Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 185 views
"To avoid that deadly outcome, the new president will have to be equipped with a realistic vision of what this society can actually do to survive the discontinuities that circumstances present. This will require him to confront the prevailing delusion that the US can become "energy independent" in the sense ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 86 views
Piracy is so bad, according to the MPAA, that we need special legislation to target the dastardly college pirates who are destroying the business. It's so bad that Weekly Reader subscribers will learn about the $7 billion a year "lost" to Internet piracy. It's so bad that the MPAA wants ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 79 views
Hard to find in reality a family so unblessed.
The grandfather is a drug addict, the wife's brother a broken gay who tries suicide, the son mute since years for reaching the goal to become a pilot and later finds out he will never be able to because he is colours ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 90 views
One of the sounds I love is the sound, better, the music of the wind.
How can you listen to it?
With a wind chime.
It is something you usually hang out of your home, made by hollow or solid metal or wooden tubes, meant to be played by the wind.
They can be ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 86 views
Jody Foster struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
The perfect mirror of today's society.
The legal illegality and the not working justice has brought to this.
The illegal that becomes and is accepted as legal, at least morally.
The problem is that we invented civilisation ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 75 views
We want what we want and we want it now. No delay. No aggravation. No hassle, pain-free, our way, right away. We're a highly technical society in a land of plenty. We place a premium on efficiency and convenience. Tiny annoyances and inconveniences foul our moods and affect our behaviors. ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 87 views
A concept auto navigation garden watering system for 2015, the concept was introduced by a designer named Yopi Djauhar - currently studying in Product Design degree course in Limkokwing university, Malaysia.
By 2015, we might see Beyflo navigating on its own through your garden. It can refill water and recharge on ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 85 views
Frequently mistaken for a vocoder and more commonly known as "That Fucking Weird Computer Voice Thing," Auto-Tune is actually a brilliant piece of software. All you have to do is tell it which notes you're trying to hit while you're singing. When you fuck up, Auto-Tune makes the necessary adjustments ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 75 views
Once I lived in a place named Florida.
Summer all year long.
Sun and beaches.
Then last month I met somebody from Florida.
"I am going to move to Denver", "Why?” I asked kind of bewildered, "Because I am fed up with this hot weather".
I couldn't believe my ears, but then I began thinking.
What ...
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