How the World Might Look If We Run Out of Water - Hexagonal

Someone better work on implementing the beautiful Hexagonal Hydropolis city project. Pronto. One, because there's plenty of land in the desert. Two, because I'd like to dress up in a Fremen stillsuit. And three, because inside it's amazingly pretty too:

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The Dune Playsets Lego Never Made

Wish your childhood involved Lego playsets depicting the sandy deserts of Arrakis? Now you can enjoy the childhood toy that never was thanks to two Lego fans with a penchant for building Fremen and sandworms.

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United We Stand

I'm writing this in response to the posts that I read on three forums and several blogs and websites. We have a demonstrated capacity to exercise our freedom to express ourselves in this and other countries. What I have seen is everything from sycophantic regurgitation of talking points ("oh look at me, see how cleverly I can fit in") to truly mind

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A Note from the Past (Which Repeats Until We Change)

I have just been introduced to Charley Reese by way of an article he wrote in the eighties for his column in the Orlando Sentinel. He is retired now, but some of his writing - especially said article - lives on through the internet in various incarnations. As many of you know, I am a strong advocate for We the People taking back the power of our

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Violence As Pertaining to the Gun

I have a sudden and physical reaction to violence. It has gotten to the point that I have a harder and harder time watching even sensationalised Hollywood violence. Violence touches everyone in our society down to the intimate inner dialog that tells us we aren't good enough. Escalation of violence follows an insidious road of power struggles in

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Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Chance for Peace

I have a lot of respect for warriors, and even more respect for warriors who move on in life, obviously culling wisdom from their experience with war. I feel like it is paramount that human beings stop buying into the idea that war is inevitable or natural or judicious in any way.

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Public Schools: Entry-Level Indoctrination into the Nanny

Think about it for a minute: a society that takes its children away from parents and family and concentrates them into a building with other children. A concentration camp. Then, the children begin the methodical, thirteen-year progressive indoctrination, carefully planned by institutes of education that conduct "studies" on human

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Oil and the Media

I have been interested in following AP reports for four years. I have found in that time that there is little evidence of investigation in the reports from this news service, and I suspect it of disseminating propaganda, bias at best. Take, for example, this article:Crude oil is getting cheaper — so why isn't gas?

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Nonviolent Communication

I have been studying nonviolent communication for several months.I stumbled across a video interview of the developer, Marshall Rosenberg, speaking about using his techniques in Palestine acting as intermediary during a demonstration of nonviolent communication. I was amazed at the straightforward and almost unenthusiastic way he described the

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WTO and Beyond

I was living in Seattle in November of 1999. I walked downtown occasionally to partake of the atmosphere surrounding the WTO Ministry meeting and discussing the trade policies that would shape the future of trade worldwide.The emotional and physical tsunami that rose to utterly reject and repel this event in principal was palpable and its

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