February 2011
18 posts
“But why, then, was this world formed at all? asked Candide.
To drive us mad,...”
– Candide
What You Can Do For Libya
flatjean:
Please pass along this! Control of information, of access to media and an internet blackout is one of the most effective weapons a dictator can use against a revolution.
Dutch ISP provider XS4ALL has set up an internet dial-up service for Libya. Pass this along so that people in Libya can continue to speak out about the atrocities being committed against them. Use your modem to...
Happy birthday, Batman!
Oh, yeah. And me too.
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
Long Drive (With Your Friends) - Skrillex
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Oxford Murders
So, I watched a movie last night (3 AM, *cough, cough*) that had Burn Gorman and John Hurt. Also, Elijah Wood, but that’s not as important. It involved mathematical formulae, logic, physics, solving murders, and Oxford.
It’s kind of sad how ridiculously happy it made me to see people reference the Fibonacci number, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and the like.
Also, if I...
Icarus - Edward Field
Icarus
Only the feathers floating around the hat Showed that anything more spectacular had occurred Than the usual drowning. The police preferred to ignore The confusing aspects of the case, And the witnesses ran off to a gang war. So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply “Drowned,” but it was wrong: Icarus Had swum away, coming at last to the city Where he...
