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Maybe it’s time to own a different picture of your world?

I’d say high past time.

Ordinarily a word so odd, so distinctive from others, wouldn’t be allowed in a language to begin with.

(via Coudal)

“No other capital city in any country that claims to be a democracy disenfranchises, strips its residents of its capital city (like Brasilia or London) of the right to vote for representatives in their Parliaments. Only the District of Columbia remains a colony.” How could it be that in the “21st century [the] District of Columbia still has the rights that a lot of Americans got in the 18th century under our Constitution?” asked Nader. “[Congress can] control its budget, distort its budget, overrule referenda that the voters of the District have passed, and in a variety of ways make the District taxpayers pay for all kinds of federal expenses.”

It’s true. A lot of people don’t realize that the people who live in The District do not enjoy the same representative democracy that the rest of the nation does. Now that you do you should talk to your Senators and Representatives and ask them to change that. It’s the American thing to do.

I was not quite sure of this article when it first came out. I was not sure what bothered me so much about it. Perhaps it was the clearly sensationalist headline paired with copy that otherwise was well tread before. Perhaps it was the fact that its opening salvo in support of the headline is dashed and dispelled by the end. Still not sure I see the point or why it matters.

So why am I linking it? Because it is the schizophrenia of the piece that made it interesting enough for me to keep going back to read it over the past year.

A beautiful post from Leo that is blossomed from the core of Buddhist philosophy. Namaste.

While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.

I find historical factoids like this fascinating. I find the evolution of language more so.

Total Braingasm.

Mentors do not have to be beyond a certain birthday to nurture and encourage those who are younger. Mentorship is an attitude of life, not a badge of the aged. In this vein, I am weary of people complaining about a “lack of mentors” in society. If you can read this, you are pretty much guaranteed that there is someone younger than you that could befriend, support, and encourage.

Wow. Some powerful food for thought here. Especially for someone of my age/experience.

The story behind one of my favorite usernames on Twitter.

So make titles useful. Write them for humans, not search engine spiders. Putting SEO keywords in the page title (a) doesn’t actually help your page’s rank in search engine indexes, and (b) makes things harder for people trying to tweet a link, bookmark your page, or scan it from a list of currently open windows and tabs in their browser.

The Chairman speaks the truth. Most of my sites are guilty as well. Plan to change that forthwith. 

To recap:

1. write something down
2. do something about it

The only productivity tip you will ever need.