Holy fuck.
It’s about time.

EDIT: Oh, balls.

EDIT 2: Oh, balls balls.

I haven’t really had a chance to talk about anything but I wanted to tell everyone about something important and exciting that will be happening in a few hours.

Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.

This is the first annual Pangea Day. I’m hoping that it helps bring us all together in the name of peace. Movies and films inspire, create, and pull people together.

Hopefully everyone can take a moment, gather friends, your parents, and watch.

Cheers,
Sara

EDIT:
There were so many incredible films showed today but I wanted to share three in particular that moved me. I don’t know which was my favorite.

More by Mike Osborne.
Inja (Dog) by Steve Pasvolsky
and here is A Thousand Words by Ted Chung

Japan’s Hunger Becomes a Dire Warning For Other Nations

MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter to make a cake, she found the shelves bare.

“I went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter at those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run out of butter. I couldn’t believe it — this is the first time in my life I’ve wanted to try baking cakes and I can’t get any butter,” said the frustrated cook.

Japan’s acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.

A sharp increase in the cost of imported cattle feed and a decline in milk imports, both of which are typically provided in large part by Australia, have prevented dairy farmers from keeping pace with demand.

While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term — perhaps permanent — reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.

Read the rest of this article here.

Scary stuff. Scary fucking stuff.

HOLY SNOW.

I’m bundling up and going outside.

And who else is crazy about Google being down?! It’s driving me mad! Don’t fail me now, faithful overlords!

EDIT: Flickr and Facebook are down too. Maybe the Internet has the flu.