All of Olympia is Preparing for The LINK Symposium! Join us!

Flyers found below:

PDF version http://designforthefuture.org/link/sept18fundraiserflyer.pdf

Document version: http://designforthefuture.org/link/sept18fundraiserflyer.doc

Fundraiser Event with Raffles & Pizza!

Tuesday, Sept. 18th, 2007. 6pm-9pm at
Chez Cascadia, 323 Milroy St. NW. Gift Certificate raffles provided by many of our wonderful sponsors:

Traditions Cafe & World Folk Art, Fine Consign, RadicalCaring.org, Abstractions Gallery of Fine Art, Vic’s Pizzeria, Jamie Lee & Company, Electric Rose Tattoo, Last Word Books & more! To see an updated list of our raffle gift certificates go to: www.blueskylink.org and click on: “Fundraiser Event September 18” or to go directly to the fundraiser event details click here.

DJ Thomas will keep the music flowing for this event!

Join us for a good time for a great cause! Creating a better world!

I just bought "The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War" by Robert Kaplan (not a book about anarchy as a social/political theory, just in case the titled scared you off). After reading about half of the introduction, I am absolutely fascinated. It might be kind of a "scare book", a la "The Long Emergency" (about peak oil), but I think it will also shed a lot of light on our history of militarization, the by products of that on the American psyche, and the effect that our "disillusionment" after great conflicts (ie post WWI Wilsonianism) has on the rest of the world.

So if people want to join me in discussion about this book, I would be really excited. We could try to have a meetup, or we could do it over the blog.

Big Brothers Big Sisters needs a web site overhaul. Are there any web designers out there that would like to donate their skills to a great community service non-profit?

Let me know.

Thanks,

Larry

ENTERTAINMENT EXPLOSION Presents: Hats Off! Fall Variety Show/Benefit Concert Sept. 30th

Doors open at 1:40 p.m., show starts at 2:00 p.m. at the Olympia High School Performing Arts Center, located at 1302 North St SE.

Tickets are only $8.00 and are being sold in advance and at the door!

You may remember Entertainment Explosion from their sell-out benefit concert for homeless kids last February at the Washington Center. The American Red Cross awarded them a 2007 Community Hero Award for that effort.

The September 30 performance will be a benefit for a local non-profit organization, the Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County (DRC). The DRC has been creating peace in our community for 17 years, by helping people resolve their disputes outside of court. Their theme? Mediate! Don’t litigate!

This delightful show will feature your favorite western, patriotic, and Broadway hits performed by Entertainment Explosion’s dynamic troupe of 55+ year old singers and dancers. Tap-dancers, barbershop quartets, and more will be onstage at the show.

Call the Dispute Resolution Center at (360) 956-1155 to to buy your tickets or for more information.

Blog about whatever you like! Have a problem? Spill. Have an issue? Please tell. Got a statement? Let it all hang out!

Have fun :)

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OLYMPIA – Thurston County will accept tires, appliances, computers and other recyclable items for minimal or no cost at two Community Recycle Day events. The events will be held from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on:

• Saturday, September 15 at the South Sound Speedway, 3720 183rd Ave. S.W. in Rochester.
• Saturday, September 22 at the Thurston County Fairgrounds lower parking lot, 3054 Carpenter Road S.E. near Lacey.

• Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners: $15 each (four appliances per vehicle).
• Microwaves, TVs, computer monitors, laptop computers: $10 each.
• Computer CPUs, printers, scanners, fax machines, copiers under 50 lbs: $5 each.
• Stoves, washers/dryers, hot water tanks: $5 each (no dishwashers since most are made of mostly plastic and not metal)
• VCRs, DVD or CD players, stereos, speakers: $2 each.
• Tires: $2 each without rims, and $3 each with rims (passenger tires only).
• Tractor-sized tires: $10 (prices for larger tires will be determined on site by the vendor).

• Scrap metal including de-valved propane tanks. No barbed wire, no motorized vehicles and no major vehicle parts (check with a scrap metal recycler or wrecking yard).
• Bicycles with or without tires.
• Electronics, such as: power tools, keyboards, computer mice, phones (including cell phones), and printed circuit boards.
• Small motors, such as chainsaws, weed-eaters and outboard boat motors.
• Push or riding lawnmowers.
• Flowerpots: 2-gallon or larger, clean and unbroken.
• Reusable items for Goodwill Industries, such as: working small kitchen appliances, kitchenware, small furniture, and clothing.

So one of the things I like to keep tabs on with OlyBlog is the list of the top referrers to this site. It's a nice 3-day snapshot of where external OlyBlog interest is coming from. Since I took on site administration duties Google search has been the source of over 1000 "hits" every time I've checked, without fail. Until today.

For those of you who don't know, the web search field is seen as pretty important by people who like advertising money. So why is any of this interesting? Well, today is the first time I've ever seen Microsoft live in the top 10. And I couldn't help but notice it coinciding with the first time I've ever seen Google source less than 1000 hits.

OlyBlog as zeitgeist of our wired times.

**Explicit language warning. You've been warned.**