“I WAS ATTACKED AT L’ENFANT METRO SUNDAY AT 7:15 PM. NO ONE HELPED. PLEASE BE CAREFUL.”

This is horrible.

“I know it might not be safe, yet it’s either we live together, or we die together, we are all Egyptians...”

(via questioneye.wordpress.com)

I've just read about the Egyptian Muslims who acted as "human shields" to protect the Coptic minority's Christmas Eve Mass.  The way the Egyptian people are talking gives me a lot of hope for the future of the global community. english.ahram.org.eg

Interactive Census Coolness

Check out this interactive census map from The New York Times. NYTimes.com

"If you compound our growth rate, we'll be the size of Citibank in three years."

Peer-to-Peer lenders, like LendingClub.com and Prosper.com, might change my mind about where this cold uncaring world is headed. Imagine, people helping and trusting other people! Earning a 10% return doing it ain't bad either. The types of loans that, one lender found, defaulted the least is particularly interesting. abcnews.com

Exercises in Futility: Brave New Girl

Office job by ed7in5 via Creattica.com

Exercises in Futility is the working-out of the story of the last 3, or so, years of my life. A lot has happened: I moved over 300 miles away from my family for a new job that ended horribly, redefined myself as a person, fell in love for the first time (with that person turning out to the "the one"), and learned some hard life lessons that have shown me what is really important in this life. And if I stayed out all night, more than I should have, and met some fantastic, crazy new friends on my journey there, so be it! Let's listen in, shall we? Continued from Exercises in Futility: The Backstory 

For three weeks I worked hard and, more importantly, fell in love with Denver. The Mile High City was full of “my kind”. The beginning of my second week there, my brother asked one of his army buddies, Mick Slash,  to show me the city and get me out of my hotel room for a couple of hours. I can still remember how foreign and magical the, now so familiar, metropolis seemed as we merged onto the freeway.

Underwater sculpture park!?

Check out this National Geographic report on an underwater art installation designed to provide relief to the tourist-stressed natural reefs of the Caribbean.

Ahhhh so freakin cool!

A renaissance church in Naples, Italy has a secret coded concert for strings engraved on it's  stone front!