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Mar 6, 5:45pm
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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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Feb 12, 3:20pm
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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"
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Insulin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jan 30, 2:34pm
1 review
diabetes, medicine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin
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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."
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Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jan 24, 6:06pm
8 reviews
astronomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
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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.
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599 Productions - Timelapse Large
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Jan 20, 9:10am
39 reviews
photography
http://599productions.com/TimelapseLarge.html
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The river of light
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Pangolinpup.jpg
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Jan 12, 2007 10:47pm
1 review
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Pangolinpup.jpg
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Pangolin!
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http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/profile/video_player.php?id=dXxikzKo5bIKug
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Jun 16, 2006 1:26pm
3 reviews
video-games
http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/profile/video_player.php?id=dXxikzKo5bIKug
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A man is haunted by a Nintendo game called Abadox.
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Oct 17, 2005 6:35pm
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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.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shinkansen_500_Kyoto_2005-03-19.jpg
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Sep 30, 2005 6:15pm
0 review
trains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shinkansen_500_Kyoto_2005-03-19.jpg
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This Japanese train just looks like...speed.
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Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress
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May 15, 2005 4:54pm
212 reviews
environment
http://www.myfootprint.org/
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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!)
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