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  1. “The human brain needs social contact like our lungs need air. Social needs are so basic that they drive family structures, religions, urban design, governments, economies and legal systems worldwide. We honor these needs even with pets and zoo animals, generally acknowledging the inhumanity of caging them for long periods of time alone or in tight spaces. New federal guidelines on the use of laboratory animals require relatively more space, sensory stimulation and environmental enrichment than we afford people in confinement. The revised rules put forth by the National Academy of Sciences call for significantly more square footage to house a head of cattle, for example, than prisons provide in solitary.”

    www.dartsocietyreports.org
    meljohnso

  2. “There’s something wrong with this. When your fancy handbag has been made by a child in China, you are not buying luxury, you are buying into a world of poverty and despair. The rate at which goods are being produced is unsustainable. The whole logomania fad paved the way for counterfeit goods — an enormous problem all over the world today. In Britain, so-called chavs even embraced obviously fake Burberry as their signature look. You may think that it is an innocent act to buy that $20 Louis V knockoff on Canal Street, but in reality, you are financing organized crime and human rights violations. In one part of the aforementioned book Thomas describes how counterfeiters in Thailand break children’s legs so that they will no longer want to go out and play and, in the end, can produce more fake bags.”

    www.goodlifer.com
    meljohnso

  3. “How do I know that my granddad was right? Why am I writing this blog post? I went to Starbucks at the start of the week, by the Bank of England and Nathan was not there. I walked 500 yards to the next vendor and I asked him “Hey, do you know where Nathan is – the guy who works outside of Starbucks”, his response will haunt me forever “Nathan froze to death last night”… We are now in 2012, it is unacceptable that this happens. There are countless reasons why someone is homeless. There are those that think some deserve it. Even if this is true, which I will always dispute, what someone can’t argue is the freezing to death of a 17 year old boy who simply had no hope is totally wrong. There are many things we do well but I am afraid looking after those that are vulnerable is something that we just do not get. Nathan didn’t need our money. He needed our time. He needed our love. He needed hope. I was told he froze to death but I am absolutely convinced that Nathan just gave up. He froze to death in a city whose riches knows no bounds. But more importantly, he froze to death in a packed city all alone. If I am right, and he did give up, who the fuck can blame him. ‘The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.’ Shame on us.”

    thenewsandme.wordpress.com
    meljohnso

  4. “Poverty of course plays a big role in both these issues because, as Juergen Voegele, director, agriculture and rural development, the World Bank, pointed out to Revkin: “We already have close to one billion people who go hungry today, not because there is not enough food in the world but because they cannot afford to buy it.” ”

    theatlantic.tumblr.com
    Zelnox

  5. “They live by values like happiness, authenticity, and transparency, which end up being a perfect way to market to consumers who don’t like to be marketed to.”

    techcrunch.com
    missrogue

  6. “Photographs like Moore, Marchand, and Meffre’s succeed, at least, in compelling us to ask the questions necessary to put this story together—Detroit’s story, but also the increasingly-familiar story of urban America in an era of prolonged economic crisis. That they themselves fail to do so testifies not only to the limitations of any still image, but our collective failure to imagine what Detroit’s future—our collective urban future—holds for us all”

    www.guernicamag.com
    protoslacker

  7. “I believe that the next step in this evolution will be the "connected portfolio," a set of projects that live not only within your own personal portfolio site but also on other galleries and networks around the web.”

    the99percent.com
    overthebreaks

  8. “As to the general texture of American life, well, one thing you don’t have is much sense of exhilaration or feeling that we’re on the brink of a “brave new world” as we did in the sixties. There’s a sort of a pulling back and also a sense that young people now are a pretty grim, hard working lot, the ones I can see. They’re family-oriented, and don’t really have the time to… think [laughs], sort of. Or at least to think radically. We’re in a holding pattern, and there is also the possibility that our position of number one has not been well used lately, and that the rise of China and India will eventually make us the kind of England of tomorrow. Anyway, that’s tomorrow. Hasn’t happened yet.”

    www.guernicamag.com
    meljohnso

  9. “As the cybernetician Stafford Beer once said to me: “If we can understand our children, we’re all screwed.””

    www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
    protoslacker

  10. “If you’re a web software engineer, the future is bright. Demand for good software and web engineers will outpace supply for years to come. We’re in a digital economy. There are hundreds if not thousands of markets that need to be reinvented using the new web, social, gaming and mobile paradigms. Companies large and small need to reinvent their business. There will be opportunities in startups, large web companies and traditional companies that can’t afford to let the web pass them by. As a web engineer, don’t be afraid to try the startup experience as you should be able to find a great job quickly if it doesn’t work out. Get involved in the open source community and stay current with the new technologies. Compensation should go up relative to other professions.”

    www.jscournoyer.com
    arach