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“Early Christians transformed the world by thinking different and living different, not by complaining about everybody else’s morals.”

—Alan Wilson

“‘You are destroying yourself,’ he cried. ‘You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. You want to be like others in town here. You hear them talk and you try to imitate them.’”

—Sherwood Anderson

“On earth we are wayfarers, always on the go. This means that we have to keep on moving forward. Therefore be always unhappy about what you are if you want to reach what you are not.”

—St. Augustine

“In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.”

—2 Chronicles 31:7 (ESV)

“There would so much less laughter in the world if evil people stopped talking.”

—MadPriest

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry…”

—Ecclesiastes 8:15

“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school? Did the factory help you grow? were you the maker or the tool?”

—Ewan MacColl

“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably…when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do; we overanalyse.”

—Rowan Williams

“You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate—poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera….I think people are beginning to realize that you can’t have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world.”

—Desmond Tutu

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

—Edward Abbey
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Eternal Second Life (31 July 2007)

Catholics are now being asked to save the poor, backwards souls of Second Life.

Also, Tom Waits is a role model for Catholics.

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Feel good about destroying the planet (29 July 2007)

The Guardian’s George Monbiot discusses the trend among environmentalists to promise green living without sacrifice: “It’s easy. Just make your own bread, butter, cheese, jam, chutneys and pickles, keep a milking cow, a few pigs, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, beehives, gardens and orchards. Well, what are you waiting for?”

He reminded me of Nina Paley’s cartoon Ecollusion.

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AP Headlines Said Are Weird (29 July 2007)

Zwicky Says Found Unusual Headline English Usage

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Democratic frontrunners are "irresponsible and naive," say democratic frontrunners (26 July 2007)

Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton’s support of the Iraq war “irresponsible and naive,” a day after Clinton threw the same insult at him for his support of diplomacy with “renegade leaders” of such countries as Cuba and Iran.

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You dirty rat. (25 July 2007)

“The similarities between us and Rattus extend far beyond gross anatomy. They’re surprisingly self-aware. They laugh when tickled, especially when they’re young, and they have ticklish spots; tickle the nape of a rat pup’s neck and it will squeal ultrasonically in a soundgram pattern like that of a human giggle. Rats dream as we dream, in epic narratives of navigation and thwarted efforts at escape…”

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Ethics rules for student loans. (25 July 2007)

Student lenders will no longer be allowed to give gifts to university employees, a practice which apparently was not prevented by the relevant partys’ codes of ethics.

The Senate also cut subsidies to the lenders, siphoning the money into grants for low- to middle-income students.

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Airport security set to get a lot more annoying. (25 July 2007)

TSA has warned US airports to watch for “dry runs” of terror attacks.

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Save Darfur. Pretty please? (25 July 2007)

The proposed UN resolution on Darfur just lost some teeth, as Britain and France agree to drop the threat of sanctions from the document.

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iPh0wn3d (23 July 2007)

Security researchers have found a security hole which would allow an attacker to take complete control of an iPhone, gaining access to all the personal information stored on the device.

(via Consumerist. There’s also a New York Times article)

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That Ain't Gangsta (23 July 2007)

50 Cent is still whiny over the last time he got shot (“The musician [sic] was shot nine times in a rap feud seven years ago,” reports the BBC). Now he’s suing an ad firm for a MySpace ad which depicts him (or, rather, a generic rapper who—like all generic rappers—resembles him) getting shot. With a camera.

He wants a million dollars and a permanent injunction against the use of his image, now that his handlers pointed the offensive flash game out to him.

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"The world's poorest two billion people desperately need healthcare, not laptops" (23 July 2007)

So guess which one they’re getting.

The world’s largest laptop manufacturer, Quanta, will soon begin production of a $100 laptop, to be used for education in the Third World.

(My title here was borrowed from Bill Gates.)

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Slightly amending history (23 July 2007)

“The Arabs call the war the Nakba, a war of catastrophe, loss and humiliation, and the Jews call it the Independence war.”

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The sort of thing you can hear in café conversations from morons who drink too much (22 July 2007)

President Sarkozy thinks the French should stop thinking so much and be more like the Americans.

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Against God's design (22 July 2007)

Unlike American evangelicals, the Pope thinks God dislikes war.

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Still parlor tricks (21 July 2007)

The rise of roboethics.

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Initially reluctant (21 July 2007)

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Are We Normal? (21 July 2007)

David Segal states on RI Future that Rhode Island is normal. Note that this is only true for very narrow definitions of “normal.”

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Bush bans torture (21 July 2007)

The head of the CIA wasn’t sure whether torture was ok before now.

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Almost time to invade Britain (21 July 2007)

The British military has “virtually no reserves left,” and therefore, “almost no capability to react to the unexpected.”

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Spanish cartoonist may be jailed for mocking royalty (21 July 2007)

A Spanish cartoonist faces possible jail time for a (frankly, hilarious) cartoon mocking the royal family.