The Zabaleen go all over Cairo and collect household garbage.  They bring it back to this neighborhood and sort it.  Then each separate clan/family is responsible for one type of garbage– one for plastic, one for cardboard, one for fabric etc.  There are workshops everywhere where the garbage is being sorted, taken apart and put back together to make various new things that the family sells to someone.

Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people.—
Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) February 04, 2012

By essentially waging war on public transportation, House Republicans are bent on scuttling the 30-year old deal forged by President Reagan. Their bill would take the transit account –- now renamed the “alternative transportation account” — out of the transportation trust fund and throw it into the general fund. This will add $40-billion-dollars to the budget deficit, unless some unspecified offsets are found. It’s a shell game, and worse, it drives a dagger into the backs of millions of commuters (city-dwellers and suburbanites) who ride transit.

Bill Cunningham New York – fascinating and fun look at the life of Bill Cunningham, photographer for the New York Times.

A State of Mind – A look into communist Korea while watching 2 gymnast prepare for the Mass Games.

For The Bible Tells Me So – How the religious right have used the Bible to deny human rights.

Man on Wire – About Philippe Petit’s walk across the Twin Towers on a wire.

I’ve seen “Man on Wire“, which was awesome.

I like the idea of going back here with my own child.  I like that this music has been in my DNA for so long, and I want to share that elemental thing with him, even though he’s too young to have any idea what these songs are about.

Here are a few other guys who might have some Neil in their musical DNA.

When he recently was procuring 30 high-tech battery packs — the crucial 1,300-pound lithium units that sit under electric-van frames — he had to buy from suppliers in China for lack of local capacity. “We are absolutely at risk, if we don’t get on the idea that we’re going to be driving electric vehicles,” Brown said. “Build them here. If we don’t start doing that, within 30 years, we’ll all be driving Chinese electric vehicles.”

DC's street car system was 100 miles, ran from 1862 to 1962. New proposed system is 37 miles. Still more than any other city #dcstreetcar—
Tommy Wells (@TommyWells) February 01, 2012