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Nextdoor Offers Private Social Networks for Neighborhoods – NYTimes.com

Nextdoor Offers Private Social Networks for Neighborhoods – NYTimes.com

The San Francisco company on Wednesday is opening a social networking site for neighborhoods so that anyone can create a private online community, where members can recommend a plumber, offer up a lawn mower for sale and vent about a barking dog plaguing the block.

I could see this being not only useful but also a good way to get people to actually meet their neighbors.

The funny thing about vampires…

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to lore, they have to be invited in. Within the sacred space of your home, they can not harm you. They can not suck one drop of your precious life-giving blood unless you open the door and invite them past your threshold. If your time, your attention, and your purpose are not the very essence of what life is, then what is? If where you commit your time, attention, and purpose is not sacred space, then why isn’t it? And if those items that seek to take from those things are not vampires, then what are they? Most importantly, why are you inviting them in?

Jon Bon Jovi opens “pay what you can” restaurant in New Jersey, helps hungry locals who are livin’ on a prayer – Boing Boing

Jon Bon Jovi opens “pay what you can” restaurant in New Jersey, helps hungry locals who are livin’ on a prayer – Boing Boing

Soul Kitchen is a new restaurant opened in Red Bank, New Jersey, by Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea. The establishment offers a “pay what you can afford” payment model, and serves wholesome, gourmet food made with fresh ingredients grown in the restaurant’s garden, and other local produce.

I’d say this is quite a bit more than half way there.