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周星馳 Stephen Chow is a wonderful proponent of intelligent self ironic madhouse Chinese cinema humor.
Links: Stephen Chow wikipedia.org
Last.fm has existed for some time on the Internet as an Internet radio station with lots of cool radio stations for any imaginal taste, but now something super cool as happened to Last.fm. Last.fm as trancended into something entirely new - a hassle free super cool social music player. Last.fm scrubbles your favorite music from your iTunes or MP3 player (Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile), learns about your music preferences from you, so you can share and receive preferences from others as you wish. Last.fm off curse integrates with your iPod and iPhone. And Last.fm integrates Firefox through the fire plugin. The design is simple, strict and slick in red, white and black - like the designers abc - exactly the way I like it.
Check it out.. its super cool - and companies like Apple should learn from, integrate or even buy Last.fm
Links:
Last.fm
Fire.fm 1.1.3 Firefox plugin
“A good day” Brother David Steindl-Rast by recommendation of a spiritual friend.
Link: gratefulness.org
This means “complete, unsurpassed, perfect enlightment.” Notice, though, that the sutra first says the bodhisattva has nothing to attain and that, because of having nothing to attain, he attains complete liberation. You can’t attain liberation the way you attain a 1968 Camaro or D-plus on a math test. You can only attain liberation by clearly seeing there is nothing to attain.
Hardcore Zen, Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth of Reality by Brad Warner
ISBN 9780861713806
Link:
Buddhahood wikipedia.org
p. 81
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
I’m sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden back.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Links:
Mindfulness wikipedia.org
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’
Background:
Texas executes Mexican murderer BBC 6. August 2008
Court seeks to stay US executions BBC 16. July 2008
Perspective:
UN votes for death penalty freeze BBC 18. December 2007
Who stands where on the death penalty BBC 30. December 2006
Death Penalty Information Center deathpenaltyinfo.org
When I see a butterfly, I smile.
With my eyes I chase the butterfly, my body following.
The butterfly flutters, aimless here and there.
I think, am I not like the butterfly? 
I smile.
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