A conference to network, discuss and share ideas about issues confronting Muslims. http://www.hereticmuslims.com/

Yes, indeed. It will rock. [Edit: IT ROCKED. HARD.]

Another thing that rocks is getting back my glasses that I left halfway across the country over a year ago. They are amazing. I missed them so much.

Although Donna Karan is an idiotic bitch for continuing to use fur in her designs… damn it.

I recently got myself a “job” on Second Life, for whatever reason. I found it while browsing the SL Classifieds one day and Googling the name of the company. It turned out to be a great project to be a part of; it’s much more than a job, it’s a performance.

The project/job is called Double Happiness Manufacturing, also known as “Invisible Threads: Sweatshop Jean Factory in Second Life“.

The project uses “virtual” workers to produce a real-world product. As I understand it, there is a computer and printer set up at a real-world location and customers give the order through the computer to the workers in the factory. We, as workers, select options (one person per machine per option) that the customer desires and send the virtual product to the printer, which prints the result on a fabric, where it is assembled and given to the customer to wear.

As an added bonus, this installation of Invisible Threads in which I’m taking part is set up at the Sundance Film Festival! While we work, there is an audio and video stream from the RL installation to our factory so we can see and hear the customers. During our job hours this evening, Robert Redford himself observed our process and said he liked our exhibit. Amazing!

Some videos: Double Happiness Demo, Double Happiness Factory Tour

Bit of odd news from Germany, Mustafa Akyol shares a new poster being circulated: Sexual Abuse Alla Turca.

Anything that says “Republikanische Jugend” (Republican Youth) can’t be good. Their website says the ad is an “anti-mosque” campaign… Sweet.

(I’m wondering about the translation of the phrase in the poster. Mustafa translates as “don’t abuse me” but I understand it as “don’t mess/flirt/fool around with me” from it. It’s literally “make me not on”. Given the circumstances he talks about between Germans and immigrants, I understand how “abuse me” fits. Either way, I think it expresses a nationalist/racist/anti-Muslim/protect the pretty Weiße Mädchen attitude.)

Just helping to pass around this awesome video and site.

The Story of Stuff!!!

If you’re feeling negative after watching the video, make sure to see “Another Way” 10 Little and Big things you can do help.

BIG THANKS TO Thoughts of a Hijaabi.

kids are evil, version 12231: That’ll Learn Ya! Great comments here as usual.

Zoo Visitor Says She Saw Men Taunting Tiger and I believe her. If you go to a zoo (just like if you walk into a jungle or swim in the ocean) you’re basically asking to be mauled.

The zoo was set to reopen Thursday. The tiger enclosure will remain closed indefinitely.

Visitors to the zoo will find a new public alert system and more signs around the facility warning people not to bother the animals.

I’ve got a much better way to not bother the animals: Stop putting them in “enclosures”.

And stop hunting them, eating them, wearing them, trapping them, abusing them, stealing their habitats…