Dandelion Salad Is Going On Hiatus by Lo (Updated)

Flying Bumble Bee on Honeysuckle Flower

Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr

Last Updated: March 16, 2015

by Lo
editor, Dandelion Salad
April 28, 2014

Decided to take a hiatus for at least one week starting Sat. May 3. It may last longer, maybe a month or maybe the entire Summer or maybe forever. Continue reading

Huge Thanks to All the Flickr Photographers with CC Licenses on their Photos by Lo

beginning to end

Image by Leonard John Matthews via Flickr

by Lo
editor, Dandelion Salad
September 15, 2013

Truly a huge thank you to all the photographers on Flickr with Creative Commons licenses on their photos.

The photos add of course, a visual aspect to the blog posts but I use them for editorial reasons, too.

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Save the Postal Service Rally + Occupy Wall St goes Postal

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Updated: added 2 more videos and an article by Ralph Nader.

Save the Post Office Rally

on Sep 27, 2011

Part of the national day of action to defend the Postal Service from privatizers. Rally in Bridgeport CT Sept. 26, 2011. Charles Page speaks after march by several score postal workers and supporters.

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Collard Greens, So Good For You

Flowering Collard Greens

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Updated: Sept. 7, 2012 added another video recipe

Photos by Dandelion Salad
Text from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collard_greens
May 20, 2011

“Nutritional information

Collard Greens

Widely considered to be a healthy food, collards are good sources of vitamin C and soluble fiber and contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties, such as diindolylmethane and sulforaphane.[citation needed] Roughly a quarter pound (approx. 100 g) of cooked collards contains 46 calories.

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COMO says Yes to Youth Peace Volunteers! (photos)

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Nov. 15, 2009


Alex, Emma & Lily

Originally uploaded by Dandelion Salad

Members and friends of Peaceworks met for their annual dinner last night, so I went and took lots of photos of smiling faces for the Afghan Peace Vigil.

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The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People

Source: University of Southern California
Date: June 29, 2007
The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People

Science Daily — A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.

That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information.

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via Science Daily