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Playing for Change, the folks who brought us “Stand By Me” a couple of years ago, traveled the world to bring many artists together for a performance of the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter.” Link -via Gizmodo
From Arkansas to the Caribbean to Japan, everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! And there are celebrations all over the world. Smithsonian has some you might not be familiar with, like those on the island of Montserrat, where St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday and festivities go on all week long. Link
(Image credit: Jennifer Johnson/Montserrat Tourism)
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As winter begins, festivals of light flicker across the globe. From the meticulous and pretty to dazzlingly overloaded, light displays are a testament to shiny visions of high electric bills to come. Oddee takes a look at some doozies, including the above photo taken at Seoul Plaza, Seoul, South Korea (from Carpe Feline‘s Flickr stream).
Link. (Happy next couple of days… whatever your faith, I hope the light shines brightly on you, Neatoreaders!)
Every now and then, there are calls for an international currency to diversify the current global currency system that is dominated by the US dollar. The current economic crisis has got Russia and China pushing for the concept, which was discussed at the G8 summit in Italy:
The Russian leader proudly displayed the coin, which bears the English words "United Future World Currency", to journalists after the summit wrapped up in the quake-hit Italian town of L’Aquila.
Medvedev said that although the coin, which resembled a euro and featured the image of five leaves, was just a gift given to leaders it showed that people were beginning to think seriously about a new global currency.
"In all likelihood something similar could appear and it could be held in your hand and used as a means of payment," he told reporters. "This is the international currency."
Link (Photo: Alexander Nemenov, AFP/Getty Images)
Do you think it’s a good idea to have a global currency? Why or why not?
