August 2009
NINE: Movie Trailer - Video
via metacafe.com Another one with Penelope Cruz. This one’s just packed with my favorites. Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, others, and staring Daniel Day-Lewis. Posted via web from daydreamingidly’s posterous | Comment »
BROKEN EMBRACES: Movie Trailer - Video
via metacafe.com Penelope Cruz in her next movie Posted via web from daydreamingidly’s posterous | Comment »
NINJA ASSASSIN: Movie Trailer - Video
via metacafe.com Awesome-looking ninja action flick! Posted via web from daydreamingidly’s posterous | Comment »
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“Just as we once evolved from subjects into citizens, we have now devolved from...”
– Douglas Rushkin, Life Inc.
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“I hear some people apologize for their inability to express themselves, and...”
– Michel de Montaigne, Essays, On the Education of Children
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“Let us, therefore, think about the unthinkable.”
– Me
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“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so...”
– Herman Hesse
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Inverted Totalitarianism
This is a term I heard listening to Chris Hedges. Normally, totalitarianism is when all of life is flattened into the political dimension, where the State puts itself in the position of controlling and subjecting all the rest of life to it. Inverted totalitarianism is what we have in this country. Here, all dimensions of life, including politics, is subjected to economics (corporate...
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The limits of science don't justify licentiousness...
“Just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale appeals to you.”
Dara O’Briain, comedian
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“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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“Money is human happiness in the abstract. He then, who is no linger capable of...”
– Shopenhauer
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Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other...
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future
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FORA.tv - Debate: The Media Can Not Be Trusted to...
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Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized...
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FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake
FriendDA This agreement is entered into this ___ day of ___ 20__ by and between _____________ (hereinafter “The Advisor”) and _____________ (hereinafter “The Keeper of the Idea” or “I”) regarding information The Keeper of The Idea is choosing to share with The Advisor (hereinafter “The Idea”). WHEREAS I possess a bright idea that I am...
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If Schools Told The Truth
via cracked.com This should scare the crap out of you, because it’s extremely LIKELY. Posted via web from daydreamingidly’s posterous | Comment »
If Schools Told The Truth
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Homeopathy & Nutritionists vs Real Science!
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Nick Beaudrot Health Insurance Reform - Paul...
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“The permanent misfits are those who because of a lack of talent or some...”
– Eric Hoffer
Good advice for someone who looks up to you
If you ever feel like giving up, remember that it’s the easy way out, and, in the majority of instance, makes the most sense on a strictly cost-benefit basis. (from n+1, but I forget the source, sorry) Posted via web from daydreamingidly’s posterous | Comment »
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“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abby Elliott Spoofs Gwyneth Paltrow's Cooking...
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Einstein: scientists need philosophy
“So many people today—and even professional scientists—seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of...
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“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do...”
– Machiavelli
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“All things excellent are both difficult and rare.”
– Spinoza
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“One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Nietzsche
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“I find it fascinating that brilliant scientists and philosophers have no clue...”
– Scott Atran
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“Research your own experiences for the truth…. Absorb what is...”
– Bruce Lee
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“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to...”
– Mark Twain
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“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.”
– Mark Twain
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“What we do is never understood, but only praised or blamed.”
– Nietzsche
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“Neurophysiologists, most of them, are still under the influence of dualism,...”
– J. J. Gibson
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What's really complex
When we talk of complexity and the limits of our understanding, most of us think of the universe, maybe the economy (lately, anyway), and some of us think of human nature generally (or the human heart, poetically). But I think that it is our sexuality that will remain, after we’ve figured out a unifying theory of everything in physics, the last great mystery, too complex and opaque for us to...
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“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
– Seneca
