2011.06.19 Commodore USA shipping replica C64s - Video

Commodore USA begins shipping replica C64s next week, fulfilling your beige breadbox dreams (video) -- Engadget

FOXygen & Blithe-whap

FOXygen -- "The heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage." 

"Foxygen" was coined by John Stewart on his Daily Show, May 12, 2011, as a protologism describing the kind of orchestrated disinformation that is continuously AIRed by FOX News.

"Jon Stewart again smacked Fox News for its fury over Common’s White House appearance, pointing out last night that only huffers of “Foxygen”—“the heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage” — would be bothered by the rapper’s performance." Cite with video: j.mp/foxygen

That is what i submitted as a new entry to UrbanDictionary.com on May 13, 2011 -- the entry was published on June 6. 

Meanwhile, i added "FOXygen" to the "F" page of the Wiktionary List of Protologisms .

Blithe-whap -- See also the "B" page of the Wiktionary List of Protologisms where i added what i had long thought was my own creation of a protologism -- "Blithe-whap" -- for which i have now found (and cited) an additional, independent source of its usage -- albeit that source (mis-?) spelled it "blith-".

Controversial Florida Pastor Denied Protest at Michigan Mosque, Apr 22, 2011

A U.S. jury  has banned Pastor Terry Jones from staging a protest in front of the largest mosque in North America in the U. S. state of Michigan.  The jury in Dearborn, home  to one of the country's largest Muslim communities, said such a protest would disturb the peace. Jones, pastor of a small evangelical church in the southern state of Florida, made international headlines last year when he threatened to burn the Quran, the Islamic holy book. Jones eventually did burn the Quran March 20 and posted video on his church’s website.  The move caused widespread violence in Afghanistan, and scores of people were killed including U.N. personnel.  The controversy that surrounds Terry Jones followed him into a courtroom Friday, when concerns about public safety intersected with Jones’s desire to stage the protest.  The jury's decision puts an end, for now, to Jones's plans. VOA. (More)

       Hatred never ends through hatred.        
       By non-hate alone does it end.
       This is an ancient truth.

      - The Dhammapada: 
      A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
      Gil Fronsdal, 2005, Shambhala

GAAAK !

GAAAK
-grs 2011.01

Creating Safe Spaces

May we each help create some safe space for others and ourselves, in each moment wherever we may be, where we may begin to nurture civility, curiosity, deep listening, understanding, empathy, love, reconciliation, and joy; so we can reduce each other's existential pain, which is the precursor to escalating suffering, fear, anger, intolerance, hatred, strife, atrocities, tyranny, war and genocide.

- gs 2010.09.21 & 2011.03.19