January 2011
34 posts
“‘It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.’”
– The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
Watchbonparisien:
The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and...
Poor Matthew Mcconaughey can't stand up by himself →
Evidence as presented.
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha (via ageofreason)
Wise was Buddha.
“As I look out the window, I see a very beautiful planet that seems very inviting...”
– Astronaut SCOTT KELLY, brother-in-law of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and twin brother of her husband, Mark Kelly, in a statement made from aboard the International Space Station; the crew had observed a moment of silence in honor of the Tucson shooting victims.
(Via the BBC)
“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that...”
– George Carlin. (via brittanibotulism)
Carlin. Ever the genius.
WatchS-11 Redux (by (r)evolutiontheory)
Interesting look back at was over 9 years ago now. It has always been about globalization in my mind, more so than an us-vs-them or Christianity-vs-Islam, which was the angle the talking heads took to convince everyone, if only briefly, that getting some payback was justified.
Now as the US (and Canada) roll towards nearly a decade worth of occupation in the...
