Anonymous and Mexico's Zeta Cartel

One of Anonymous' members have supposedly been kidnapped by the Zeta Cartel and Anonymous is threatening to release information on all paid informants, police, government officials, etc, if their member is not released by Nov 5th. I think they should release the information regardless of what happens.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1102/Showdown-looms-between-Anonymous-hackers-and-Mexico-s-Zeta-cartel

US Income Quintiles

Information from the Congressional Budget Office on how much incomes have changed over the past 28 years. Everyone is down except for the top quintile. The top 1% saw an average increase in their incomes of 275%.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/26/1030179/-Income-for-top-one-percent-grew-by-275-percent-in-the-past-28-years?detail=hide&via=blog_1

Occupy Wall Street vs Tea Party

Fun graphic contrasting the two movements. Seems about right on to me.

http://yfrog.com/nub9jhuj

Ignorance Gap?

CSM is always challenging everyone. They even reference Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" which read many years ago. Need to keep an open mind so can maintain being as effectual as possible. Things are always changing and standing rigid may not serve oneself nor others best interests.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2011/1020/Class-warfare-What-about-the-ignorance-gap

Chitchat Matters

CSM is always questioning the increased role of technology in our culture.
What do we sacrifice with all these supposed productivity gains?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/1014/Where-have-all-the-people-gone

3D Chalk Drawings

Have seen these in the past. Here are some new ones. Hope to see some in person some day.

http://visualfunhouse.com/index.php?s=julian+beaver

Steve Jobs

Can we escape the obligatory reference to Steve Jobs? Found one comment by Richard Stallman of the open source movement I thought might be appropriate. I've never given any money to the Apple conglomerate myself. If I did am sure the amount I'd have been giving would have been substantial since they seem to find a way to make their users pay for most everything.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/10/1227229/richard-stallmans-dissenting-view-of-steve-jobs