Hope

It was on the second day
that the laughter stopped
turned upon itself and ate a hole in the wall.
It was on the second day
that the water stilled
became glass and cut me through.
It was on …

Sambaiosis @ Bogarts

Sambaiosis performed at Bogarts on Saturday 9/1/07. After a summer hiatus they returned to the stage in fine form. They performed two big sets, with Hedgepath & Maury providing an excellent flamenco flavored interlude between Sambaiosis's sets. I ran out of steam …

A couple of nice photos of the recent lunar eclipse

by down_the_rabbit_hole

by photoshopabuser

by Airchinapilot

2 quotes

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being." - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

"Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of …

elephant not fortress

In May a very dramatic video was posted to YouTube showing an adult tiger attacking a gentleman riding the back of an elephant. At the time I could not find any back story on the video. Today i stumbled on what I think is the back story. According to the Wildlife …

So did he regret this within minutes or hours?

If only he had grown up with a Mac. (from CollegeHumor)

"3:10 to Yuma", memories of a short story

One year, when I was still in the midst of that phase of life known as High School, I spent the summer on my grandparents farm. I know, how stereo-typical. But this is not about life lessons learned birthing some random mammal or living the simple life. This is about …

BandyToaster

This was forwarded to me via email. Apparently it has been around for a bit and I just missed it. I cant decide if there is some video editing going on or just a very well rehearsed choreography.

ChangeDetection.com

If you, like me, have become accustomed to RSS feeds to keep track of web sites, podcasts and what not, then you may have been frustrated by the fact that RSS is not universal. Fortunately, for me at least, I came across the site ChangeDetection that offers a free …

Interesting article on the arms trade and international politics

The Village Voice published a story about an elaborate sting operation undertaken by the DEA to arrest a man by the name of Monzer al-Kassar. It reads like a remake of Nicholas Cage's 2005 movie "Lord of War". If you are interested in world events, this article adds …

How worried should we be about the Bees?

You may have heard in the news about the unexpected disappearance of honey bees across the US.

Slate.com had an interesting article about it:

With all the talk about environment & global change...

I ran accross this today in the Daily Mail:

Apparently 29,000 bath toys fell off of a ship while crossing the pacific ocean in 1992. Being buoyant compact plastic sculptures has allowed …