Down The Rabbit Hole

Great website...  I like how clicking on “Act” makes it very easy to choose a clearly defined and immediate way to act.

Here’s another link you can check out:    My previous post on gun violence

And read on for some more info and links after the break... of course, after you check out the #ThrowThemOut campaign!

Some of the recent posts and articles I’ve come across on the subject.... 

A pro-gun troll just came for Seth MacFarlane, and Seth fired back

What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer

How to Prevent Gun Deaths? Where Experts and the Public Agree

Our Loved Ones Died. We Want Action on Guns (video)

How to Reduce Shootings

Came across the articles below when reading the A/V post:  An emotional Jimmy Kimmel responds to another mass shooting, telling the GOP, “You’ve done worse than nothing”...  not familiar with these websites/blogs but they seemed worth taking a look:

Guns In America And The US Military Industrial Complex America Wasn’t a “Gun-Loving Country” Until a $13.5 Billion Industry Made It So

Don’t forget to #ThrowThemOut!

Sick of leaders doing nothing to fight gun violence? So are we. Let’s work together and #ThrowThemOut: http://every.tw/2sAcIwT

Thermal Detonator from Return of the Jedi

Why You Should Care How I Learn: Eric Smalls at TEDxStanford

Eric Smalls is a sophomore at Stanford studying computer science. In 2012, President Barack Obama featured Smalls in a campaign video about the importance of...

Pen addiction

Read more over at Flickr

Talk about timing...

It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.

Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.

Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?

----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----

"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

and

"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."

For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist

More Congressional Fail: Elected Officials Think They Are Underpaid

(follow-up to Huffington Post piece-- read comments!)

absolutely outrageous...  

Download Humorous Vector Badges - for Designers.

Ive noticed lately that all designers have the same thoughts, loves and pet hates about desig...

The Digital Media Transition: Redefining the American Media Landscape

http://io9.com/watch-classical-paintings-come-alive-in-beauty-1503708585

Creepy and beautiful

#Future

Is the Future Out of Date?  via Plexus Institute

Why the Cost of Living Is Poised to Plummet in the Next 20 Years via Singularity Hub