February 2009
14 posts
The Art of Activity Innovation: How to Be... →
Highly recommended.
Are you a carrot, egg, or coffee bean? →
One day I was feeling really down, and approached my mother. She listened to my problems, then brought me to the kitchen and boiled a pot of water. She took out a carrot, and put it into the boiling water. She pointed out that the carrot turned soft. Then she took out an egg, and again put that into the water. The egg, my mother then observed, turned hard. Finally, she took out a coffee bean, and...
Samsung's Solar Phone Made From Water Bottles! →
“[P]edometer, which measures how far you have walked and then tells you how much CO2 you haved saved by not driving.”
“[E]nergy saving mode which will lower the backlight levels and switch off Bluetooth — useful when charging via the Sun.”
“[S]olar panel is also claimed to provide enough juice to keep the phone going indefinitely.”
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“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
– Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist
Religious Truths...
During these serious times, people of all faiths should remember these four religious truths: 1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s chosen people. 2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world. 4. Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.
Dinosaur Nation →
We first learn about the existence of dinosaurs as children, and it’s not surprising that most of us are immediately captivated. Dinosaurs are an objectively absurd intrusion of science fiction into actual science, and teachers just casually toss them into the curriculum somewhere between simple machines and Saturn’s rings: “Also, these giant fantastical lizard creatures walked...
listening to "Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter" →
Ahh this song always takes me back..
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All Dogs Go To Heaven
arcktip:
This is literally a ‘church signs’ debate, being played out in a Southern US town, between Our Lady of Martyrs Catholic Church, and Cumberland Presbyterian, a fundamentalist church. From top to bottom shows you the response and counter-response over time. The Catholics are displaying a much better sense of humor! You get the impression that the Presbyterians are actually taking this...
“to love. to be loved. to never forget your own insignificance. to never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
“Because you like challenge. You have something to prove. You want to be the...”
– Cody A. Ray to Anna Dron via txt on Monday, August 18
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus