Cigarettes more polluting than diesel exhaust - New Scientist

Surprising, this. I'm still of the simple opinion that smoking is just self harming.

Court-ordered death to resurrection hoax

Business Day

A court on Tuesday granted police permission to bury the body of a man who passed away about eight weeks ago but whose family awaited his resurrection as predicted by a local "prophet".

This sentence...

"This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium). This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence is made of sunlight and plums. This sentence is made of ice. This sentence is made from the blood of the poet. This sentence was made in Japan. This sentence glows in the dark. This sentence was born with a caul. This sentence has a crush on Norman Mailer. This sentence is a wino and doesn't care who knows it. Like many italic sentences, this one has Mafia connections. This sentence is a double Cancer with Pisces rising. This sentence lost its mind searching for the perfect paragraph. This sentence refuses to be diagrammed. This sentence ran off with an adverb clause. This sentence is 100 percent organic: it will not retain a facsimile of freshness like those sentences of Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe et al., which are loaded with preservatives. This sentence leaks. This sentence doesn't look Jewish... This sentence has accepted Jesus Christ as its personal savior. This sentence once spit in a book reviewer's eye. This sentence can do the funky chicken. This sentence has seen too much and forgotten too little. This sentence is called "Speedoo" but its real name is Mr. Earl. This sentence may be pregnant, it missed its period. This sentence suffered a split infinitive-and survived. If this sentence had been a snake you'd have bitten it. This sentence went to jail with Clifford Irving. This sentence went to Woodstock. And this little sentence went wee wee wee all the way home. This sentence is proud to be a part of the team here at Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. This sentence is rather confounded by the whole damn thing."

 

-- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

Sudden moments

In retrospect, Victor was always a little unclear about those next few
minutes. That's the way it goes. The moments that change your life are the
ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)

Language may shape human thought - New Scientist

Language may shape human thought – suggests a counting study in a Brazilian tribe whose language does not define numbers above two.

And still they debate. Language allows for the description of concepts. Innit obvious?

NEWS.com.au - Big Brother gets suicide reality check

REALITY television programs are under fire after the winner in Portugal's first edition of the popular Big Brother series threatened to throw himself off a bridge at the weekend.

"Isn't kosher a Japanese type of fish?" - This question was asked in all seriousness by a guy called Sparkee. It's a strange world.

"And remember; when in doubt... fuck." - Advice given to the cat in Scent Of A Woman.

"Remember, they may be drinkers, but they are still human beings." - Batman

The abuse of power should come as no surprise. - Damien

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

 

braintuna

Velcome Templa Braintuna, to zee checking of ze reality. Go mad, you've got admin rights.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination. - J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English geneticist

Is love space?

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but its hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out. There's no need to hang around the clockworks and bug the Chink about it.
Assuming that our brains will get off their fat butts for a change, and play cosmic ball with us, allowing us to fully comprehend no time, then we might try to picture (if "picture" is the right word) what Einstein meant when he defined "space" as "love."
Einstein knew a lot about space-he determined, for example, that beyond the expanding volume of the universe space ceases to exist, and so we have no space to contend with as well as no time-and he may have had some special insights into love, as well. The first of his two marriages was a mess, however. Einstein wed a girl with a physical defect.
It was some sort of crazy limp that plagued Mileva Maric, some eccentricity of the foot. A few days after the civil ceremony in Zurich, one of young Einstein's friends confessed, "I should never have the courage to marry a woman unless she were absolutely sound."
Well, for all that fellow might have known, it could have been the daily contemplation of Mileva's wild toes that led Einstein to perceive the wondrous workings of Nature in a way that no other scientist ever had.
… If space is love, Professor, then is love space? Or is love something we use to fill space? If time eats the doughnut, does love eat the hole?

- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

See? Just me. 

Perception is reality.

"There is no such thing as love; only proof of love..." - The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci

God comes to the hungry in the form of food. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

I get mixed up by the various Gandhis. I'll have a Gandhi mix. Shaken, not stirred.

Baby drool can be interesting. On someone else.

Adapt

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer