Pissing in the gene pole – Henry Rollins
Art to Choke Hearts – Henry Rollins
Feuchtgebiete – Charlotte Roche
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Edward Lorenz was the pioneer in the creation of chaos and strange attractor theory. He also showed how small actions could lead to major changes in what became known as the “butterfly effect.
Dr. Ian Malcolm – There. Look at this. See? See? I’m right again. Nobody could’ve predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
Dr. Ellie Sattler – Alan? Alan!
Dr. Ian Malcolm – There’s, another example. See, here I’m now by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That’s, that’s chaos theory.
(quote from Jurassic Park)
More @wikipedia:
Edward Lorenz
Chaos theory
Strange attractor
(on my MacBook Air)
history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
18 fink
14 sudo
14 ls
12 vi
10 cowsay*
10 cd
9 source
8 export
7 ssh
4 path
Shu:~ hgeeratz$ cowsay "there is no authority but yourself "
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The Thai New Year (Thai: Songkran) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. It is also celebrated in Laos (called pi mai lao or ‘Lao New Year’ in Lao), Cambodia, Myanmar (where it is called Thingyan), and by the Dai people in Yunnan, China. Sri Lanka also celebrates a similar festival called Sinhalese and Tamil New Year on the same dates. The same date is celebrated widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, albeit based on the astrological event of the sun beginning its northward journey.
@wikipedia
by Eckart Wintzen Nice little book about Eckart Wintzen’s management philosophy. More info about Eckart Wintzen here: http://www.extent.nl/.
(Festival of the Steel Phallus) On the first Sunday of April each year,a festival is held at the Kanamara Shrine in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Tokyo. It’s known as the Kanamara Matsuri, or Festival of the Steel Phallus.
The festival dates back to the Edo period(1603-1867), when prostitutes would visit the shrine to pray for good business and protection from syphillis. At this time of year they would carry an image of the shrine’s phallus around the streets.
Verhalen – Jef Geeraerts
The Dharma of Star Wars – Matthew Bortolin:
“If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.”
The Dharma of Star Wars brings together the phenomenon of Star Wars with humanity’s profound hunger for the spiritual. Parade magazine recently declared “Jedi Knight” to be the “Best New Religion” and the UK Times reported, “It is George Lucas, rather than St. Luke, who taught today’s twentysomethings much of what they first learnt about right and wrong.” (And perhaps more famously: in a UK census, some 390,000 British citizens declared “Jedi” to be their official religion. Similarly, a census report in in Australia tallied 70,000 as followers of the Star Wars “faith.”) For many, Star Wars was their first taste of religious thought without the dogma and restrictions of organized religion. It awoke in them a certain spirituality that Buddhism, with its emphasis on personal inquiry and self-realization, so fluidly speaks to. The Dharma of Star Wars uses Buddhism and George Lucas’ powerful mythos to illuminate each other in a way that speaks directly to the heart.
More @ google books
@ Amazon
I changed the site design. Probably bugs will show up and I will hunt them down and kill them……
“William, are you interested in insects?” says Cronenberg, mostly for my benefit, a question that causes Burroughs to regard the two of us warily. “Not entirely,” he finally says. After a few minutes of completely addled discussion, Burroughs exclaims, “Oh, insects! I thought you said ~incest~.
“The most awful creature to me is the centipede,” he says. A number of them crawl slimily through the movie version of ~Naked Lunch~. “I don’t go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I’d wake up in the middle of the night, and I’d know there’s a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn’t go to sleep until I killed it.” Although he never hunts mammals and is even somewhat of an animal activist, Burroughs is quite an expert on killing bugs, having once held a job as an exterminator.