How are we all this morning? How has the week been? I've been super busy with a crazy week at work (I've a new trainee), getting excited about being published and wrote one of my most-read articles on an encounter at the airport. Enough about what I did though...here is what I came across on the net!
I love this piece by the Informed Comment: Top Ten Reasons why Terrorism is Forbidden in Islamic Law...
From the simple dollar: 5 pieces of advice that changed my life.
Young people need to be more involved in all levels of decision making in society; even though public and corporate decisions usually affect us we are rarely party to the decision making process. That should change, and one way is by getting young people on Boards.
I completely relate to this writer - the love of technology mixed with nostalgia for print (I was an insane bookworm growing up and still feel guilty that I own a Kindle...I feel like I am betraying print) and it's interesting to read this piece from a lady who says her life is better without Facebook. I don't know if I could leave Facebook (isn't that a sad state of affairs!) - working out in the sticks doesn't help I guess...
Feel like you have media overload? A piece from Wired on balancing your media diet...
Why aren't there more women in technology? Forbes thinks it's a numbers and expectations game...
On one hand, the Boston bombing reaction reporting seemed relatively free of bias...but that was definitely not the case.
Regardless of your views of justification and intent: whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Whatever sadness you feel for yesterday's victims, the same level of sadness is warranted for the innocent people whose lives are ended by American bombs. However profound a loss you recognize the parents and family members of these victims to have suffered, that's the same loss experienced by victims of US violence. It's natural that it won't be felt as intensely when the victims are far away and mostly invisible, but applying these reactions to those acts of US aggression would go a long way toward better understanding what they are and the outcomes they generate.
A post (a rant, really) from an irate Sudanese blogger who is frustrated at the fact that in Sudan, skin colour is still an indication of status...
I don't agree with everything the United Nations does, but I do believe there is a place for it. Why we get value for money at the United Nations.
I love examples of Muslim women challenging the expectations, and this Bosnian Mayor is a inspirational case!
The difference in treatment and expectations of male and female CEOs - Queen Bees getting the flak.
The age old question about "peak oil..."
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday (and the Formula 1 and MotoGP!)