Thoughts and stuff that don’t quite rate a “real” blog post.Tumblr (3.0; @toddepp)http://toddepp.tumblr.com/<a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/2009/6/2/please-go-to-the-middle-border-sun.html">Please Go To The Middle Border Sun</a>: <p>I am combining all of my blogs—about Kansas, South Dakota, Buddhism, and the law—into one blog-the <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">Middle Border Sun, formerly South Dakota Watch.</a><br/><br/>I am tagging the headlines so you can quickly…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117062702http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117062702Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:28:29 -0400<a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/2010/1/2/the-latest-from-the-middle-border-sun.html">The Latest from the Middle Border Sun</a>: <p>I am combining all of my blogs—about Kansas, South Dakota, Buddhism, and the law—into one blog-the <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">Middle Border Sun, formerly South Dakota Watch.</a><br/><br/>I am tagging the headlines so you can quickly…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117062694http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117062694Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:28:29 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/6/2/please-go-to-the-middle-border-sun.html">Please Go To The Middle Border Sun</a>: <p>I am combining all of my blogs—about Kansas, South Dakota, Buddhism, and the law—into one blog-the <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">Middle Border Sun, formerly South Dakota Watch.</a><br/><br/>I am tagging the headlines so you can quickly…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117043200http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117043200Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:53:35 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/8/22/the-latest-from-middle-border-sun.html">The Latest from Middle Border Sun</a>: <p>I am combining all of my blogs—about Kansas, South Dakota, Buddhism, and the law—into one blog-the <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">Middle Border Sun, formerly South Dakota Watch.</a><br/><br/>I am tagging the headlines so you can quickly…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117043196http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/117043196Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:53:34 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/06/please-go-to-middle-border-sun.html">Please Go To Middle Border Sun</a>: <p>I am combining all of my blogs—about Kansas, South Dakota, Buddhism, and the law—into one blog-the <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">Middle Border Sun, formerly South Dakota Watch.</a><br/><br/>I am tagging the headlines so you can quickly…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/116630697http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/116630697Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:42:04 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/5/26/change-your-feed-to-kswatchblogspotcom-please.html">Change Your Feed to kswatch.blogspot.com. Please?!</a>: <p>If you have not done so already, change your bookmark for Kansas Watch to <a href="http://www.kansaswatch.net/" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.kansaswatch.net" target="_blank">http://www.kansaswatch.net</a></a> and your feed to <a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default</a></a>.</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/113477131http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/113477131Tue, 26 May 2009 19:51:21 -0400<a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/2009/5/25/hey-switch-your-south-dakota-watch-feeds-to-southdakotawatch.html">Hey! Switch Your South Dakota Watch Feeds To southdakotawatch.blogspot.com</a>: <p>If you have not done so already, change your bookmark for South Dakota to <a href="http://www.southdakotawatch.net/" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.southdakotawatch.net" target="_blank">http://www.southdakotawatch.net</a></a> and your feed to <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"><a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default</a></a></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/112984099http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/112984099Mon, 25 May 2009 20:17:21 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-buddhas-stuff-in-france-now.html">Video: Buddha's Stuff In France Now</a>: <p><object id="swfclipV3699586" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/cube.swf?a=V3699586&m=844212" width="421" height="376"><param name="movie" value="http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/cube.swf?a=V3699586&m=844212"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="base" value="."> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></object><br/><br/>Let’s hope <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">Buddha</a> is no longer attached to his stuff because it’s a long way away from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.5666666667,77.2&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.5666666667,77.2%20%28India%29&t=h" title="India" rel="geolocation" target="_blank">India</a> in Franc now.<br/><br/><fieldset class="zemanta-related"> <legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"> <a href="http://thebuddhistblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/importance-of-buddhist-relics.html" target="_blank"> The Importance of…</a> </li></ul> </fieldset></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/109143154http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/109143154Sun, 17 May 2009 15:42:34 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/05/whats-buddhism-got-to-do-with-it.html">What's Buddhism Got To Do With It?</a>: <p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=buddhist&iid=4784209" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/c/d/8/7/Beyond__Three_acad.jpg?adImageId=1140462&imageId=4784209" alt="Beyond - Three Voices For Peace" border="0" height="275" width="380"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"></script><br/> </div> <br/>Any philosophy that can claim smokin’ hot singing legend <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877913/" title="Tina Turner" rel="imdb" target="_blank">Tina Turner</a> as an adherent has to be doing something right!<br/><p class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 310px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tina_turner_21021985_01_350.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Tina_turner_21021985_01_350.jpg/300px-Tina_turner_21021985_01_350.jpg" alt="Tina Turner, Drammenshallen, Norway, February ..." style="border: medium none ; display: block; width: 200px; height: 268px;"/></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tina_turner_21021985_01_350.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></p> <br/><fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by…</legend></fieldset></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/108211305http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/108211305Fri, 15 May 2009 11:42:21 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-year-later-praying-for-victims-of.html">One Year Later, Praying For The Victims Of China's Big Earthquake</a>: <p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=buddhist&iid=4761092" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/0/f/5/5/One_Year_Anniversary_2ddc.jpg?adImageId=1123814&imageId=4761092" alt="One Year Anniversary Of Sichuan Earthquake Approaches" border="0" width="380" height="253"/></a><br/><br/> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"></script><fieldset class="zemanta-related"> <legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/10/chinese-earthquake-park-t_n_201380.html" target="_blank"> You: Chinese Earthquake Park Turns Pain Into Profit </a> (huffingtonpost.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"> <a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/07/china-earthquake-anniversary-death-toll&a=4734944&rid=f7a43dd0-d838-403f-8df1-5df5ab74ee70&e=8a3371a666b405aa2ffadb7c34f2607a" target="_blank"> China releases earthquake death toll of children </a> (guardian.co.uk)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"> </li> </ul> </fieldset></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/107245622http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/107245622Wed, 13 May 2009 11:42:18 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/05/oops-looks-like-ill-be-sending-buddha.html">Oops! Looks Like I'll Be Sending Buddha A Belated Birthday Card</a>: <p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a style="font-family: zemantaDummyFont;" href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=buddhist&iid=4750539" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/6/7/2/f/Indonesia_Commemorates_Buddhas_824d.jpg?adImageId=1098641&imageId=4750539" alt="Indonesia Commemorates Buddhas Birthday" border="0" height="333" width="500"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"></script><p class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 190px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/92283658@N00/2487638663" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2487638663_274a4c459b_m.jpg" alt="Buddha's Birthday 2008: I Take Refuge in Buddha" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="240" width="180"/></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/92283658@N00/2487638663" target="_blank">Taekwonweirdo</a> via Flickr</span></p> </div> <br/>The bad news? I forgot <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_Birthday" title="Buddha's Birthday" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">Buddha’s birthday</a>.<br/><br/>The good news? Buddha is not attached to birthdays, so he probably won’t mind that I…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/105986647http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/105986647Sun, 10 May 2009 18:40:20 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/05/buddhist-art-for-buddhas-sake.html">Buddhist Art for Buddha's Sake</a>: <p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=buddhist&iid=4660036" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/f/1/a/9/VA_Launch_Their_b38a.jpg?adImageId=973154&imageId=4660036" alt="V&A Launch Their New Gallery Space And Exhibition" border="0" width="380" height="377"/></a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4742268119269993029-3717842239203167253?l=highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com"/></div></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102449151http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102449151Fri, 01 May 2009 20:27:26 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/5/1/dont-forget-to-change-your-feed-and-bookmark-for-kansas-watc.html">Don't Forget To Change Your Feed and Bookmark For Kansas Watch!</a>: <p>If you have not done so already, change your bookmark for Kansas Watch to <a href="http://www.kansaswatch.net" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.kansaswatch.net" target="_blank">http://www.kansaswatch.net</a></a> and your feed to <a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default</a></a>.<br/><br/>Thanks.<br/><br/></p> <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=d6bef01a-0fc6-8e6e-b9e3-a6cfb8db1cb1"/></div>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102024777http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102024777Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:45:45 -0400<a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/2009/5/1/dont-forget-to-change-your-feed-and-bookmark-for-kansas-watc.html">Don't Forget To Change Your Feed and Bookmark For Kansas Watch!</a>: <p>If you have not done so already, change your bookmark for South Dakota to <a href="http://www.southdakotawatch.net" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.southdakotawatch.net" target="_blank">http://www.southdakotawatch.net</a></a> and your feed to <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"><a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank">http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default</a></a><br/><br/>Thanks.<br/><br/></p> <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8c264bee-6afb-8071-a96c-9151b6857ecc"/></div>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102008852http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/102008852Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:07:23 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/4/26/yet-another-reminder-dont-forget-to-change-your-bookmark-bro.html">Yet Another Reminder: Don't Forget To Change Your Bookmark, Browser, and RSS Feed For Kansas Watch</a>: <p>Don’t forget.  Switch your bookmark and browser for Kansas Watch to <a target="_blank" href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/"><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kswatch.blogspot.com</a></a>.<br/><br/>And change your feed too by<a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"> clicking here. </a><br/><br/>Thanks!<br/><br/><br/></p> <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=058b08b5-34b2-8d5f-a9ea-43ec3205240d"/></div>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100435564http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100435564Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:45:37 -0400<a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/2009/4/26/another-reminder-switch-your-feed-to-httpwwwsouthdakotawatch.html">Another Reminder: Switch Your Feed to http://www.southdakotawatch.net</a>: <p>f you normally read SD Watch here at <a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/" target="_blank"><a href="http://thunewatch.squarespace.com" target="_blank">http://thunewatch.squarespace.com</a></a>, you can still do that, but I’m only going to provide an <a class="zem_slink" title="RSS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS" target="_blank">RSS</a> feed that has a snippet of the last ten postings on <a href="http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">…</a></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100423026http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100423026Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:07:20 -0400<a href="http://highplainsbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/04/meditate-and-become-not-just-more.html">Meditate And Become Not Just More Enlightened But More Creative?</a>: <p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><em><img style="width: 298px; height: 198px;" src="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/emails/journals/TWiPS-4-21-09_2.gif" border="0"/></em></span></span></span></div> An interesting press release from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">Psychological Science</a> regarding <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">meditation</a> and creative imaging:<br/><br/><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#333333;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102560927526&s=42297&e=001G4vpRXOc3_dBDzWE3No6a-AOKAQP24z0xKmRhctSZ_80JTmAqR7Hcxr5jcmVdiEjwb_uz-j4NLulVThJZMh-OnBIpklsfKGeZUt4TzHNNh_lv4UNwitu9Gsc0llEwUUcffXiaKhLI1ujAjHFYsx1dyKz8-v3ca6p-HZp1WIwE8syIkoHGmD41g==" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;">The Enhancement of Visuospatial Processing Efficiency Through…</span></a></span></span></span></div></p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100339521http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/100339521Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:22:50 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/4/24/dont-forget-to-change-your-bookmark-browser-and-rss-feed-for.html">Don't Forget To Change Your Bookmark, Browser, and RSS Feed For Kansas Watch</a>: <p>Don’t forget.  Switch your bookmark and browser for Kansas Watch to <a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kswatch.blogspot.com</a></a>.<br/><br/>And change your feed too by<a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"> clicking here. </a><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" target="_blank"><br/></a><br/>Thanks!<br/><br/></p> <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c322c662-fb43-83e3-898d-7e3ef349e0c6" alt=""/></div>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99804025http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99804025Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:45:33 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/4/22/please-go-to-kansaswatchnet.html">Please go to kansaswatch.net</a>: <p>I’m kind of a belt and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspenders" title="Suspenders" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">suspenders</a> kind of guy. <p class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 212px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Larry_King.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Larry_King.jpg/202px-Larry_King.jpg" alt="Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answers a..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="202" height="245"/></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Larry_King.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></p> <br/><br/>Ok, not actually, metaphorically. I just weat a belt with my pants. Not both. That would look dorky.<br/><br/>But I…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99057233http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99057233Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:28 -0400<a href="http://kswatch.squarespace.com/kansas-watch-front-page/2009/8/22/the-latest-from-kansas-watch.html">The Latest from Kansas Watch</a>: <p>Please go to the new main site for <a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kansas Watch</a><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> </a>at<a href="http://www.southdakotawatch.net/" target="_blank"> <a href="http://www.kansaswatch.net" target="_blank">http://www.kansaswatch.net</a></a> or <a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><a href="http://kswatch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kswatch.blogspot.com</a></a>. You can still access the last ten stories here and an occasional unique story…</p>http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99057231http://toddepp.tumblr.com/post/99057231Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:28 -0400