Here's a great article that was linked to on WND for a while. It's gone now. Guess it was too insane even for them:



Here's my current favourite.

Kids attend prom from 'sexual hell'

This article from a similar sort of website is great too:

World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100%

Fuzzie boy, next time please do an article without me in it ok

check - HELVETICA - The Film.
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.

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Drawing is what I always loved the most. I discovered drawing type is drawing in a very pure form. Because a type designer does not draw letters. A type designer designs words and words are structures that contain patterns of black and white shapes, form and counterform. It is a game that deals with space and rhythm. Which is precisely what, for me, is the essence of drawing.
-- Cyrus Highsmith.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

Less-Wild Lovers
Standing at the Crossroads of Desire
Mars Hill Review - Summer, 1997
Less-Wild Lovers

Love Words With Staying Power?
NPR - July 1, 2009
Love Words With Staying Power?

Amazon Deletes 1984 from Kindle

More like interesting news, and mediocre article. But it sort of fits.

GRAND CANAL PREDATED VENICE - Ancient Roman City, found.

After a long search, the ancient city of Altinum -- considered to be the predecessor of Venice -- has been discovered. In a report published this week in Science, archaeologists at the University of Padua also report that the most popular of Venetian tourist attractions, the Grand Canal, was flowing through the Roman trade town as long as 1,500 years ago.

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"The surface of Venice is constantly metamorphosing [and] painting Venice is almost like being a restorer, peeling off the layers to find the picture after picture underneath."
-- Arbit Blatas

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

Two interesting articles:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic....rginia-morell-text/1

and

http://discovermagazine.com/20...es-time-space-cosmos

That first article was very good, Agent. It draws together a lot of cases that people have probably already encountered, and dismisses the mind-numbing ignorance of those who dismiss the minds of the animal kingdom. The second one is interesting, but seems to have some reasonably dubious foundations. Concluding that life 'creates' time simply because life is the only observer of time is extremely dubious and implies quite strongly that a material world independent of the observer doesn't really exist. It's just not a very pragmatic or realistic conclusion, considering all this stuff apparently exists and changes independent of observers. Of course, that's only what's apparent, we can never know what "is", we can just know what "probably is".

"There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why not talk about a Universe designed so rocks could one day come to be, and strong and weak Lithic Principles? If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers."

- Carl Sagan

Blogger Mark Chu-Carroll on Lanza's 'Biocentrism': http://scienceblogs.com/goodma...you_dont_under_1.php

(P.S. This is why most scientists I know warned me not to bother reading Discover Magazine, and especially their blogs)

Oh, I'd always figured it to be more philosophic inquiry than laudable scientific theory, but it's still an incredibly interesting read. An idea can be terribly wrong, but if it provokes new thoughts, it can hardly be said to be a failure.

What's a good alternative, anyway? (Something free? I haven't got the money for something like Nature. Or rather, I probably do, but am unwilling.)

And yes, Discover's blogs are awful.

Europe and Islam: A treacherous path?
Economist Magazine - September 6, 2009
Europe and Islam: A treacherous path?

“When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.”

Fuzzies, I agree that the level of dialogue from the conservatives needs to change.

Check this one out:

A Plea for a New Generation of Republican Leadership

Rala,

Only introverts will understand how awesome that is. Thanks.

Why I threw the Shoe?

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I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.
-- Muntazer al-Zaidi

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...us_britain_jobseeker

When I read an article like this I feel fortunate to have stable employment. Just last month I was awarded a gold plated belt buckle for 25 years of service. I reckon I could work another 25 years if I don't kick the bucket.

Where Political Comebacks and Celebrity Comebacks Meet
New York Times, Sept 27, 2009
Where Political Comebacks and Celebrity Comebacks Meet .