Important issues of the moment: Save the Planet: (clip taken from the Discovery Channel's program "Addicted To Oil" )
Also: Save the Internet :
Quotes of the moment: "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders." - Nietzsche
"It's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than half way up one you don't." - Tim from The Office (U.K.)
"The whole world is about three drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart
"This must be how failure starts... an incompetence in mastering the common tasks of everyday life." - Charlie Black from Metropolitan.
"Don't waste your time, or time will waste you." - Tamil proverb / Muse lyric
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our Loyalties are to the species and the planet.
We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish
is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos,
ancient and vast, from which we spring." - Carl Sagan
"I like to think about the life of wine. How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline... And it tastes so fucking good." - Maya from the film Sideways
"It's not who you are underneath; it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes), Batman Begins
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus, from The Matrix
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." - Bertrand Russell
Actress of the moment: Zhang Ziyi
Primate of the moment:
The Bonobo
"Bonobos are in crisis. Humankind's closest relatives are teetering on the brink of extinction. Found only in the forests of the central Congo Basin, bonobos are being hunted for meat and profit. Bonobos are the rarest of all great ape species and no one knows how many survive. In fact, most people don't even know they exist! These amazing primates, who are so much like us, remain shrouded in mystery. " - bonobo.org
* Find out more...
* Here's a FAQ about what Bonobos may tell us about "our inner ape".
Fake words of the moment:
Words that should be in the dictionary, but aren't. fath·om·ous [from Tina, a.k.a. SempreVive]
adj.
- so deeply profound as to be unknowable, sublime.
dark and otherworldly, shrouded in mystery.
vast in depth; the fathomous ocean
Dolt·er·geist [a Rich Hall sniglet ]
n.
- a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.
Inane Factoids of the moment:
Ever wonder what the unintelligible screaming underscoring Wondershowzen's warning message is? Well, I just happened to have the TV on mute and inadvertently glanced at the closed captioning. Look left to find out...
Computer model of the moment: The Blue Brain Project
No, it's not a Pollock. "Flying through the column" is a rendering of a computer simulation of a single neocortical column of neurons, reverse engineered by EPFL and IBM and modeled on IBM's supercomputer, Blue Gene.
Artists of the moment:
M.C. Escher: Three Worlds
René Magritte: Le Seize Septembre
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." - René Magritte (Thanks to "I heart Huckabees" for inspiring this post.)
Photographer of the moment: Rebekka:
These photos are as mesmerizing and beautiful as the Icelander who took them.
Thanks to Mike H. for discovering her work!
Inconvenient truth of the moment: What makes meat. (From goveg.com )
WARNING: CONTAINS SCENES OF SEVERE ANIMAL CRUELTY.
Check out vegcooking.com .
Architect of the moment: Richard Morris Hunt:
If you're ever in Newport Rhode Island, visit Marble House.
Moment of the moment: The Tank Man Tiananmen Square, China, 1989
"After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime amazed the world. What became of him? And 17 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history?" - Frontline
Song of the moment: Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime , by Beck
There's a light that never goes out , by The Smiths
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