links that touched me + 2 perspectives

the new photo friday theme is "Perspective" - which inspired the following 2 pictures, both taken at the very same place, just looking in different directions. this is the Randecker Maar, an ancient vulcano area near here:



and while out there, i remembered a series of link-posts i startd in January, each giving an interesting / new / unexpected perspective on a theme - here is the next one:

links that touched me
when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now started this "links-that-touched-me" series.

• International Space Station: current view + next sighting opportunity: "The current position of the ISS is displayed in real-time on a GoogleMap ... The International Space Station (ISS) can easily be spotted with the naked eye. "  
• The Poetry Storehouse: a multimedia initiative to promote new forms and delivery methods for page-poetry (+ direct link to poetry videos)
• Paying ready attention - a blog about being out there, with a focus on birds: "It probably does no harm to have a plan; to have thought about what you would like to happen, and then, with a plan in place, to do as much as you can to make it happen.."
• The internet as heaven by Ursula Le Guin (who is age 84 now...): "Time and space are the basic parameters of being in the world.." 
• How the teddy bear taught us compassion - a Ted Talk about toys and wild animals and the natural world at large

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and here is the "other" perspective - a walkway along the Randecker Maar (which means: along the ancient vulcano):

previous links: 
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales, Hiding, Guardian Film Show
- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing the journey, poetry podcast

- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worst passwords, windows, why dieting....
- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Money make you mean, Banksy...

& the photo friday link: Perspective