The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.
Do you want it? I don’t care what it is; do you want it?
What would you do to get it? Most people opt to wait for it. Most people never get it.
Some trade their values for it. Deception. Aggression. Conquest. Theft. Treachery. They often get it. They rarely keep it very long. […]
I really don’t care much for those forwarded emails “just to brighten your day” or “things to watch out for.” Funny jokes, humorous sites, and thought-provoking quotes show up sometimes…but more often than not, they turn out to be either mind-numbingly obvious urban legends or blatant hoaxes.
However, this weekend I was rather thankful for […]
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.” –James M. Barrie
My mother being an English teacher, this argument produces some rather heated debates when it pops up. She believes that Edward DeVere actually wrote the […]
I subscribe to several quote-of-the-day lists…and several good ones came across the line today. Here’s the first to pique my interest:
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” –Robert Heinlein
I like Heinlein…but I like him even more after reading this quote. There is a […]
via the Worl History Blog
Globalization is coming, and coming fast. In fact, one could argue that it is here already. Personally, I think this is a good thing. However, it is starting to look like our kids are going to be left behind. More than forty percent of high school kids could not find either […]
Okay…maybe not. But he was a man of many interests, one of which happens to have been the stars.
This is just one of the things I learned at one of my favorite new sites: DamnInteresting.com. This site definitely does it’s name justice.
According to the article, Poe theorized about the possibility of the Big Bang […]
Okay…maybe not. But he was a man of many interests, one of which happens to have been the stars.
This is just one of the things I learned at one of my favorite new site: DamnInteresting.com. This site definitely does it’s name justice.
According to the article, Poe theorized about the possibility of the Big Bang […]
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