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Encyclopedias Are Still Helpful - There, I Fixed It

APOD: 2010 February 9 - Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

In the digital world, space is unlimited. Writers in the digital space do not have to deal with the constraints of the newspaper or the pages of a book. They can write thousands of words on a page, and have thousands of pages on their sites.

The constraint however, is the attention span of the reader. When the content gets longer than that you’ve lost.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

— Woody Allen Quote Book:

Island seen from space. via earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Face painting art - Boing Boing

via farm4.static.flickr.com

Girl, nose to nose, with a tiger

SWINE FLU (H1N1) « GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.

Cool Pics: Best Hand Painting Art Ever

Campo de maíz (via alba_faura)

The 10 weirdest physics facts, from relativity to quantum physics

To be or not to be.
— Shakespeare
To do is to be.
— Nietzsche
To be is to do.
— Sartre
Do be do be do.
— Sinatra

— (via mnmal)

Routine works. Establishing one does not make life boring or formulaic, but it does set up guide posts where true freedom and excitement can take place.

A routine I recently established was getting up at 6 a.m. This guide post has given my days structure. It has established a time where I can write this.

Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

Dounut Seeds

A Mona Lisa Created from Motherboard Bits

SURPRISE!!!

Self reliance is a myth. Humans are social creatures that need interaction for emotional well-being and sustenance. The concept of self reliance, however, implies that we can make it alone.

True self reliance would involve a complete withdrawal from society, a Thoreau-like retreat to Walden Pond or a John-the-Baptist-like wandering in the desert. However, even there the fish of the lake or the locus of the wilderness provided what they could not provide for themselves.

It’s easy to get down on yourself when you’re not perfect. Being less than perfect admits a shortcoming, a failure. It’s humbling.

A common cliché used to make someone feel better after a failure is to remind them that no one is perfect. However, this condolence provides little or no consolation. That’s probably because it doesn’t take a perfect person to avoid the particular screw up that’s getting you down. It only takes a better person.