June 2012
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“No one has ever given me a good reason why we should obey unjust laws.”
– Helen Keller
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally...”
– Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
who may have also been an insomniac.
Hello, 3 am.
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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“Sometimes,I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh (said by Julia in Brideshead Revisited) The TV mini-series of that book is one of the best.
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“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
– Philip Barry
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“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.”
– Lucille Clifton
The National Do Not Call Registry
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home.
Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free.
Unfortunately, scammers have been making phone calls claiming to represent the National...
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“Cleverness gets in the way of creativity. Cleverness is often the easy way, the...”
– Lucille Clifton
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won't you celebrate with me
a poem by Lucille Clifton on this day of her birth
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has...
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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
– Pearl S. Buck The Nobel laureate and author of The Good Earth was born on this day in 1892.
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Moonrise Kingdom →
Not everyone will like MOONRISE KINGDOM. I did. I also like most of Wes Anderson’s films.
Click link to see the movie site. I like that too.
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“The average college senior in the U.S. now carries $25,000 in student loan debt.”
– on today’s show - the rising cost of college education in the United States npr freshair
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From around the web
Just cruising through my mail and looking at Facebook and twitter with my morning coffee. So much strangeness out there.
From the cougar at the Turtle Back Zoo in NJ getting cooled off with a bloodsicle.
To a friend who is attending a Skype Baby Shower where distant folks will use Skype to participate.
Strangeness on and off the Net.
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“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them -...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti
Well, that’s one way to look at it.
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“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
– Albert Einstein
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We Can Never Comprehend Ourselves
Jostein Gaarder, from an interesting book, Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
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“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
– Gustave Flaubert
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You think the internet is big now? →
The Akamai network currently handles over 2 trillion requests a day, [Akamai CEO Paul Sagan] said, and about 3,000 hours worth of content every minute — that’s 2 trillion transactions of some kind involving content that needs to be moved across the network from one of the company’s thousands of nodes in hundreds of countries around the world. And the bulk of that isn’t really content but...
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Summer has (officially) arrived
Summer 2012 began in the Northern Hemisphere today, June 20, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT).
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