Monday, August 30, 2010

Men! Women can't live with them and ...

Women love men ... 

Because 

they never understand us, but they never give up.

Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor.

Because because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to.

Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves.

Because they come from little boys.

Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when it comes to women.

Because they are incredible lovers and never rest until we’re happy.

Because they elevate sports to religion.

Because they’re never afraid of the dark.

Because they don’t care how they look or if they age.

Because they persevere in making and repairing things beyond their abilities, with the naïve self-assurance of the teenage boy who knew everything.

Because they never wear or dream of wearing high heels.

Because they’re always ready for sex.

Because they’re like pomegranates: lots of inedible parts, but the juicy seeds are incredibly tasty and succulent and usually exceed your expectations.

Because they’re afraid to go bald.

Because you always know what they think and they always mean what they say.

Because they love machines, tools, and implements with the same ferocity women love jewelry.

Because
 they go to great lengths to hide, unsuccessfully, that they are frail and human.

Because they either speak too much or not at all to that end.

Because they always finish the food on their plate.

Because they are brave in front of insects and mice.

Because a well-spoken four-year old girl can reduce them to silence, and a beautiful 25-year old can reduce them to slobbering idiots.

Because they want to be either omnivorous or ascetic, warriors or lovers, artists or generals, but nothing in-between.

Because for them there’s no such thing as too much adrenaline.

Because
 when all is said and done, they can’t live without us, no matter how hard they try.

Because they’re truly as simple as they claim to be.

Because they love extremes and when they go to extremes, we’re there to catch them.

Because 
they are tender they when they cry, and how seldom they do it.

Because
 what they lack in talk, they tend to make up for in action.

Because they make excellent companions when driving through rough neighborhoods or walking past dark alleys.

Because they really love their moms, and they remind us of our dads.

Because they never care what their horoscope, their mother-in-law, nor the neighbors say.

Because they don’t lie about their age, their weight, or their clothing size.

Because they have an uncanny ability to look deeply into our eyes and connect with our heart, even when we don’t want them to.

Because when we say “I love you” they ask for an explanation.

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

There are more people alive today...

  The total number of humans that have ever lived has been estimated at 110 billion.
  Approximately 6% of all those people are alive today.

Figure 1: Human Population Growth over Time

The human population growth of the last century has been truly phenomenal. It required only 40 years after 1950 for the population to double from 2.5 billion to 5 billion. This doubling time is less than the average human lifetime. The world population passed 6 billion just before the end of the 20th century.  Present estimates are for the population to reach 8-12 billion before the end of the 21st century. During each lecture hour, more than 10,000 new people enter the world, a rate of ~3 per second!

Of the 6 billion people, about half live in poverty and at least one fifth are severely undernourished. The rest live out their lives in comparative comfort and health.

Link: Population Growth Over Human History


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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Fortune # 57

Kleeneness is next to Godelness.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Joe & Eddie

Joe & Eddie

Joe and Eddie was an American gospel and Folk music group whose vocal career peaked in 1964. Composed of two African American men, Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown, Joe and Eddie became popular with their vocal talent. In their career, they toured the United States and Canada, appeared on over 20 major television shows and recorded eight albums.

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Feeding time

A group of otters wait for feeding time in their pen at the New Forest Wildlife Park, Hampshire

Picture: John Wines/BNPS (via Pictures of the day: 23 August 2010 - Telegraph)

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Cheap-labor Conservatives - holding us "Over a barrel"


  • Cheap-labor conservatives don't like social spending or our "safety net". Why. Because when you're unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you "over a barrel" and in a position to "work cheap or starve".

  • Cheap-labor conservatives don't like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you "over a barrel".

  • Cheap-labor conservatives like "free trade", NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why. Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are "over a barrel", and will work cheap.

  • Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman's right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women "over a barrel", forcing them to work cheap.

  • Cheap-labor conservatives don't like unions. Why. Because when labor "sticks together", wages go up. That's why workers unionize. Seems workers don't like being "over a barrel".

Defeat the Right in Three Minutes

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On the Internet no one knows...

I have a dog; I named him Stay.  So when I'd go to call him, I'd say, "Here,
Stay, here..." but he got wise to that.  Now when I call him he ignores me
and just keeps on typing.
                -- Stephen Wright

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Cookie Fortune

We all live under the same sky,but we don't see the same light.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Finnegan's Wake

Miniature Ann Arbor Sunday

Refusing at Fifty-Two

Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets
by Thomas Lynch


It came to him that he could nearly count
How many Octobers he had left to him
In increments of ten or, say, eleven
Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five.
He couldn't see himself at ninety-six—
Humanity's advances notwithstanding
In health-care, self-help, or new-age regimens—
What with his habits and family history,
The end he thought is nearer than you think.

The future, thus confined to its contingencies,
The present moment opens like a gift:
The balding month, the grey week, the blue morning,
The hour's routine, the minute's passing glance—
All seem like godsends now. And what to make of this?
At the end the word that comes to him is Thanks.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Test tasting...


erik parra at johansson projects

'between currencies'
on now until september 11, 2010
johansson projects, oakland california

'tasting'
6 x 7.5 inches
collage on paper


in his first solo exhibition 'between currencies', american artist erik parra examines 
the tension between the meticulously cut and the shredded with his juxtaposition of 
vintage pop media clippings and multicolored paper cutouts. the tangled layers 
of artificiality eminent in both the medium and the message- between black and 
white and RGB, history and desire, question the relevance of a search for american 
authenticity.

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Cat gas?


I don't think so.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

McFly!!!!

Ten Virtues Of Incense

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Ten Virtues Of Incense

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The Land of Giants

Designed byJin Choi & Thomas Shine, Choi+Shine Architects.

The Land of Giants

Award Winner
2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture 

Honorable Mention
Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition

This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design.



Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

The American Nekkid Nightmare

Finally someone has stated the obvious ... Not only the emperor but all of us are nekkid ... My compliments to Michael Lind for doing his best in trying to tell us the truth.

The fantasy of a vast upper middle class

College isn't for everyone. Neither is the stock market

. . .

For a generation, most Americans have been told by left, right and center that they would be failures if they ended their educations with high school, worked hard, saved cash for emergencies and bought modest homes they could afford. They have been told that to succeed in life they need to ape the lifestyles of the upper middle class that provides most of America’s politicians, pundits and scholars.

The result has been an experiment in social engineering that has gone horribly wrong: the creation of a faux mass upper middle class. Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, negligible amounts invested in stocks, and suburban trophy houses they cannot afford. For the college graduates at Starbucks working to pay off student loans for degrees that they will never use, as for the millions of Americans who are now "underwater," owing more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, the American dream has turned into a nightmare.

LINK: The fantasy of a vast upper middle class

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Friday, August 06, 2010

And this person is a physician?

Fort Belvoir, Virginia (CNN) -- Charges against the Army officer who refused deployment to Afghanistan because he says President Barack Obama doesn't have the authority to send him, should be thrown out says his attorney, Paul Jensen.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin went before a military judge -- and a standing-room-only courtroom -- in Virginia on Friday to face three charges of disobeying a lawful order, one count of missing movement (not deploying with his unit) and one count of dereliction of duty.

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Let loose the dogs... of rhetoric.

I guess if all you have is a Military-Industrial mentality then all you can see is war.  I was insulted when I read the following headline and then the subsequent snippet that is accessible before hitting the WSJ-pay-wall.  John Lee is the worst sort of saber-rattling 50's propaganda fear mongering profit. <= Spelled correctly - sensational journalism sells something.

China's Rise and the Road to War

BY: JOHN LEE | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

As with Germany a century ago, an emerging power is overestimating its capabilities.
To draw such an archaic comparison as 'Germany a century ago' to the current world circumstance is broaching the irresponsible.  There isn't a country on the planet that is seeking any sort of 'world domination'.   Besides, China has already won.  Their reign as the pre-eminent wold power will last well beyond our short lifetimes or even shorter memories.
To paraphrase Steven Wright, "If China had everything, where would it put it?"  The answer is "Everywhere."  Silly John Lee, China has already won and we are still right where we are.

You never go anywhere...

...without your soul.

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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Jim Crow is Alive in Khali-phorn-i-ah

Jim Crow is Alive and Well in California

SB 1121 was hardly a radical-sounding piece of legislation. Among other things, it would have given California's 700,000 farm workers the right to take one day off out of every seven. Hourly paid agricultural employees would have received overtime pay after eight hours per day or 40 hours per week. 

But when the bill landed on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk, he vetoed it, saying that the new provisions would put farmers out of business. 

Had the law passed, California farm laborers would have been the first in the country to receive the right to overtime pay. In order to get his New Deal policies past southern Democrats in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt exempted field hands (most of whom were African-American at the time) from protections granted other workers. Those exemptions still stand. 

"The governor had a chance to make history," Sen. Dean Florez, the bill's author, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "He had a chance to wipe a 70-year-old shame off the books of California. Instead he has decided to side with the shameful."

Perhaps we should boycott Khali-phorn-i-ah?

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Chaos is the New Calm - Poets.org

Chaos is the New Calm
by Wyn Cooper

Chaos is the new calm
violence the new balm 
to be spread on lips
unused to a kiss. 

Left is the new right
as I brace for a fight
with a man who stands
on his remaining hand.

Fetid harbor harbor me 
until someone is free 
to drive me away 
from what happened today.

Don't strand me standing here.
If you leave, leave beer. 

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I am throwing 80 years of First Amendment jurisprudence on its head

Judge Bars Reporter From Publishing Legally Obtained Factual Info, Saying She Doesn't Care If It Violates First Amendment

from the wow dept

Found via the Citizen Media Law Project is a report about how The National Law Journalwas barred from publishing information it had obtained legally in reporting about a dispute between a law firm and one of its former clients about fees. According to The National Law Journal, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff signed a temporary restraining order barring it from publishing the material the reporter had found out, specifically saying that The National Law Journal could not name the government agency that was involved in a "regulatory inquiry" into one of the participants in the lawsuit. When the NLJ reporter pointed to the First Amendment, the judge allegedly replied that she did not care:

"If I am throwing 80 years of First Amendment jurisprudence on its head, so be it." She said the court's interest in maintaining the "integrity" of its docket trumped the First Amendment concern.
Not surprisingly, the Journal is looking to appeal this ruling, but it really makes you wonder what the judge was thinking.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Japanese robot baby is terrifying

"This newest Japanese robot baby is terrifying. It is more proof of why we must order Japan to cease and desist in making any and all robots. There is no middle ground that can be had in this matter."

"Japan has lead the world in robot production, for several years now. We’ve told about how they’ve created fire-breathing robots, robot priests, ‘companion’ robots for dire pleasures and even friend-ship robots, to teach and talk to children when they are lonely. All of these things are immoral and against natural order.

There is nothing to replace a good, standard relationship between humans as was ordained by our creation. If robots were meant to be, they would have been accounted for in the creation story. Instead, these machines will be used to try to usurp mankind’s role in our very own lives."

Honest to God Link: ChrisTwire.org

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Recovery or Getting on with your life.

God grand me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, 
the good fortune to run into the ones I do, 
and the eyesight to tell the difference.


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Friday, July 23, 2010

Time to break the "Windows = Computing" paradigm

Microsoft on Tuesday said that hackers could exploit the unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability using drive-by download attacks that would trigger an infection when people simply surf to a malicious website.
A noted vulnerability researcher Wednesday confirmed that such attacks are possible.

Feed the world's hungry with... wait for it...


In what can only be seen as the pinnacle of affluent arrogance FarmVille users are "feeding" the planet's hungry one virtual blueberry at a time.  bon appétit

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does. 

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NASA maps forests

What other uses can you image for NASA's map of our world's forests? What other kinds of data would you like to see them add to this set?[img credit: exlibris]


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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Extending grace, worthy of praise


'mantle' mosque by daniel andersson and christiane flügel 
all images courtesy of daniel andersson, christiane flügel and via traffic


'mantle' by freelance architects daniel andersson (finland) and christiane flügel (germany) 
is a shortlisted competition entry for the 'design as reform' competition organized by dubai-based 
design collective traffic. the architecture category of the multi-disciplinary competition called 
for the design of a new, contemporary mosque. 

William Meloney
---------------------------
Voice: 270-215-4275

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Anonymous Comments a Right? NO! A privilege



Should people be allowed to comment anonymously online? That question is currently making its way through the U.S. legal system. A New York couple has issued dragnet subpoenas to Google and Yahoo demanding the identities of users behind 10 email accounts, 30 blog operators, website administrators, and the identities of anyone who had ever commented on those sites. That's hundreds of people! Riding to the rescue of our privacy and freedom are our heroes -- the EFF.


Anonymous comments should be a privilege.  Now here is the very hard part - this is a privilege earned not by position, reputation or political sway but by a much more rigorous criteria - content.  Anonymous comments should be allowed to exist only if the content warrants its existence.  Common sense, albeit scarce in these quickly evolving times, should be used to temper decisions about whether a given anonymous post should be allowed to exist or not.

If an anonymous poster's offering is denied on such grounds then that individual has three courses of action.  1.) Rewrite the posting in a manner that doesn't violate the common sense rules of valid content. 2.) Repost and own up to a possibly contrary perspective or point of view.  3. ) STFU

Contrary to the seemingly popular belief we do not have the unalienable right to say anything we want without owning up to it.

It is time for common sense to be the rule in our civilized society.

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Happy Birthday Nelson Madela (92)


Nelson Mandela is surrounded by children at his home in Johannesburg yesterday.
Debbie Yazbek / Nelson Mandela Foundation / AP


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EFF: many remain critical of Google

"...many remain critical of Google's decision to stay in China..."

Many Westerners remain critical because they haven't taken the time to learn the Chinese way.  A critical reading of this article shows that careful "cultural" concessions being made by the Chinese are engendering significant freedoms.  Simply to say that China should adopt Western values in the blink of an eye is very unrealistic, if not naive.

As for Google's relationship with China: Read the writing on the wall people!  Everyone would do well to have a working relationship with the #1 superpower on the planet.  Moreover, everyone would do well to have access to the largest national/cultural market in the world.

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

Rubens Tubes (Fun to say)


Thanks: Rubens Experiments

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Bad Day #19

Madhuri, an Indian elephant, swings a monitor lizard around by its tail. The unlucky creature had been swept off the ground and was carried around for a number of days by the elephant. With its tail firmly clamped in the animal’s trunk the lizard was swung around and occasionally put back on the ground. The scene was captured by Jagdeep Rajput during a trip to Corbett National Park in India

Picture: Jagdeep Rajput /Solent (via Pictures of the day: 14 July 2010 - Telegraph)


LINK 

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Reality Overated? Or, we don't need no stinking facts...

By MAX FISHER on July 13, 2010 11:48am

...
In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger. ... Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper.

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Alternative Views...


'role reversal' 2005
acrylic plastic, 165 x 175 x 175 cm
courtesy of cosmic galerie, paris



'role reversal' 2005
acrylic plastic, 165 x 175 x 175 cm
courtesy of cosmic galerie, paris

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Very strange business model

By Mary Jo Foley | July 12, 2010, 8:03pm PDT

The way Microsoft is phrasing the new end of life dates for XP is less clear-cut. The Microsoft “Blogging Windows” blog, in a July 12 post, explained it this way:

“(W)e have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1. This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle. As a result, the OEM versions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate will continue to include downgrade rights to the similar versions of Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional.  Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7.”

The only company I know that adheres to the maxim, "The aheader I go  the behinder I get."  Very strange business model.

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Isn't it FUDdy, isn't it lame...

Ballmer: Windows 7 Slates Coming Soon

I find it humorous in the extreme that Microsolth can't even mount a credible FUD campaign any more.

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Monday, July 12, 2010

'American Splendor' passes...

Harvey Pekar, Who Chronicled Ordinary Lives in ‘American Splendor’ Comics, Dies

Harvey Pekar


Link = New York Times

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Genius ... another perspective.

For the Romans, ‘genius’ was one word predating our contemporary idea of potential.  The Roman word ‘genius’ was used to designate the particular spirit of a place - that convergence in a landscape of plant, terrain and weather whereby, say, any specific tree has an utter, enchanting uniqueness.  In a sense, that tree can never exist in the same form at any other moment of time and space.

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Friday, July 09, 2010

If Jesus twittered:

Existentialism according to gapingvoid

Obvious signs have become necessary...

In a world where "Its OK as long as you don't get caught" has become the norm it is about time that we take the direct approach ... "DON'T COMMIT CRIME"

Further, 'me thinks they doth protest too much'.  To complain that such a direct approach is "an insult to people's intelligence" only bolsters my belief that the critics live in some rarefied ivory tower well away from Bubba and his pick-up truck. 
Herts Police poster
Campaigners have said the posters "assume a lack of intelligence"
A police service has been criticised for using blindingly obvious messages in its campaign posters.

"Don't Commit Crime" is stated on one of Hertfordshire Constabulary's posters - "All fuel must be paid for" has been added on posters at petrol stations.

Language watchdogs the Plain English Campaign said the notices were funny, but an insult to people's intelligence.

Herts police defended the notices saying the obvious was worth stating if it had any impact on crime.

A police spokeswoman said: "We are not saying it is going to stop hardened criminals but it may make someone who is nervous think twice."

The campaign group described the signs as examples of "talking in a vacuum".


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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Dick-o'-the-day!

Please, somebody paintball this fool...

Ramzan Kadyrov. Chechen President: 'I don't know who is responsible, but when I find them, I will express my gratitude'

AP

Ramzan Kadyrov. Chechen President: 'I don't know who is responsible, but when I find them, I will express my gratitude'

Chechnya's kremlin-backed President, Ramzan Kadyrov, has endorsed the growing practice of shooting at women in the street with paintball guns if they are not wearing traditional Muslim clothing.

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That’s what Chrome OS is, you know...

Google’s strategy has always been to use Chrome against Microsoft’s desktop monopoly...

Linux...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." 
  --  Mahatma Gandhi 

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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Monday, July 05, 2010

Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.

The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.

It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map.

It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths - much longer than what we can sense with our eyes.

Researchers say it is a remarkable dataset that will help them understand better how the Universe came to look the way it does now.

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More zen?

# 14.  Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

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Zazen, nah, takes too long.

Zen For Those Who Take Life Too Seriously

1.  Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

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Sunday, July 04, 2010

Saturday, July 03, 2010

The Guardian Prince of Albion

America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4
by William Blake 

[PLATE 3]

The Guardian Prince of Albion burns in his nightly tent,
Sullen fires across the Atlantic glow to America's shore:
Piercing the souls of warlike men, who rise in silent night,
Washington, Franklin, Paine & Warren, Gates, Hancock & Green;
Meet on the coast glowing with blood from Albion's fiery Prince.

Washington spoke; Friends of America look over the Atlantic sea;
A bended bow is lifted in heaven, & a heavy iron chain
Descends link by link from Albion's cliffs across the sea to bind
Brothers & sons of America, till our faces pale and yellow;
Heads deprest, voices weak, eyes downcast, hands work-bruis'd,
Feet bleeding on the sultry sands, and the furrows of the whip
Descend to generations that in future times forget.—

The strong voice ceas'd; for a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea;
The eastern cloud rent; on his cliffs stood Albion's wrathful Prince
A dragon form clashing his scales at midnight he arose,
And flam'd red meteors round the land of Albion beneath.
His voice, his locks, his awful shoulders, and his glowing eyes,


[PLATE 4]

Appear to the Americans upon the cloudy night.

Solemn heave the Atlantic waves between the gloomy nations,
Swelling, belching from its deeps red clouds & raging Fires!
Albion is sick. America faints! enrag'd the Zenith grew.
As human blood shooting its veins all round the orbed heaven
Red rose the clouds from the Atlantic in vast wheels of blood
And in the red clouds rose a Wonder o'er the Atlantic sea;
Intense! naked! a Human fire fierce glowing, as the wedge
Of iron heated in the furnace; his terrible limbs were fire
With myriads of cloudy terrors banners dark & towers
Surrounded; heat but not light went thro' the murky atmosphere

The king of England looking westward trembles at the vision


William Blake @ Poets.org

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Born with a Silver spork....

 lost-plastic-casting in silver 

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Friday, July 02, 2010

Chapter 1:

Chapter 1:
        The story so far:
        In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made
a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

-- Slackware Fortune

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Thursday, July 01, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Bad Day #17

POTUS vs. GAGA

Perhaps the most telling social commentary of our times... POTUS vs. The Diva

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9 Deadly Words...

His Thumb

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Do you know her?

She looks familiar, yes?

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Deus Ex Malcontent: Picture of the Week - Says it all....

Picture of the Week


From the ocean floor, directly off the Alabama coast. That brown crust you see coating everything -- including the crab in the foreground? That's oil.

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Social Networking Bill Of Rights

Social Networking Bill Of Rights Released

Privacy advocates seek comments on a 14-point plan for protecting users' personal information online.


Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference spent last week creating a Users' Bill of Rights that is now available for public consumption, feedback, and approval.

1. Honesty: Honor your privacy policy and terms of service.

2. Clarity: Make sure that policies, terms of service, and settings are easy to find and understand. 

3. Freedom of speech: Do not delete or modify my data without a clear policy and justification. 

4. Empowerment: Support assistive technologies and universal accessibility. 

5. Self-protection: Support privacy-enhancing technologies. 

6. Data minimization: Minimize the information I am required to provide and share with others. 

7. Control: Let me control my data, and don't facilitate sharing it unless I agree first. 

8. Predictability: Obtain my prior consent before significantly changing who can see my data. 
9. Data portability: Make it easy for me to obtain a copy of my data. 

10. Protection: Treat my data as securely as your own confidential data unless I choose to share it, and notify me if it is compromised. 

11. Right to know: Show me how you are using my data and allow me to see who and what has access to it. 

12. Right to self-define: Let me create more than one identity and use pseudonyms. Do not link them without my permission. 

13. Right to appeal: Allow me to appeal punitive actions. 

14. Right to withdraw: Allow me to delete my account, and remove my data.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225701171&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

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In simplicity great depth....

If My Voice Is Not Reaching You  
by Afzal Ahmed Syed

     If my voice is not reaching you
     add to it the echo—
     echo of ancient epics

     And to that—
     a princess

     And to the princess—your beauty

     And to your beauty—
     a lover's heart

     And in the lover's heart
     a dagger


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Monday, June 21, 2010

David Byrne...Building up the house...


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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Site Filtering By DNS

David Douthitt over at Unix Administratosphere offers a well thought out and rational criticism of "Site Filtering By DNS" ... for a geek.  However, the small town librarian Ms Marple is being pressured (back in the stacks) by Rev. Harrumph to protect those sweat innocent library patrons from such filth and degradation.  On a shoe string budget. With no technical support.  While trying to fend of Rev's advances.

Well-meaners and do-gooders, in keeping with the current aire of righteousness, simply have to protect little Jimmy and Susan from the scourge of the Internet.  By the force of LAW no public entity will knowingly allow our innocents to be at risk of ... exposure.  Well, at least not at the library.

The same Meaners and Gooders would repeal the Law of Gravity believing that in doing so they might prevent lil' Jim and his squeeze Suez from falling off their bicycles.

Full reference link: Why Site Filtering By DNS Fails

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Singularity

“We will transcend all of the limitations of our biology,” says Raymond Kurzweil,

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Time and Culture


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