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Here is a good biking song. Best in the spring when you’re on your way back from a grocery store two towns away on a Sunday night.

1. Never recline your chair.
2. Do not sneeze. Learn how to hold them back.
3. Don’t press your neighbor to talk with you. Be polite and sparse in any conversation.
4. For the peace of mind of others (and for your own health), don’t touch your face unless absolutely necessary.
5. When plane lands and has been taxied and the door has been opened, be patient and don’t rush people, and especially don’t pass people in the deplaning queue. That is, the people in the rows ahead of you get to go first. Don’t rush them!

“The infinite turns out to be the contrary of what it is said to be. It is not what has nothing outside it that is infinite, but what always has something outside it.”

From Rebecca MacKinnon’s NYTimes OpEd “Stop the Great Firewall of America” published today:

The potential for abuse of power through digital networks — upon which we as citizens now depend for nearly everything, including our politics — is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. We live in a time of tremendous political polarization. Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so. This is no time for politicians and industry lobbyists in Washington to be devising new Internet censorship mechanisms, adding new opportunities for abuse of corporate and government power over online speech. While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

Slate recaps the new classics churned out during the first decade of the 2000s. I am proud to be part of such an exciting time with such great music, ideas etc.

This is interesting because it puts our reliance on fossil fuels in perspective. Despite the fact that our alarm clocks and computers may not themselves emit smog and pollution, their power source (coal power plant) does. The difference between our present reality and a dystopia is the extent to which we can continue separating our counterfeit abundance from the destruction it causes.

Mirages are optical phenomena caused by the refraction of light through heated air rising from a sandy or stony surface. They occur in the interior of the desert about 10 kilometers from the coast. They make objects that are 1.5 kilometers or more away appear to move.

 

Please accept our Personal Invitation for you to come to the famous Hare Krishna Sunday Feast and enjoy pure vegetarian banquets, talks from Bhagavad Gita, plays, films and music. Every Sunday 4.30pm at your local Hare Krishna Centre.

 

Studies also show that precognitive visions tend to be of tragedies, with premonitions of unhappy events outnumbering happy ones by a ratio of four to one. Presentiments of death predominate, with accidents coming in second, and illnesses third. The reason for this seems obvious. We are so thoroughly conditioned to believe that perceiving the future is not possible, our natural precognitive abilities have gone dormant. Like the superhuman strengths individuals display during life-threatening emergencies, they only spill over into our conscious minds during times of crisis–when someone near to us is about to die; when our children or some other loved one is in danger, and so on. That our “sophisticated” understanding of reality is responsible for our inability to both grasp and utilize the true nature of our relationship with time is evident in the fact that primitive cultures nearly always score better on ESP tests than so-called civilized cultures.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,

che la diritta via era smarrita.

 

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura

esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte

che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Greetings and hello from the phony world of airmail of the phony variety. Check out this awesome clip of Jason Mewes and Dave Grohl on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.

And then here’s another thing. Did you know David Lynch, the Director (and writer) of Lost Highway, (and Blue Velvet) –

– has a new album out? The album name is Crazy Clown Time. Find the right environment and state of mind and listen to it all the way though. It’s streaming on NPR’s website. There’s also a healthy Pirate Bay torrent for it. You could also buy it from your local record store, or Amazon. Anyway, regardless of what you do, you might enjoy this little taste of the album, the title track: