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See What You Eat

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:40:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What the video and think about your dinner again.

http://www.meat.org/index-1.asp?c=mymbagn0508

Clip Source: www.meat.org

Tags: food, meat, animals, video, shocking

George Carlin - Political Humor

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:35:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: George Carlin tells it how it is, no bullshit and very true.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Who owns you Americans?

Tags: political, humor, george-carlin, power

10 Steps To Fascism - Watch It

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:18:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Globalizatiobrings fascism to all of us. It's slowly crawling into our lifes. The charade called democratie is just to make us believe we actually might have soemthing to say.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Collateral 22-10 Steps to Fascism

Tags: fascism politics america power how-power-works

Disneys Version Of Classic Books

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:03:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not many people like to read anymore, so Walt Disney found a very lucrative way and made some classics into best-sellers. On this site are some hilarious examples of how a classic would look Disney-style.

Clip Source: home.bway.net

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Inferno by Dante Aligheri

Tags: literature, movies, disney. dum

Misanthrope's Alphabet

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:55:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Literature, hunger, dark and sarcastic. I found this link via Ulysses on google books.

Clip Source: home.bway.net

Seventy-one years ago, in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes defense attorney Clarence Darrow put prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan on the stand and proceeded to thoroughly discredit creationism as the preserve of flat-worlders, the Catholic Church, and idiots generally.

Of course, Scopes (and Darrow) lost the case, and so sanity is doomed. Recently, Creationism has risen again amongst the fundamentalist Right, demonstrating that these Bible -thumping mongoloids, the predictably degenerated grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the members of the Dayton School Board, shouldn't be allowed near science, let alone politics (or for that matter, heavy machinery and sharp objects).

Tags: , literature, writing, misanthrophy

Crazy Art -Pics

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:18:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Seems rather impossible without photoshop but
he is Chinese, so they some weird acrobatics sometimes.

Clip Source: www.hemmy.net

The Impossible Art Of Li Wei

· Filed under Arts, Photography

Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

Check out 14 more pics of Li Wei’s artwork over the various years after the jump.

Source: Li Wei Art

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Tags: art, pictures, tricks

History of Writing

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:12:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A detailed history of writing.

Clip Source: www.textism.com

The Evolution of Writing

Although its origins are more distant and obscure, our writing may be said to start with the Greek alphabet from which the Roman letters that make up the alphabet used in the west today derive. The Greek scripts read from right to left and left to right alternately.

Clip Source: www.textism.com

The development of written letters begins with Roman square capitals. The early scripts were written on vellum with an edged reed or quill nib held nearly parallel to the base line; they tried to copy the characteristics of letters incised in stone.

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In the Roman square capitals of the 4th century, the characters were somewhat simplified. The desire to write faster made itself felt.

Clip Source: www.textism.com

The quickly written letters of the minuscule-cursive took regular and proportioned shape as Half-Uncials. They were written, as the Uncials, with a reed or quill pen held with a nib parallel to the base line. The style is mainly known to us from the ecclesiastical works of the early Christian scribes.

Tags: ., learning, literature, thinking, history, writing

Bertrand Russel Qoutes

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:54:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Tags: russel, bertrand, philosophy, quotes

Why George W. Bush Loves Climate Change

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:21:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny cartoons by Mad Magazine.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Tags: humor, cartoon, cartoons, political, bush, climate change

Educated People Grow Older

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:55:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Life Expectancy Rises For The Educated; The Less-educated Reap No Benefit

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2008) — It's no secret that over the last few decades, life expectancy in the United States has been rising. However, recent data shows that not everyone has benefited from this encouraging trend. New findings from Harvard Medical School and Harvard University demonstrate that individuals with more than 12 years of education have significantly longer life expectancy than those who never went beyond high school.

In both data sets, life expectancy rose for individuals who had more than 12 years of education. For those with 12 years or less, it plateaued.

Overall in the groups studied, as of 2000, better educated at age 25 could expect to live to age 82; for less educated, 75.

Photosynth - Great Picture App

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:18:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A wonderful application that lets you view picture in a whole new way.

Clip Source: labs.live.com

The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.

In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor.

Tags: photos, photsynth, application, microsoft

World Wide Telescope

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:02:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm looking forward to the WWT, I love google space but this seems much better

Clip Source: www.worldwidetelescope.org

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.

WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft's high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.

Tags: internet, telescope, space, world wide telescope

Bizarre Literary Deaths

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:37:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternativereel.com

Cut wrists, wrote a final poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.
"Don't waken the dream that is dying/Don't stir the aim that has failed./Life brought me too early to trial;/The loss, the defeat—what availed?"

Jumped from a bridge over the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way down.
"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Committed seppuku (hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a Japanese garrison.
"If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile."

Tags: literature, poets, death, bizarre

Qoute - Thomas Edison

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An addition to the Americans getting dumber clip.

Clip Source: www.goodreads.com

"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas Edison

Tags: , quotes, quote, humanity, intellig, ence, ignorance, learning, thinking

Americans Getting Dumber

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:34:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not only Americans are getting dumber. In Europe the same process started also. Mainly evoked by brainwashing media like tv.
About seven years ago somebody wrote on the Internet: "there will come a time where humanty will be split in on-liners and off-liners.
The on-liners will have all the knowledge, the off-liners non.
I think it's already happening.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Joining the circle of curmudgeons this season is Eric G. Wilson, whose “Against Happiness” warns that the “American obsession with happiness” could “well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation.”

But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.

Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don’t think it matters.

Tags: america humanity intelligence ignorance learning r