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Let's be honest, some statues just beg for it.

The Golem from the episode 'Kaddish' - looking for vengeance…

Pretty awful drawing. I need to try harder.

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Forget traditional means, these are the days when out of the box ideas can actually rake in a pretty good amount of money. Here's a list of money-making ideas which you wouldn't believe work just fine.

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It makes us wonder how far would the go for attention.

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Are they fooling anyone?

Alien-human-hybrid Kids harvesting honey in their little obscure experimental community, as seen in the episode 'Herrenvolk' (German for “Master Race”). The girl is a clone based on Mulder’s sister, which was abducted by aliens (or was she…?) at that age. This was pretty strange.

So, one web project that's been simmering on the prefrontal stove is an online political campaign management platform. http://www.labourstart.org/ does a bit of that, but on a minor scale. Some political parties, since Obama 2008, have become rather savvy at this, and front what I've read, Obama 2012 was a sight to behold. But what tools do we have for mobilization on the left?

There are many hurdles to political action. We often feel that we are alone; Facebook events have mitigated that a bit for protests, as you can see who will be attending. I think a lot of people rely on email as their main organizing tool, but email is a painful discussion platform. I find forums and chat rooms much better for this (http://campfirenow.com/ is becoming a popular tool, even though anyone has access to IRC/anyone can set up their private IRC server). A recent group I was organizing with collapsed when someone posted a giant toodle multiple-meeting request for the next three months; this was a case of using the right tool, but overdoing it and overwhelming everyone. (There were other issues, obviously...)

Before I embark on a full activist organizing suite, I was thinking about putting together a democratic decision-making app. I remember being on a board where we were sometimes called to make "emergency" decisions by email. I was pushing really hard to not make any decisions by email, because email stifles discussion, and I was rather against making decisions without discussion, for various proper governance reasons. If you did end up having the discussion by email, that resulted in a gazillion emails, which is a huge waste of time. However, there were plenty of smaller decisions that we could have made outside of a meeting when we had consensus. If only we had known we had consensus...

I started writing a long example, but I'm finding that I was taking longer writing about it than it would have taken me developing a working prototype in Rails. So I'm going to let this simmer for a bit longer and come back to it in a few days. If you have any ideas for a decision-making app thought, please do share. How could such an app help your organizing or your governance?

Current mood: Don't mourn, organize.

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