Manaf Tlass - Our Man in Syria?

‏@FatherBob

Don't ask about life on Mars until a decent life on earth is available for all.

Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

‏@subverzo

TANGO DOWN! Humanity has DDoS'd and crashed the @NASA images sites. We all claim responsibility, we want photos! #Mars #Curiousity

It once was one small step...

... now it's six big wheels. Here's a look at one of them on the soil of Mars
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Curiosity rover Mars landing (NASA TV)

More unquotations from the New Yorker

LeaLea Jones - The Road/AK47

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The history of South Africa is Nelson Mandela, District 9, and Die Antwoord.

Sunday, 5 August 2012

'Unconditional love for every living thing'

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(Thanx Yotte!)

The Libertines - Reading Festival (2010)

A few goodies HERE

Evgeny Morozov: The Naked and the TED

...So I take no pleasure in declaring what has been obvious for some time: that TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.
Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
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