October 2010
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“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.”
– Pablo Picasso on the first moon landing, The New York Times, 1969
“Oh, “impressed” is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon...”
– Vladimir Nabokov on the moon landing, The New York Times, 1969
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest....”
– Matthew 11:28-30
The Thinking Atheist →
“Reason To Believe” believer call-in episode, today (Oct.30th) at 11AM. See here.
(via toniiu:equivoque)
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Fantasy Lentapple Soup
What you need:
one can of green lentils
one apple
one pot
Directions:
place pot on hot element
lentils go into the pot
divide the apple many times
apple slices go into the pot
This soup is a “fantasy” because I don’t have any apples.
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Watch
the google image search results for "franklin... →
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And here we were, this afternoon, with nearly thirty dollars each, and our favorite, our very favorite, person tending bar. I wish I could remember her name, but I remember only her grace and her generosity.
All the really good times happened when Wayne was around. But this afternoon, somehow, was the best of all those times. We had money. We were grimy and tired. Usually we felt guilty and...
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Debating Europa →
Carl Sagan and others bicker about surface details of Europa.
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Neil Slade's Amazing Brain Adventure →
“Click here to go somewhere you’ve never been before…”
“I suppose the best occupation [for writers] is just meeting a great many...”
– Aldous Huxley
Business cards. It might seem lame to carry around business cards when you really have no business, but it’s the classiest way of telling an interesting stranger that you’d like to investigate their point of view.
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We mourn this senseless planet of regret, droughts, rust, rain, cadavers that can’t tell us, but I promise you one day the white fires of Venus shall rage: the dead, feeling that power, shall be lifted, and each of us will have his resurrected one to tell him, “Greetings. You will recover or die. The simple cure for everything is to destroy all the stethoscopes that will transmit...
“I was so excited to know the answer that I opened the book right there in the...”
Carl Sagan On Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Part I
Part II
Part III
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“Those who argue that the police sometimes do good things bear the burden of...”
– Anonymous
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