December 2011
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“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the...”
– :: Franz Kafka
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Share your thoughts to gain some confidence to learn to deal with your problems on your own. How confusing.
:: by jozef conaway ::
:: spatial fog the flattener, time incarnate.
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:: A Weekly Good News Source NASA is working to develop tractor beams Space isn’t outside your door nor is it outside of you. It’s in your hand-held machines and in your squishy machine form hidden in the machinery of nature. Where will it take us next?
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:: Atheists Never one doesn’t need a rule book to know evil
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No Country for Old Men :: Film :: 2007 :: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen :: A pitch-perfect film about violence, death, greed, and hopelessness. Llewellyn Moss stumbles onto a briefcase full of money that brings him anything but good fortune. There are endless scenes of breathtaking cinematography and a poetic ending, which is a welcome change from the clear-cut Hollywood endings that I’ve seen too...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Tea Party, Occupy Protest Movements Rooted in Same Soil in our search for connections similarities are powerful, differences are petty. such is humanity.
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“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is...”
– :: Christopher Hitchens 1949 - 2011
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:: reDefinitions hipster /’hĭpstər/ n. 1 any individual who accuses another of being a hipster. 2 any individual who denies being a hipster.
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:: A smile the first thing you learn about lying
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:: Touch of Evil: Cinematic Villainy from the Year’s Best Performers Inspired villainy reaps artistic progeny.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :: Film :: 2004 :: Gondry :: Jim Carrey goes low-key in this inspired and dreamlike film. Broken and pained by a lost relationship, he chooses to erase Clementine (Winslet) from his memories without thinking of the consequences. A great, wildly inventive screenplay by Kaufman and ethereal visuals by Gondry put this film on just about every favorite list I see,...
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“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical...”
– :: Daniel Dennett
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:: Help Kill the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 Not only is this a massive spending bill (over half a trillion dollars), but Congress has already passed versions of it with a sneaky, devastating addition: indefinite detention. Any individual “who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces” can be held “without trial, until the end...
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:: by john webster ::
:: Vanitas Vanitatum All the flowers of the spring meet to perfume our burying; these have but their growing prime, and man does flourish but his time: survey our progress from our birth; we are set, we grow, we turn to earth. Courts adieu, and all delights, all bewitching appetites! Sweetest breath and clearest eye, like perfumes, go out and die; and consequently this is done as shadows wait upon...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson Two wonderful humans, Dr. Tyson and Dr. Colbert—who is out of character for this interview—have a great discussion about science and the nature of the universe.
Why is there something instead of nothing? Ten words or less. :: Dr. Stephen T. Colbert Words that form questions may not be questions at all. ::...
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:: aaron hobson || c i n e m a s c a p e s like found poetry, hidden gems//beautiful landscapes recorded by the systematic processes of google maps.
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Memento :: Film :: 2000 :: Nolan :: Probably Christopher Nolan’s best-known work before he directed The Dark Knight. It tells the tale of Leonard who, after a traumatic head injury, can no longer make long-term memories. But this is a very clever film because the whole story is told in reverse-chronological order with black and white segments peppered between scenes of a telephone...
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“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”
– :: Raymond Carver
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:: stressed pillars of comfort He said, you know that feeling you get when you can feel the whole thing coming down around you—that the only thing keeping it up is you struggling inside? Sometimes the best thing to do, in those situations, is to relax. Climb out of it all afterwards.
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:: by william butler yeats ::
:: He wishes for the cloths of heaven Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, enwrought with golden and silver light, the blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: but I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Alien city lights could signal extraterrestrial planets in search for intelligent life As light pollutes our night around the globe we finally realize those stars might be planets and humanity’s sister.
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:: MERLIN MONROE ambient and penetrating music to turn to to tune out time.
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Valhalla Rising :: Film :: 2009 :: Refn :: This film treats its audience intelligently, and starts in medias res—we are shown One-Eye, silent as always, tied around his neck to a post in the middle of a mud pit and forced to fight two Viking-looking warriors. He brutalizes them. Money exchanges hands and One-Eye submissively allows himself to be transported back to his cage. We are left to...
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“Words that form questions may not be questions at all.”
– :: Neil deGrasse Tyson in response to Stephen Colbert’s inquiry: “Why is there something instead of nothing? Ten words or less.”
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:: buy me a spaceship so i can alienate myself some more sometimes i think the earth gets colder with me. sometimes i’d rather be dead in space, limply circling some cragged moon to find some place that looks like home again.
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“Jump in! The water’s great!” they said and I, being the trusting type, did so. “You fucks! It’s not warm at all!” It was in my eyes, cloudy at first. They laughed, both of them in on the lie. I splashed them, a good-natured splash. “Well, it might not be warm, but look how deep you can see! It’s so clear!” he said. “That’s...
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:: A Weekly Good News Source Here Comes Solar Energy you can muddle the debate but you cant muddle the machines and no machine works quite like our sun.
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:: The Davewich: By Dave Marcaccini Hungry? Grab a Davewich!
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Seven Samurai :: Film :: 1954 :: Kurosawa :: Widely regarded as a masterpiece, I went into this movie with high expectations, all of which were exceeded. Kurosawa tells the story of a group of unemployed samurai who are enlisted to defend a poor farming village in the mountains from being raided by returning bandits. But there is a catch—the samurai must work for free. Most villagers do not...
