammond’s Handy Atlas of the World; 1912; CS Hammond and Co, New York.
Reasons to hate #Tumblr No. 1…
Who is this and what is happening?
L’affaire pasta démontre que l’OQLF est au moins cent fois trop sensible à la question de l’accès au service en français. Pour corriger cela, j’aimerais proposer qu’un nouveau seuil d’intervention soit établi : au lieu d’intervenir/harceler suite à une seule plainte, pourquoi pas *cent* plaintes ? Même les plus petites entreprises accueillent des milliers de visiteurs chaque mois, donc s’il y a un vrai problème à régler, il sera toujours rapidement identifié.
#Detroit : A manual for citizens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/locaburg #graphics #vintage
(via savage-america)
Hmmm I think I’ll take the bus to work…
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It’s Australia Day! A good opportunity to look at what makes Straya special and different from New Zealand.