the *really* good things in life are *sometimes* free

New Yorkers: Best coffee in the world is free this week, 12/7 - 12/13, only.

The Reverend Billy Talen from the Church of Life After Shopping:
"You stop shopping, but start giving. That's what the holidays are for. The good way to do that is to find your gift locally. Walk to your gift this year and buy it there. Buy it from an independent shop on your main street, in your neighborhood, in your community. Local shopping is... a sustainable economy."
Today, please join me, Adbusters, the Reverend Billy Talen and the Church of Life After Shopping, and others across the world in reclaiming our souls from the capitalist/consumerist/corporatist spectacle through the simple defiant non-action of not buying anything. The Buy Nothing Day TV spot by Adbusters was rejected by MTV, ABC, and CTV. Listening to the rejection calls are telling.
"Suck it up! It's the real world!... We sell time for many different things but not issues of public importance."TV doesn't like controversy. Its job is to keep you watching, docile and receptive, and to keep you, above all else, buying. Reflection, thought, and questioning are its enemies.
(V, or YET ANOTHER REASON TO HATE PARTY OF FIVE.)
It's unfortunate that so few things are made to last these days. And when I find something that is well made, I am loathe to part with it.
Well, it took some fidgeting but I finally got Google App Engine 1.0.2 SDK working under MacPorts by first uninstalling my previous version of Python 2.5 and then re-installing with the socket-ssl package.