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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:45:46 -0800

well they come and pull me from my house
and they drag my body through the streets
and the sun's so hot i think i'll catch fire, and burn up
in the summer air so moist and sweet

and the people all come out to cheer
rocks in the pathway break my skin
and there's honeysuckle on the faint breeze today
with every breath i'm drawing in
i wanna cry out but i don't scream and i don't shout
and i feel so proud to be alive
and i feel so proud when the reckoning arrives

the crowds grow denser by the second
as we near the center of the town
and they dig a trench right in the main square, right there
and they pick me up and throw me down
and i start laughing like a child
and i mark their faces one by one
the transfiguration's gonna come for me, at last
and i will burn hotter than the sun

and i've waited so long, and now i taste jasmine on my tongue
and i feel so proud to be alive
and i feel so proud when the reckoning arrives
-The Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride"

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:20:34 -0800

when i'm at the pearly gates
this'll be on my videotape
my videotape

when mephistopheles is just beneath
and he's reaching up to grab me

this is one for the good days
and i have it all here in red, blue, green
in red, blue, green
-Radiohead "Videotape"

Insulin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:34:03 -0800

From the page: "On January 11, 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old diabetic who lay dying at the Toronto General Hospital, was given the first injection of insulin. However, the extract was so impure that Thompson suffered a severe allergic reaction, and further injections were canceled. Over the next 12 days, Collip worked day and night to improve the ox-pancreas extract, and a second dose injected on the 23rd. This was completely successful, not only in not having obvious side-effects, but in completely eliminating the glycosuria sign of diabetes.

Children dying from diabetic keto-acidosis were kept in large wards, often with 50 or more patients in a ward, mostly comatose. Grieving family members were often in attendance, awaiting the (until then, inevitable) death. In one of medicine's more dramatic moments Banting, Best and Collip went from bed to bed, injecting an entire ward with the new purified extract. Before they had reached the last dying child, the first few were awakening from their coma, to the joyous exclamations of their families."

Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:06:56 -0800

Consider this: if we destroy ourselves, if we extinguish all life on this planet, what will remain to tell our tale to the universe? A few tiny spaceborne artifacts, like a handful of sand thrown into the vastness of space. One of these grains of sand is the Voyager Golden Record, now 9.6 billion miles from our Sun and growing ever distant. From the record:

"We cast this message into the cosmos... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some - perhaps many - may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours."

I feel a great, indescribable sadness whenever I read these words.

599 Productions - Timelapse Large

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:10:49 -0800

The river of light

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Pangolinpup.jpg

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:47:24 -0800

Pangolin!

GameSpot - Error

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:26:04 -0700

A man is haunted by a Nintendo game called Abadox.

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Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:35:47 -0700

From H.G. Wells' novel "The World Set Free":
"Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands... All through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing. There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape... Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it... Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city."

These words were published in 1914, nearly two decades before the nuclear chain reaction was conceived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shinkansen_500_Kyoto_2005-03-19.jpg

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:15:16 -0700

This Japanese train just looks like...speed.

Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress

Sun, 15 May 2005 16:54:36 -0700

From the page: "IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.7 PLANETS."
Presumably this is meant to encourage me to decrease my consumption in order to "fit myself into the planet". Balderdash. I say we build (or terraform, colonize, whatever) these extra planets so that everyone can live as wastefully as I. I dream of a future of unbounded wastefulness where we can do whatever we want without getting harped on by ecologists. (On a slightly more serious note, the implicit reasoning involved in the extra required planets is specious at best. If everyone lived like me, the world would just be more densely, efficiently, and heavily industrialized. We would not run out of space, and the third world would cease to exist. Yay!)