HH

His Holiness


Hot of the presses from a trip to India...David, I do believe you are the first person ever to take thermographic images of the Dali Lama.

His Holiness "HH", Prayer flags, and clouds in infrared false-color images:

Richie (Director of our program) and HH

Matthieu and Barry


Clouds

Sia ~ Breathe Me

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Support Chip

Support Chip! He's my boot-wearing southern slingin' cornbread ownin' bud. He's also the one who coined "Debbie-Doo". A very brave man.

Ominous - EP Chip Greene Release Date: Mar 08, 2005 Genre: Rock (P) 2005 chip greene

Ratatouille

"Just shut up and eat your garbage."

Very cute. Worth it for the music alone.

Dracula Getting a Sequel: The Un-Dead?

"The scoop at BlackFilm.com reveals that they're already got a director and a cast set for the sequel to Dracula titled The Un-Dead that's being made. This whole cast sounds like a bit too sweet of a deal and the director seems like an odd choice, so take all of it with a grain of salt. However the idea of a sequel might be an interesting film.

It was confirmed already last year by Variety that The Un-Dead was being made, this rumor that comes today is simply announcing the director, Ernest Dickerson (Bulletproof, Blind Faith), and cast: Javier Bardem will play Dracula, Monica Bellucci will play Lucy, and John Hurt will play Professor Van Helsing. Does this seem a little too good to be true?

In this sequel set 25 years after the original Bram Stoker novel, it features all the surviving protagonists, including Jonathan and Mina Harker and Professor Van Helsing, along with Inspector Cotford, a character cut from the original manuscript. The Stoker family has officially recognized the screenplay, the first adaptation to receive such approval since the original 1931 film. With everything that is known out, I'll end with a question: is there anyone who's excited for another Dracula movie and thinks this sounds like it could turn out good?"




Wicked cast.

Source http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/04/25/dracula-getting-a-sequel-the-un-dead/

ANNA NALICK LYRICS

"Breathe (2 AM)"

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe
Oh breathe, just breathe

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On Predicting Violence

Stephen King on predicting violence


''Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them.'' - Stephen King



EDITORS' NOTE: In the wake of the Virginia Tech murders and subsequent reports that Cho Seung-Hui had raised alarms in the English department with his writing, we asked novelist and Entertainment Weekly contributing editor Stephen King for his thoughts on the links between the creative process and violence. Where, exactly, does one draw the line between imagination and disturbing expression that should raise red flags?

I've thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called ''Cain Rose Up'' and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls' legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?.

As a teacher, I had one student — I will call him George — who raised red flags galore in my own mind: stories about flaying women alive, dismemberment, and, the capper, ''getting back at THEM.'' George was very quiet, and verbally inarticulate. It was only in his written work that he spewed these relentless scenes of gore and torture. His job was in the University Bookstore, and when I inquired about him once, I was told he was a good worker, but ''quiet.'' I thought, ''Whoa, if some kid is ever gonna blow, it'll be this one.'' He never did. But that was in the days before a gun-totin' serial killer could get top billing on the Nightly News and possibly the covers of national magazines.

For most creative people, the imagination serves as an excretory channel for violence: We visualize what we will never actually do (James Patterson, for instance, a nice man who has all too often worked the street that my old friend George used to work). Cho doesn't strike me as in the least creative, however. Dude was crazy. Dude was, in the memorable phrasing of Nikki Giovanni, ''just mean.'' Essentially there's no story here, except for a paranoid a--hole who went DEFCON-1. He may have been inspired by Columbine, but only because he was too dim to think up such a scenario on his own.

On the whole, I don't think you can pick these guys out based on their work, unless you look for violence unenlivened by any real talent.

SOURCE

Happiness

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Happiness is an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction. As a state and a subject, it has been pursued and commented on extensively throughout world history. This reflects the universal importance that humans place on happiness.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, written in 350 B.C.E., Aristotle stated that happiness is the only thing that humans desire for its own sake. He observed that men sought riches not for the sake of being rich, but to be happy (although the term we translate as 'happiness' in Aristotle cannot be adequately defined as either an emotion or a state). Those who sought fame desired it not to be famous, but because they believed fame would bring them happiness. Many ethicists make arguments for how humans should behave, either individually or collectively, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide for ethical behavior.

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Difference between normal person and scientist

So true Dave...so true

Chuck Palahniuk is delicious

Twisted Sister
Drugs, murder, kinky sex, flying mice: just another day for Chuck Palahniuk
By Matt Thompson

At a recent reading in El Cajon, California, someone asked Chuck Palahniuk to name the one thing he couldn't make funny. "Cruelty to animals," he replied. An hour later, as he sat inscribing copies of his books for queuing fans, a blur passed before his eyes. And then another one. A small group of men had shoved through the crowd and was pelting him with white mice from a pet store down the street. "They were throwing them so hard their necks were breaking," he says.

Of course, Palahniuk's no stranger to senseless brutality—on or off the page. His books, including the cult classic Fight Club, are awash in spilt entrails, disfiguring diseases, and grisly accidents. An analyst might say his obsession with the macabre owes something to family history, including the murder-suicide of his paternal grandparents. In 1999, shortly before Brad Pitt first explained the rules of Fight Club to movie audiences, Palahniuk's father was also murdered—shot mid-tryst by the enraged ex-husband of a woman he had just met through a personal ad. The writer used the killer's subsequent trial and execution as grist for his 2002 novel, Lullaby.

His latest book, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Doubleday, $24.95), covers similarly blood-soaked terrain. It follows a cadre of misfits who intentionally wreck their cars on busy city streets. One of them—possessed with superhuman cunnilingual skills and a fetish for venomous spiders—may or may not be Patient Zero of a world-crippling rabies epidemic. If this all sounds messy to you ... well, it is.

Then there's his sex life. In the fall of 2003, Palahniuk heard that Entertainment Weekly was planning to out him in an upcoming issue. (At the time, he claims, "Almost a dozen different journalists were asking me for money in order to protect my privacy.") Instead of waiting to see what they'd publish, Palahniuk decided to out himself on a fan site. When the EW piece appeared weeks later, there was no mention of his heretofore secret sexuality, though he claims he doesn't regret his decision. "It really had to happen," says the author, who lives with his boyfriend in Portland, Oregon.

Predictably, Palahniuk's announcement sent shock waves through the more aggressively hetero elements of his fan base, prompting some to reexamine his work through a rainbow-colored prism: Was there more to all that sweaty man-grappling than they'd thought? When asked whether there is any Freudian subtext to the scene in Rant in which two adolescent boys get sexual satisfaction from sticking their greased-up arms into holes in the desert, the author is amused. "Oh my God!" he gasps, sounding almost embarrassed. "You've got such a filthy mind!"

But in spite of all the lurid sex, ultra-violence, and hardcore drug use that fills his books, the closest thing to a common thread in Palahniuk's work might actually be the idea of community. From the basement pugilists of Fight Club to the wannabe writers of Haunted (his seventh published novel), Palahniuk seems as drawn to fringe dwellers as they are to him. "I've always tried to portray spontaneous subcultures where people engage in a short-term activity that allows them to experiment with different identities and social structures," he says.

A little like that gang of deranged mouse-tossers back in El Cajon? "I suppose," he says, sighing. "Though sometimes I wish I could hire someone to play the public me."

Source, RADAR Magazine

virginia tech

Virginia Tech Shooting Leaves 33 Dead

Train - Calling All Angels

I need a sign to let me know you're here
All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
I need to know that things are gonna look up
'Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup

When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my head
When you feel the world shake from the words that are said

And I'm calling all angels
I'm calling all you angels

I won't give up if you dont give up

I need a sign to let me know you're here
'Cause my TV set just keeps it all from being clear
I want a reason for the way things have to be
I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me

When children have to play inside so they don't disappear
And private eyes solve marriage lies cause we don't talk for years
And futbol teams are kissing Queens
and losing sight of having dreams
In a world that what we want is only what we want until it's ours

Calling all you angels

LISTEN

THE BEST EMAIL EVER

From: mpb309 (mpb309@talkmatch.com)

To: ella251 (ella251@talkmatch.com)

Date received: April 16, 2007

Subject: I love wearing red lipstick, too!

Howdy-

Well, this is a first. Besides the photos, your profile is laced with streaks of sass and funk.... and it truthfully gave me an erection. I'm looking for more than just a pretty face; a girl with a large brain turns me on like nothing else. Kudos!

You wear white after Labor Day? I look good in white and don't listen to any of those fashion fuckos either. I also drive a white Maxima... and it's a manual transmission to boot. How 'bout dem apples?

I see one of your turn-ons it tattoos. I just got this wicked unicorn ink job on the small of my back. All the boys at the gym now recognize me as the Alpha Male. I'm definitely a bad boy, but one every mother could love!

Seriously though, you had lots of good things to say and you seem real passionate about life. So am I, and I don't even know where to start telling my story. Maybe I could fill you in a little bit, if you're interested (and you should be).

Take care,
[deleted]

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Thanks to Match.com for this mornings entertainment!

Life is Finite

The last six minutes of the Six Feet Under finale, a perfect ending to a wonderful series. Moving even if you have never seen it.

Stunning and unforgettable

Life

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is

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Finite



Breathe Me Lyrics
Artist(Band):Sia

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere else to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Miranda July promotes her new book

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Miranda July’s handwritten website promotes her book

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

I’m buying just bc of this!

Cassettes Won't Listen

If you like Beck, Ryan Adams and Badly Drawn Boy you're gonna dig

Cassettes Won't Listen

Funky, chunky, non-hipster rock from a really cool guy.

Check out their remake of circa early '90s - rock Liz Phair's Fuck and Run.

After film noir was cult 70's

SEE GRINDHOUSE


& POP YOUR CHERRY

Post Taken From Source: Sand and Cotton

15 “HOLY SHIT!” Movie Moments: The scenes that are unexpected, out-of-nowhere, and stick with you. I tried to stay away from torture-porn and shocking horror-type movies for this one. Blah, blah, blah. Shut up Stephen and show me the fucking clips. To make up for my wordiness, I had so much fun putting this one together I’m going to give you fifteen instead of the usual ten…

15. The Departed

The last ten minutes of this movie is one huge “HOLY SHIT” moment. If you haven’t seen it yet, you DO NOT want to watch this clip.



The other 14....

~#1 gave me nightmares for a week~

"Thou Shalt always Kill" video by dan le sac VS scroobius pip

Brilliant

Brilliant

~ BJORK Party ~

Out of experimentation, the Icelandic singer will return in May with a definitely more pop album. Exclusively, she gives us some news about her strange and prolific brain.. [SOURCE]

History of medicine

History of Medicine

2000 BC: Here, eat this root.

1000 AD: That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.

1850 AD: That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.

1940 AD: That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.

1985 AD: That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.

2000 AD: That antibiotic does not work anymore. Here, eat this root.

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celebrate

Happy St. Pattys

and

First Anniversary for my Blog

‘Things do not change, we change.’

-Thoreau.

Extraordinary

Glass wing butterflies

email exchange

Deb [reply to all]: friggin a'. I think jzk and I may be at the gym at that time. but if I'm not, I will try to show up. smashing idea.

Jess [ta]: that's right bitch. gym time. :D

Deb[ta]: obviously, you can all see that I am in an abusive relationship.

Vera [ta]: Hey sweetie, you know you are my bitch first!!!The papers are in the mailboxes. I took the liberty to check yours (Debbie) and you have an A with the comment that your paper was extremely well-thought and written or something along these lines :)

Deb [ta]: DAMN I am trying so hard to be my own person yet I appear to be everybody's bitch

Jess[ta]: So how is studying going for everyone?

Deb[ta]: $@!#*@^*$#%*&@?

Jess[ta]: I concur

Malini[ta]: ...the top 5 things i wish i would have brought home instead of the wrong behavioral data
1) a Hicky
2) a jelly donut
3) Richard Simons
4) some kind of intoxicant
5) the right behavioral data

Man in Jews for Jesus t-shirt sits while well-dressed young man across from him unbuttons shirt, takes out black marker, and writes 'Buddhist 4 Mohammed' on his undershirt, standing and aggressively staring down Jew for Jesus.

Buddhist guy: Give me zee money, Lebowski! I fucks you up! We want zee money, Lebowski! Give us zee money or we fucks you up! [Steps to the left, and in a different German accent] Ya, give us zee money, Lebowski. My girlfriend cut off her toe 'cause she thought we would get zee money. Iss not fair.

Jew for Jesus: [Silent, calm.]

Buddhist guy calmly sits back down and buttons his shirt, turning to small Hispanic boy next to him: And that's where babies come from.

--6 train

Overheard in New York

Back to Black

New Amy Winehouse released in the US. Love the edge to her voice; I'd like to see her do something jazzy.

How to date me 101

Do challenge me.
Don’t compete with me.
Don’t tell me I’m gorgeous or smart.
Do tell me I’m unique.
Don’t buy me drinks.
Do buy me dessert.
Don’t stare at my chest.
Do stare in my eyes.
Don’t be authoritative.
Do be assertive.

Do tease me.
Don’t deny me.
Do notice the small things.
Don’t quote poetry.
Do be original.
Don’t be arrogant.
Do be confident.
Don’t ignore my friends.
Do dress well.
Don’t mistake conflict for passion.
Do let me infatuate you.
Don’t let me know it.

Unsanity

The common way we think about the nature of human mind is that it is either sane or insane. LSD hints to us that there is an area of the mind which could be called “unsane” – beyond sanity, and yet not insane.

Think of a circle with a fine split in it at one end is insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity but not insanity is “unsanity”. This is perhaps where all the superlative effects of humanity come from.

Not only of art but of science.

And it may be that we could approach it by a thoughtfulwise study of LSD.

~Sidney Cohen

Bent- Beautiful Otherness

Beautiful otherness
Love you because of this
Lost in the loveliness
Of your beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
I found myself rodderless
You gave me foreverness
And your beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
Beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
Kind hearts and coronets
Safe in the warm caress
Of your beautiful otherness

When you're right, when you're right
When you're right, right, right with me

Beautiful otherness

listen (sample)

I'd hit that

If you're a fan of Overheard In New York (.com), they just made a new site called "Celebrity Wit" with overheard quotes by celebirites.

Angelina Jolie: I'm not sure if there was a key event that changed me, but I first had sex when I was 14.

Shout-out: newsoftheworld.co.uk

Sunshine

Fracture

If you look close enough,

you'll find everyone

has a weak spot.

girly

Disappearances

Meredith (voiceover): Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. Its unexplained. It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn’t know we had disappears, do we miss it? If we cannot remember what it was, was it ever there at all?

Nine Inch Nails

Hot new NIN video for "Survivalism".

junior boys

JUNIOR BOYS

My latest aesthetic and rhythmatic addiction.

Check out their Flash - Say Goodbye

Check out their Music - Sonically rich pop, born of the UK dance culture

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Izzie: I'm a pretty girl.

Chief: What?

Izzie: I'm not being arrogant, it’s just, it’s just kind of a fact. For a long time I made a career from my looks, so I get it, I'm a pretty girl. And not in a "from a certain angle" way, in an obvious way. It’s the blonde thing and the big boobs thing, big boobs are a key to obvious pretty if you know what I'm saying.

Chief: Dr. Stevens.

Izzie: It’s how men see me. I'm not a smart girl or an interesting girl, I'm a pretty girl. The blonde and the boobs it confuses guys into thinking that I'm someone else. And I'm used to it. And I'm used to them walking away when they realize… But then Denny goes and asks me to marry him.

Chief: Is that why you cut the wires?

Izzie: He doesn't make me feel like I'm a pretty girl. He makes me feel like… like me. I think he might know me. And so, if I did cut the LVAD wire, and I'm not saying that I did, but if I did, then no, I don't feel guilty. And I know that I should. And I would if it were anybody else. But I can't feel anything but happy.

Elektro-Punk

Emmanuel found the cool music before me this time.

Check out Ghostland Observatory

Love them all, but make sure you drown in the rhythms of Silver City...

now featuring

You can never have too much security if you own a BMW, so I've installed this brand new theft protection device.

In honor of Fri night's pyrotechnics

The obsession started long before...here's Dave as photographed in 1999 by Eric Meyer (click on #4).

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New NIN

Trent Reznor has rolled out the tracklisting for Nine Inch Nails (music)' forthcoming concept album, "Year Zero," and is setting up the album's premise via a series of strange websites, audio files and album leaks.

"This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere," Reznor said in a prepared statement issued last week. "That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place ... as if it were meant to be. ... The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.

"Part one is Year Zero. Concept record. Sixteen tracks. What's it about? Well, it takes place about 15 years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you'll have an idea of the backdrop," he continued. "The world has reached the breaking point--politically, spiritually and ecologically. Written from various perspectives of people in this world, Year Zero examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truth.

"This record is much more of a 'sound collage' than recent efforts from me," Reznor continued. "A lot of it was improvised. It is very tedious describing your own music. It's not just music. It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do to paint the complete picture. It will sound different after a few listens. You can think about it and it will reveal more than you were expecting. You can dance to a lot of it. You can fuck to a lot of it, maybe all of it depending on what you're into..."

( Rolling Stone Article Plus Album Cover )

Glamorous - Lovin' this

Flossy, Flossy

Click above. You tube isn't posting my videos for some reason.

"Foolish Games"

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
And I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you.
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair,
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care.
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather.

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Well in case you failed to notice,
In case you failed to see,
This is my heart bleeding before you,
This is me down on my knees, and...

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Well, excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,
Somebody who gave a damn,
Somebody more like myself.

Responsibility

Today I'm choking on responsibility in every modality.

Pager on my hip for suicidal patients in crisis. Beep beep beep.

Emails in my box.

Voicemails.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Every action has a consequence.

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People's lives change

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Mine stays the same.

dressaholics unite

Lily Allen designs New Look clothes collection 'Lily Loves' fashion line set for high street

Lily Alen is set to design a "capsule wardrobe" for high street clothes chain New Look, to be titled 'Lily Loves'.

Known for her quirky dress sense and penchant for gold jewellery and vintage pieces, the range will feature six dresses, two pairs of shoes and assorted brightly coloured accessories.

Speaking about Lily Allen's individual style, New Look's head of fashion communications Sarah Walter explained: "She's an absolute dressaholic."

The collection is due to hit UK stores in May.

Source

hotness is hereditary

Marlan Brando's grandson posing for VOGUE.

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armor

If our frontal lobes are our brains' armor against impulses, mine may need a tune-up after this w/e.

nat spill

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

~Erica Jong

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Hey... Behbeh

Bebeh, I may have gotten neutered just yesterday, but I can still put the "hey bebeh" moves on. With one wink, I'll seduce a hamburger right out from under you.
You think that medium rare patty is still on your plate?
Look again, Honeh. Look... again.

Source: Cuteoverload.com

nerd-u-lous!

ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUT AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE

For the propagation of an ideal where science communicators can meet firstly, for drinks; secondly, for communicating; and ultimately, for networking.

- - -
Members are:

- not opposed to alcohol.

- fond of IPCC reports (especially the pictures).

- mostly in agreement with the "truth."

- into badges.

- grieving for the slow and miserable death of the Hubble Space Telescope.

- possibly possessed of supernatural powers.

- not in the business of total world domination

- committed to the constant and diligent presentation of science stories, be it to editors, producers, directors, educators, relatives and/or friends of various ilk, in an effort to lessen the gap that is this thing we call public scientific literacy.

- - -
The "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, I've got a TV gig" badge.

In which the recipient plays a significant science performance role in TV. This badge is nullified if recipient is always shown wearing a lab coat.

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The "I've been published at the New Yorker" badge. In which the recipient has published a science piece at the venerable New Yorker. Pretty much means the recipient has to pay for drinks in subsequent meetings.
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"I've been rejected by the New Yorker" badge, the "I blog about science" badge and many more...

SCIENCE SCOUTS

who is appropriate this week (...and always)

Neither Snow

When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow,
the distinguishable flakes
blowing sideways,
looked like krill
fleeing the maw of an advancing whale.

At least they looked that way to me
from the taxi window,
and since I happened to be sitting
that fading Sunday afternoon
in the very center of the universe,
who was in a better position
to say what looked like what,
which thing resembled some other?

Yes, it was a run of white plankton
borne down the Avenue of the Americas
in the stream of the wind,
phosphorescent against the weighty buildings.

Which made the taxi itself,
yellow and slow-moving,
a kind of undersea creature,
I thought as I wiped the fog from the glass,

and me one of its protruding eyes,
an eye on a stem
swiveling this way and that
monitoring one side of its world,
observing tons of water
tons of people
colored signs and lights
and now a wildly blowing race of snow.

Billy Collins

picture, times square, nyc

Across the Universe

'Stills from the Beatles'-themed (musical-wise) film ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, plus an early and very long and good review of the film from IMDB, and the trippy trailer for those that missed out on it..' Source

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Now available in dorsal and ventral

(An appropriately inappropriate thank you to PW.)

Quotes

"Worker bees can leave,
Even drones can fly away,
The queen is their slave."
-Fight Club

"Papa don't take no mess."-Mr. Please Please (James Brown)

"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES,
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
Anything can be."
-Shel Silverstein

Happy Valentines Day!

Who Told You about God?

Mom: So, what kind of animals do you think we will see at the zoo?

Small boy: I think elephants and snakes... Mom? Are there also pretend things there, like dinosaurs and God?

Mom: I think we need to have a talk when we get home.

--N train near Union Square
Overheard in New York

Freak Show

New book by JSJ, author of Disco Bloodbath.

Source: www.myspace.com/totally_james_st_james

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comfort

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Jewel - Hands

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If I could tell the world just one thing

It would be that we're all OK

And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful

And useless in times like these

I won't be made useless

I won't be idle with despair

I will gather myself around my faith

For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small, I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

And I am never broken

And we are never broken

In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters

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LISTEN

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The 7 deadly sins in chart format with combinatorial behaviors:

"I know how to sit, how to fetch,

...and how to roll over. What I don't know is how I ended up here."

http://www.pedigree.com/dogadoption/commercial.asp

accidental events

When I was twelve years old I accidentally substituted salt for sugar in a cake recipe. I baked the cake, iced the cake, and served it up. It looked like a cake, but as soon as you cut into it and took a taste, you knew something else was going on. People are like that, too. Sometimes you just can’t tell what’s on the inside from looking at the outside. Sometimes people are a big surprise, just like the salt cake. Sometimes the surprise turns out to be good. And sometimes the surprise turns out to be bad. And sometimes the surprise is just friggin’ confusing.

-Janet Evanovich - Twelve Sharp

see

Babel represents director Alejando Gonzalez Iñárritu's conclusion to a stylistic and thematic trilogy begun in Amores Perros and continued in 21 Grams.

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Read here and watch the trailer.

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tonight

Alyson Shotz: Topologies

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Alyson Shotz, Detail from Viewing Scope, 2006.

2-14 Alliant Energy Center Memorial Coliseum Madison, WI

Despite my protest, John Mayer is going to come see me on Valentines Day. Jessica, what can I say? Be strong...you'll move on. I've gained a new respect for John and his music these past few months through his writings. Check them out here.

aurora borealis

Texas, unknown

Coin-Operated Boy - Dresden Dolls

Momma Likes.

Even better Live. See them in Chicago this spring with Badly Drawn Boy.

At the bus stop

Even in science, we accept that there are unknowns. Incredible truths in the universe that defy all logic and reasoning.

I do not accept the belief that there is an ultimate agency that predetermines our lives; I do not underplay the significance of coincidence and randomness in our world. But at the same time, I believe that when logic and reasoning defy us, there may be something unexplainable guiding us. Perhaps, fate.

Switch

Want to turn off a woman's brain? No problem.

Here's the switch.

This is probably the kind of parent I would be

Kid yelling: What are we doing after dinner? [Parents ignore him] What are we doing after dinner?!

Mom, calmly: Stop yelling, or I'll have to kill you.

--10th St, between Broadway & University
Overheard by: Calling the Morgue

Source: Overheard in New York

Waisman chronicles

DK: Why can I never sneak up on you?

DO: Because of your heels.

DK: *pouty lips expression*

DO: You could take them off. You have cute feet.

DK: The PET people yell at me for walking barefoot around the genetics freezer etc.

DO: Wait. Good call. I think you're glowing.

DK: rad.

Whatever Lola Wants

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have no regrets
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you're through
I always get what I aim for
And your heart'n soul is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets,
Take off your coat
Don't you know you can't win?
You're no exception to the rule,
I'm irresistible, you fool, give in!...Give in!...Give in!

Hello, Joe
It's me
He hits so far
-hold on-that's you
Aaah-haaaaaa
Poo poo pa doop
Peek-a-boo
Yoo-hoo

I always get what I aim for
And you heart'n soul is what I came for
...Lola wants
...Lola gets
...You'll never win
I'm irresistible, you fool,
Give in...Give in...Give in.

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I've heard every known jazz musician sing this, but I've learned that the music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the musical play Damn Yankees. The song also appeared in the movie made from the play.

Mediation

The caterpillar has a life span of 1 to 2 months; the butterfly a mere 2 weeks. What happens when you want something in between? Can you be beautiful and grounded all at the same time?

Bright and Shiny

Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There is a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.