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Pandora’s Music Box
Pandora, a newly launched music service, presents what I’ve found to be the most intelligent, and accurate “relativity” engine for creating a custom online radio station. Some time ago, I was equally positive about Yahoo! Music’s Launchcast. And I must say, I am still quite enthusiastic about it. It has widened my musical horizon significantly, […]
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Creating Your Reality
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. ~ Erich Heller
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A Problem for Every Solution
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~ Robert Zend
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It’s All About You
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on Earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself […]
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drumatic : Space
Various extraordinary space images : Earth, the moon and moon landing shots, distant galaxies and stars captured with the Hubble telescope, space station / satellite shots, and more. 34 images. Space Gallery
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Propelled by Discomfort
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~ M. Scott Peck
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The Earth, According to Google
Google Earth. OK – so this is not exactly new news. Google picked up the technology from Keyhole, which has been around, in one form or another, since 2001. And a somewhat more scientifcally oriented application (as opposed to consumer/commercial) has been available for a couple years – NASA’s WorldWind. WorldWind also renders USGS data, […]
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Politics and War : A Means to an End
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. ~ John Adams
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Someone Will Say Anything
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. ~ Cicero
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You’re Both Right
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
