November 2008
44 posts
Slashdot | E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum... →
AP: Cheney and Gonzales Indicted for Prisoner... →
the question is, will this opening gambit lead to wider examination and prosecution of Bush and company?
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Klick and Klack are usually wacko on their show,...
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Watchvia Nos enfants nous accuseront
A grim french documentary about the fact that children born today will be less healthy than their parents.
…and environmental issues aren’t important?
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On Laziness →
To-day we rather intended to write an essay on Laziness, but were too indolent to do so.
The sort of thing we had in mind to write would have been exceedingly persuasive. We intended to discourse a little in favour of a greater appreciation of Indolence as a benign factor in human affairs.
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“The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less
Quantum fluctuation....”
– Eric Schulman
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“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein, 03/14/1879 - 04/18/1955
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Watchan April morning in Berkeley, the morning after our arrival from Paris via München. Philippe is on fire, as usual, in spite of monstrous jetlag and serious culture-shock
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“Of journals:
On écrit de telles choses pour transmettre aux autres la théorie...”
– Renan, Souvenirs, p. iii
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“Thirty spokes join at the hub:
their use for the cart
is where they are...”
– Lao-tzu, Tao te ching, 11
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The creative richness of Harmonie Universelle in...
Concert review from the program “Bach Sons” given by one of my groups, Harmonie Universelle, at the Old Town Hall, Leipzig June 22, 2008:
Nice.
Light and shadow, consonances and dissonances, softness and sharpness, old music in youthful dressing, not a hint of boredom and no dusty music on dusty shelves. The ensemble Harmonie Universelle (Florian Deuter, - leader and violin, Mónica...
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“Ce n’est point une nécessité qu’il y ait du sang et des morts dans...”
– Racine, Préface, Bérénice, 1670.
Nanobama
“Microscopic faces of Barack Obama made using nanotechnology, and imaged using a scanning electron microscope. Each face consists of millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, grown by a high temperature chemical reaction.”
Nanobama Flickr set
(via seoulbrother)
“For those that wonder if the American Dream is still alive in modern...”
– President Barack Obama
2008 Election Results from Google
“A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright (via randominternet)
