Be Excellent to Each Other

Be Excellent To Each Other. A blog by Matthew Becker.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Great Article


http://gizmodo.com/5370752/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind-persistence-jury+rigging-and-ingenuity-against-all-odds


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Sonargaon, Narayanganj, Bangladesh
I'm from Colorado and originally started this blog while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia. It has chronicled my work with the Peace Corps as well as my work and travels in Southeast Asia and adjusting to life in the U.S. after two and a half years abroad, and occasional work related and political rants. I'm currently pursuing my Masters in Global Affairs with a concentration on Peacebuilding at New York University and spending the summer working as a Peace Fellow for the Advocacy Project in Sonargaon, Bangladesh. I write about my experiences, traveling, people, and occasionally politics and world events. I spend a lot of time trying to balance my idealism with my cynicism, I love to laugh and I love making others laugh, I love traveling, taking pictures, meeting new people and sharing new experiences and I'm a firm believer in being excellent to each other.**The views expressed on this blog are strictly my own and do not reflect any official views or positions of the Peace Corps or any other organization I've worked for/with. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy this!
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  • Peace Fellowship in Bangladesh 2012
  • My Adventures in Photography
  • Kenya 2011 part 3
  • Kenya 2011 part 2
  • Kenya 2011 part 1
  • Fire Spinning
  • Peace Corps Mongolia 2009
  • Peace Corps Mongolia 2008

My Friends' Blogs

  • Chris's Random Ramblings
    11 years ago
  • Endurance Marathon-Ultra Glory or Ultra Death
    13 years ago
  • Rally's Rants and Randoms
    14 years ago
  • A Couple of Sojourners
    14 years ago
  • And so it begins...
    15 years ago
  • Leslie & Nathan in Mongolia
    15 years ago
  • Mr. Silly, Inc.'s Mongolian Adventure
  • Advance Humanity
  • My Peace Corps Mongolia Experience

Favorite Quotes

  • "It's never too early to start beefing up your obituary." -The Most Interesting Man in the World
  • "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Sri Chinmoy Ghose/Jimi Hendrix
  • 'I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.' -Gerry Spencer
  • 'One day may we all meet together in the light of understanding.' - Malcolm X
  • 'Be great in act as you have in thought.' - William Shakespeare
  • 'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.' - Mark Twain
  • 'Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.' - Gandhi

Followers

Great Reading

  • A Case of Exploding Mangoes
  • A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
  • Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
  • Faith at War: A Journey on the Front Lines of Islam
  • Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
  • Generation Kill
  • Ghost Wars
  • Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
  • Letter to a Christian Nation
  • Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
  • Live from Death Row
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
  • Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
  • Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
  • Strength in What Remains
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Food Revolution
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Places In Between
  • The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
  • Three Worlds Gone Mad

Links of Interest

  • Advance Humanity
  • Altai and Western Mongolia Tours
  • Altai Expeditions
  • Augustine - Amazing Photos from Central Asia
  • Come Back Alive
  • Couch Surfing
  • Cracked - The Greatest Website Ever
  • Free Rice
  • Fund Peace Corps
  • International Rescue Committee
  • Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  • Life is Volunteer
  • More Peace Corps
  • Peace Corps
  • Peace Corps Merit Badges
  • Source Watch - The Names Behind the News
  • Ted: Ideas Worth Spreading
  • The Art of Non-Conformity
  • The Harpswell Foundation
  • The Local Arm - Politics Into Music (Kevin Johnstone)
  • The Polaris Project
  • The Rebecca Project
  • The Unofficial Peace Corps Handbook
  • UB Post - Mongolian News
  • Where the Hell is Matt?
  • Zen Habits




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