Incredible Tree-Climbing Goats | WebEcoist

Incredible Tree-Climbing Goats | WebEcoist: “…these were not created by a bored geek in Photoshop. Amazingly, these uncanny animals are actually real: they climb the Argan trees of Morocco in search of food…”
You’ve really got to see this.(This is what you find when you search “Morocco” in Digg, hah!)

Maroc Blog Awards

Maroc Blog Awards – English version: “The Maroc Blog Awards is Morocco’s largest blog competition aiming to recognize talented bloggers in topics ranging from arts, humor and politics.”
Best Moroccan Blog: Robin Des Blogs
Best Moroccan Blog in English: My Marrakesh

America’s Emptiest Cities

America's Emptiest Cities – Forbes.com: “Richmond, Va.’s rental vacancy rate of 23.7% is the worst in America”
“worst” (remember, this article is from Forbes.com) = “highest rental vacancy rate” (which, according to free market theorists, should be good for renters…)So, I wonder, are we seeing a drop in rents? or an increase in homelessness? or something [...]

Housing Boom or Bust: Renters Struggle

Renters squeezed by lack of affordable housing – Real estate- msnbc.com: “Shortage of affordable rentals in cities dwarfs issue of rising foreclosures”
The home mortgage crisis has received far more notice, but experts say the ranks of renters with dire housing problems are growing faster than the ranks of defaulting homeowners.

Housing Affordability…

Housing Affordability at Record High – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com: “Housing Affordability at Record High”
“This chart is crap”, eric
The comments in this entry tell us more about housing affordability than the article does.

Temporary Shelter Alternatives…

12-year-old Makes Homeless Shelter from Trash : Green Building Elements
12-year-old’s “Trash to Treasure” design contest entry, resembling an igloo or yurt, “provides shelter for the homeless and is made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts.”

To Better Understand the Mortgage Crisis…

William K. Black: The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis:“The FBI has been warning of an ‘epidemic’ of mortgage fraud since September 2004. It also reports that lenders initiated 80% of these frauds.”
Financial control frauds’ “weapon of choice” is accounting. Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of [...]

"Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?"

House Panel Questions Monitoring of Cash Shipped to Iraq – New York Times: Henry Waxman, Chairman of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants to know.
“$12 billion in cash shipped to Iraq between May 2003 and June 2004…The committee calculated that the $12 billion in cash, most of it in the stacks of $100 [...]

The Messy Side of Working From Home – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com

The Messy Side of Working From Home – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com:
“Work during nap time, or play dates, or on wi-fi while watching karate practice. It can be done. Right? RIGHT?”

Mass suicides by Indian farmers… shape of things to come

Voices – Mass suicides by Indian farmers… shape of things to come:
“Agrarian distress starts with colonization of eastern India by a British company, the East India Company [EIC] around 1760, their system of extortionate land tax, combined with forcing farmers to grow cash crops [chiefly indigo and cotton] on the best lands and not paying [...]