May 2007
22 posts
“Facebook is growing 3% per week, which is 100,000 new users per day. The fastest...”
– Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace
“You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between...”
– xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
– Aristotle
Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled... →
typing and singing at the same time is hard.
“Or we could play World Bank. That’s Monopoly on the Risk board.”
– Cat and Girl
“Issa then said: “The miracles of our God have been worked since the first...”
– The Lost Years of Jesus: The Life of Saint Issa - Notovitch
Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World -... →
“For reasons unknown, only a little better than half the people treated with...”
– Baby Boomers - Aging - Middle Age - Depression - Antidepressants - Medications - New York Times
“The GDP of Tokyo is slightly higher than the GDP of New York.”
– Chart, p. 98, The Economist, March 10th, 2007
i want the first poster on this page, but not... →
"twelve fold chain", the books
i saw them perform on monday night. they introduced this song as “a love song… but it’s actually about buddhist metaphysics.” at last it started in the middle beginning as it all begins, it forsook the source of things. and that which moved flowed over that which stayed, it made the choice to form a standing wave. it leaned the out against the in, unfolding in a place to...
Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus -... →
“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a...”
– Kierkegaard, quoted in a review of the film Into Great Silence
Lawrence Wang: i suppose there's plenty of empirical evidence that decay eventually sets in
Francis Ukpeh: ye
Francis Ukpeh: of course
Francis Ukpeh: but even if decay does set in
Francis Ukpeh: perhaps we could still bring them back
Lawrence Wang: but now i'm thinking of these stories about yogis and saints whose bodies stay around just fine after death
Lawrence Wang: maybe the weaker tissues go first
Francis Ukpeh: i'm thinking about zombie jesus
Lawrence Wang: ahahahaha
Francis Ukpeh: i don't even know how to follow that one up
Francis Ukpeh: i think it's all been said for now
“Why can’t doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because...”
– Doctors Change the Way They Think About Death - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com
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The first annual MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK is coming to... →
For one day a year – the first day of summer – public spaces in all five boroughs will become informal musical stages for all New Yorkers, amateurs and professionals, to perform for friends, neighbors, and passers-by, turning the city into a festival of live music making.
Welcome to the first annual Dance Parade! Coming... →
Dance is vital in healthy societies, helping people to communicate and affirm individual and collective identity. Dance Parade is a multi-cultural, multi-generational expression of the joy and value of these various forms of expression. It will foster cross-pollination of dance forms as it introduces audiences to novel styles and beats: teenagers to tango, clubbers to square-dancing, and seniors...
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