Great article on Alternet from By Emily Michele. “I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen’s Race Is For Money, Not Cure.” Read it here!

A small thing that looks like it might become a flower.

I came across the idea of squishy circuits. This is the use of conductive and non-conductive clay to create simple circuits. Here is the one on my todo list…

Here is my latest circuit bending project. This took a few weeks. It was originally a vtech phone (like this one minus a screen).

I used this schematic to help: http://asmo23.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/asmo-tiny-touch.pdf

A Social History of Dying takes the reader on a 2 million year journey and examines the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct.

I have just finished reading Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. Next up is A Social History of Dying, a clear departure from my recent Science Fiction reading. I’m very interested in this book. I am fascinated by the way we face dying and with the recent death of two grandparents that died very differently it will be an interesting exploration.

Articles about Occupy [enter city] and the homeless.

Occupy NOLA camp grows as the homeless arrive

Our reporters at the Occupy NOLA site say as many as 120 people have been staying there in the last few days. It is not clear how many of those people are avowed activists with the Occupy NOLA movement, or how many are simply members of the city’s homeless population who may frequent that public space

Dissenting, or Seeking Shelter? Homeless Stake a Claim at Protests

Nan Roman, president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said the demonstrators and the homeless have some shared interests. “Homeless people, I think, identify with Occupy because it’s about inequities,” she said. “And it’s another group that is trying to live outside. It’s not surprising that there’s a confluence here.”

Sparro Kennedy Fights For Occupy Wall Street’s Homeless, Mentally Ill

As Occupy Wall Street has grown, it has attracted its fair share of the chronically homeless who want to take part in the protests or who crave the food and camaraderie that hundreds of occupiers have brought to the park. Among that number are also many with special psychiatric, emotional or medical needs, Kennedy said. Some within the movement view them as troublemakers. These people, who have been marginalized in mainstream life, are being marginalized again here, Kennedy and others claim. This, she quipped, in a movement that purports to represent the 99 percent who have been victimized by American greed and all manner of corporate meanness.