March 2011
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Gandhi was therefore the archetypal 20th-century progressive intellectual,...
– Book Review: Great Soul - WSJ.com
“At his monster rallies against Untouchability in the 1930s, which tens of thousands of people attended, the Untouchables themselves were kept in holding pens well away from the caste Hindus.”
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people...
– Douglas Adams (via vnvobit)
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Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
– Ani DiFranco
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) yesterday delivered its ruling in the...
– European Women’s Lobby
Gadhafi did not run Libya for the past 42 years because he was a fool, nor...
– Libya, the West and the Narrative of Democracy | STRATFOR
Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
Hear, hear..
Leaders by Katatonia
But it has been obvious all along that science and technology can deal only with...
– A Country’s Lasting Aftershocks - NYTimes.com
.. and also:
From within the daily lives of each one of us, a small light of hope will begin to glow. This is what I want to believe. Would it be too much to say that a person’s ability to harbor such an unlikely belief in the power of hope is also...
На чужд гръб и сто тояги са малко.
– A Bulgarian proverb of the day translating to “Even hundred lashes are not enough on someone else’s back.”
Our excessive consumption of energy has somehow become part of our very...
– A Country’s Lasting Aftershocks - NYTimes.com via Bembeni
Keeping Up with the Qaddafis - By Suzanne... →
flapjacksblog4 asked: I like candy, do you like candy?
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Why Textpattern?
I have missed the creative contest at the TXP forum, but since I’m not a fan of competitions, it makes it even better to write about my favourite CMS post factum.
It must have been in 2003 or 2004, or thereabout, that my friend, Herr Kaschke went on an online search for a CMS that would fit the needs of a small, blog-based website we had to launch at work. I think he went through a dozen at...
Textpattern Is my Gibson SG →
by C*2 / ChapmanCordova
On 5 January 1966, Korolev was admitted to hospital for what was supposed to be...
– Sergei Korolev: the rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin | The Observer