Ethical Thought

Our campus, like many others, was deeply moved by what happened in Virginia.

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Google Earth and the US Holocaust Museum team up

“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth. ”

This is an amazing partnership that will help cast additional light on the issue. I strongly encourage you to take a look and see for yourself.

NPR: Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! [NPR]

NPR’s weekly current events quiz. Have a laugh and test your news knowledge while figuring out what’s real and what we’ve made up. Visit this podcast’s Web site

KPBS A Way with Words [KPBS]

Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett host A Way with Words, a romp through the English language. Call with your questions and observations: (877) 929-WORD or email us at words@kpbs.org. Produced at KPBS in San Diego. Visit this podcast’s Web site

Speaking of Faith [APM]

Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio’s conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

I guess this is a good thing but why not address obesity and global warming too? I am getting synical but this seems as much marketing to trends as an urge to goodwill.

“Burger King Shifts Policy on Animals

By ANDREW MARTIN

Published: March 28, 2007

In what animal welfare advocates are describing as a “historic advance,” Burger King, the world’s second-largest hamburger chain, said yesterday that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that did not confine their animals in cages and crates.”

This is an excellent resource. I keep it in my knitting bag because I love the help it can provide me when I need it. It explains all those little things that I am too embarrassed to ask. It is small and light too which is very helpful.

I thought that I would share one of my favorite knitting places on the web. Knitting Haven. It is a useful site with lots of tips but I really like it because of the fun people there. In the Parlor, the online forum, people are genuinely kind and helpful. It is a forum I really enjoy looking at!

It is a great place to sit down with a cup of coffee and see what’s up. Although many of the folk there seem to prefer Tea, but they are nice any way.