Robin Good: Curate Favorite Web Destinations Visually with Wibki

Advanced Cyber/IO
Robin Good
Robin Good

Wibki is a free web app which allows you to easily organize a series of visual “start pages” from which to access your favorite web sites, resources and apps. Wibki does an excellent job of making it very easy to add and edit new sites to your visual start pages, and it automatically fetches the logo of each one. You can create as many “start pages” (or tabs) as you like, so that you can keep your favorite web sites organized into different thematic categories. Individual cells can be easily edited, removed or dragged nto different positions.

My comments: An excellent tool to keep and organize in a handy way your favorite web sites. The web site icons and the simple and clean organization make this apparently simple visual bookmarking tool a very effective start page builder and web destinations manager. Free to use. In private beta. Request your invitation here: http://www.wibki.com/ Read also the story behind Wibki here: http://www.wibki.com/blog/say-hi-to-wibki-the-future-of-browsing/ Related sites: www.startme.com

Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on Why the Higher Education System is Doomed

04 Education, 11 Society
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

Why the Higher Education System Is Unsustainable (i.e. Doomed) 

Higher education is a self-serving cartel that is failing students, the economy and the nation.

That which is unaffordable is unsustainable and will go away. The current system of higher education is profoundly unaffordable: it exists on an immoral foundation of student debt–$560 billion of which is Federal. Enormous expansions of student debt are required to keep the current system of higher education afloat. This chart shows the insane trajectory of Federal student debt:

 

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Babette Bensoussan: The Pretenders of Strategic Planning

Commercial Intelligence
Babette Bensoussan
Babette Bensoussan

Mutters – The Pretenders of Strategic Planning

Have you heard….
“Strategy is a waste of time.”
“The agenda is just like last year where we achieved nothing.”
“We got no real direction, and nothing we agreed was ever implemented afterwards”.

Sound familiar?  The typical company strategy planning process involves a few days at a remote retreat where delegates pretend to listen to reviews of last year’s plans and performance and lists of next year’s goals.  Delegates use the time to read emails, tweet to friends on phones, laptops or iPads or leave the room for “urgent” matters.  Everyone has totally switched off.

At the end of 2 days of presentations or questions and answers, everyone pretends that “strategy has been done” for the year.  The CEO ticks off “strategy planning” as completed.  People comment on the venue and food whilst organisers are pleased that everything ran smoothly – even though no strategy has actually been developed.

It seems everyone is a pretender – delegates, the leaders and the facilitators.

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David Swanson: Harvey Wasserman on Fukushima’s Coming Mega Meltdown

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
David Swanson
David Swanson

The Crisis at Fukushima 4 Demands a Global Take-Over

By Harvey Wasserman, WarIsACrime.org

We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.

Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), says that within as few as 60 days it may begin trying to remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down in the next earthquake, if not on its own.

Some 400 tons of fuel in that pool could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.

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Owl: Not All [Navy Yard] Nuts are Nuts

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Who?  Who?
Who? Who?

Not All Nuts are Nuts

The Navy Yard shooter could have been relatively sane in the past, but driven insane later, if there is any validity to his filings with the Rhode Island police. If so, what were the objectives of those who tormented him?
“Officials involved in the investigation of the Navy Yard shooting, have come forward with new insights on the weapon that was used in the shooting. Alexis had carved the words ‘My ELF weapon’ on his Remington 870-Express-Tactical shotgun. ELF stands for ‘extremely low frequency’, and usually refers to communications or weather. For those who are familiar with this technology, it is well understood that this is used in programs such as H.A.A.R.P. It has also been reported by several government whistle blowers, and even political activists that they suspected a ‘ELF weapon’ was being used on them. The report about the carvings is most interesting, because it seems to confirm the claim made by Alexis that 3 men were following him using an ELF weapon while he was in his hotel room. He even filed a report to the Newport, Rhode Island Police stating these claims. Aaron stated he had to change his hotel 3 different times because these people were using the microwave machine on him.”
Last night, a reporter on NBC's “Nightly News” admitted to the the existence of the ELF carvings on the Navy Yard shooters gun. The reporter, who seemed to be genuinely sincere, professed complete ignorance on what the the letters “ELF” meant. This reporter from a mainstream news organization is like most of them, and knowing nothing about perfectly true and valid information appearing in so-called “alternative media.”
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Aaron Alexis Carved ‘My ELF Weapon’ on the Stock of his Shotgun

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