The Perambulator

Welcome to my Weekly Stumble Report wherein I collect and categorize interesting links found using the StumbleUpon social networking tool.

Spirituality
We’ll start with a couple excellent images of the Buddha. The first is a blue Buddha on a blue background. The other is the Leshan Buddha, a huge sandstone sculpture.

Next up is a fascinating and erudite article about the history of Sufism in the Balkans.

Finally, a delightful, if not disturbing, look at a Puppeteer populating another planet.

Music

Nneka has a myspace page here with music, lyrics, and biographical info.

Here is a flash animation, cheesy, but good for a moment’s entertainment. File it under “feel-good”.

Computer and Internet
Sun plugin gives MS Office users ODF support You might want this to make your Microsoft Word compatible with 21st century documents. And here, Tectonic reports “…people out on the street over document standards!“

10 Linux Commands. Find PIDs, shortcuts for command execution, and more.

Can computers get any smaller? University of Glasgow breakthrough in Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods, electronics.

Here is a fun and easy project courtesy of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - How to make a Sawed-off USB Key Amusing and creative. Have a look.

For a truly revolutionary use of computer drive bays, check out this 5.25 inch drive bay toaster.

Got Virgin ISP? Cancel it. Response to net neutrality fiasco in the UK.

How to test and improve your websites. 6 Hot Tips For Successful Split Testing

Life and Living
Things I need to tell my teenaged daughters about boys. “Under no circumstances are males to be trusted. They can be controlled for brief periods during which they are safe. But then they must be either released into the wild or neutered. Domestication is not possible. Under the proper conditions, any male will return to his natural illogical, biologically unrestrained state.“

Great Ways to Say I Love You

Seattle teacher fired for refusing to administer standardized test.

A van dwelling hobo stripper. This is sure to become my favorite blog.

Fun and Games

Hand Stand (Urdva Mukka Vrksasana)

My favorite link of the week combining two of my loves, flowers and Scrabble.

Sky Islands of North America, this site makes me yearn for the Southwest. I belong to the sky islands.

Lakota events at Kiza Park on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Technology
Craziest Green Technologies - From solar cell phones to solar backpacks, a short selection of green gadgetry.

German Company Readies Kite-Powered Freighter. Great video of this technology in action.

Food and Agriculture
More coverage of the urban gardening entrepeneurs in Portland, Oregon. Turn Your Urban Backyard Into a Farm

My own recipe for delicious sesame basil asparagus. Yum. Asparagus with Basil, Garlic, and Sesame

I can imagine having a little patch of grains in my yard. The old 60 by 60 lot would barely put me in bread but I might be able to get a couple bowls of buckwheat groats. Possibly double crop with oats.  Growing Buckwheat

Slow Food International “Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.”

Housing
Earthbag Building. Here are a dozen or so examples.

Build one of these stoves to keep your earthbag mansion warm. Masonry Heater Gallery

Add in a Natural Swimming Pool to finish up the estate.

Health
Fresh fruit appears to mitigate mercury poisoning. Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon

BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles

Hair of the dog good for kids. You can keep your kids too clean.

Food Crisis
Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt Mud Cakes

Food Prices Continue to Increase: Prices Increase as Worlds Food Supplies Drop

Hardy Plant May Ease Biofuels Burden on Food Costs

The food crisis also affects wealthy nations. Shortages and price increases in Japan.

CARE :: Defending Diginity. Fighting Poverty. Great site for food crisis info. Must read article here: CARE and Oxfam call for fundamental changes in tackling global hunger

Meanwhile, while America starves, the dumpster divers are well fed.

And of course, Cuba long ago had it’s own food crisis and solved it. Cuba Agriculture Information

Politics

SOS Quebec - A childrens gulag. Corruption and collusion in the Quebec child protection services.

Free the K.I. 6 Canadian aborigines excluded from mineral exploration consultation on their own land.

News You Can Lose Decent article and comments about the American election process and new media.