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All I want to be,
is someone that makes new things.
And thinks about them. — John Maeda
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In Passing
What’s Wrong with GM?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with GM:
Total compensation per hour for the big-three carmakers is $73.20. That’s a 52 percent differential from Toyota’s (Detroit South) $48 compensation (wages + health and retirement benefits). In fact, the oversized UAW-driven pay package for Detroit is 132 percent higher than that of the entire manufacturing sector of the [...]
Soundtrack for Saturn
Golly, it sounds like Forbidden Planet.
Via the appropriately named Babe in the Universe.
Dollhouse
I’d watch Eliza Dushku read a phone book cold anyway, just because she’s fun to look at, but the girl can actually act and this is going to show her chops.
Joss Whedon can write. Really write.
This should be a killer show.
Not So Serious
more animals
In Memoriam
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager [...]
Serious
In Flanders Fields
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with [...]
It’s not easy being green
This was a favorite song even before Kermit (who happens to be exactly my age) sang it.
(What do you mean Kermit’s not real?)
Now you’re going to tell me Ray Charles isn’t real either.
Or Frank Sinatra.
Or Lena Horne.