the library!

Alexandria is most famous for having been the site of the ancient library...Back in the days when people moved to information, instead of vice versa, this library attracted most of the most famous smart people in the world: the ultimate hacker, Archimedes;  the father of geometry, Euclid; Eratosthenes, who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the earth, by looking at the way the sun shone down wells at Alexandria and Aswan.  He also ran the library for a while and took the job seriously enough that when he started to go blind in his old age, he starved himself to death.  In any event, this library was burned out by the Romans when they were adding Egypt to their empire.  Or maybe it wasn't.  It's inherently difficult to get reliable information about an event that consisted of the destruction of all recorded information.

Neal Stephenson from the article "Mother Earth, Mother Board,"

 from Some Remarks:  Essays and Other Writing

you can read the full wired article here:  

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

this is a job for...

from rob, of course...

misfits!

"We had it all!  We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before up.  We were sooooooooooooo beautiful!!

  "We're screw-ups...I'm a screw-up.  And I plan to be a screw-up until my late 20's...or maybe even my early 30's.   And I will shag my own mother before I let anyone take that away from me!"

Nathan, episode 6

dutch treat...

the netherlands women's team...deserve a gold medal for the outfits alone...

"When commanders turn their backs, the shouts ring out: 'Punk will never die!'"

fgfgh

In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011 photo, Indonesian punk rock fans, their head shaved clean, march before prayer during their 'rehabilitation program' at a police school where they are detained in Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia. Mohawks buzzed and noses free of piercings, dozens of youths march in military-style for hours beneath Indonesia's tropical sun _ part of efforts by authorities to restore moral values and bring the 'deviants' back into the mainstream. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)

void standard!

"void standard" would make a great name for a punk/numetal band...
the phrase came about from aashna's comments on my slight growth of hair:
"It's too long on a bald standard and too short on a, you know,  hair standard, so it's kind of a void standard."

[in aashna-speak, "void" is the space between dimensions-it's a dr. who thing, of course...]

Hajj!!!

incredible!

caption:

This aerial image shows Muslim pilgrims moving around the Kaaba, the black cube seen at center, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws 2.5 million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)