Interesting video trailer. I disapprove of the anti-hero’s actions but just because his targets are so annoying, I wouldn’t really hate him either. What an odd moral position to be in.
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Steve Jobs at Pearly gates
The New Yorker cover showing Steve Jobs at the Pearly gates.
[Condé Nast, The New Yorker Digital Edition / Oct 17, 2011.]
Oh but he is a Buddhist.
It’s cheaper to kill her
A week ago, a minivan driver knock a toddler down in China and then ran over her again. He offers an upsetting explanation to his behavior:
The minivan driver who knocked Wang down, and then ran over her deliberately, has since surrendered to the police, but offered a curious explanation for his action. He said he had been talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl, but decided to run her over because it would have cost him less to pay off a dead girl’s parents than to pay for her hospital expenses.
“If she had died, I would have been required to pay only about 20,000 yuan (about Rs 1.5 lakh) in compensation, but if she were injured, it would cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan in hospital expenses,” he said.
Source: First Post
The quote left me with disgust.
Some Chinese are quick to attribute the moral decline to increasing urbanization in China.
Watch the North Koreans mourn
The respected leader comrade Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) whom the Korean and world people hold in high esteem is revered today as the greatest leader of the working class who with extradordinary wisdom,outstanding ablity of leadership and lofty communist virtues,has been devoting all his life to the sacred cause of the revolution for the independence of the working masses.
Watch the masses cry at the first minute:
Death of the Father of the Socialist Homeland (1/3)
Great Leader Kim Il Sung (1912-1994)
During the long period since he embarked on the road of revolution at an early age,the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung led the unprecedently arduous and complex Korean revolution to victory and made a great contribution to the world revolution.
“The revolutionary peoples, communists and revolutionaries of all the world are calling Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great Leader of the 40 million Korean people, ‘an outstanding strategist of the international revolutionary movement,’ ‘the leader of the liberation movement of the whole world,’ ‘a distinguished leader of the tricontinental peoples’ and ‘a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle.’ They speak of him with boundless respect and veneration.
Epicurus on death
Yet another Epicurus quote:
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us,
since so long as we exist, death is not with us;
but when death comes, then we do not exist.It does not then concern either the living or the dead,
since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more— Epicurus (BC 341-270)
Google to shut down Wave
Google announces that Google Wave is to be no more, amongst reasons cited are that it hasn’t gain the traction Google has hoped for. This is hardly surprising for me, Google Wave is just too complex for most. It tries to be everything and failed to stand out.
(It’s time to wave goodbye.)
Update on Google Wave
Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.
Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web. (Source: Google Blog)
RIP. And thank goodness I didn’t explore the Google Wave API much.
Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at age 100
French anthropologist and ethnologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, passed away a week ago at age 100:
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called “primitive man” transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100.
His son Laurent said Mr. Lévi-Strauss died of cardiac arrest Friday at his home in Paris. His death was announced Tuesday, the same day he was buried in the village of Lignerolles, in the Côte-d’Or region southeast of Paris, where he had a country home.
A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss, in studying the mythologies of primitive tribes, transformed the way the 20th century came to understand civilization itself. Tribal mythologies, he argued, display remarkably subtle systems of logic, showing rational mental qualities as sophisticated as those of Western societies.
Mr. Lévi-Strauss rejected the idea that differences between societies were of no consequence, but he focused on the common aspects of humanity’s attempts to understand the world. He became the premier representative of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. (Source: New York Times)
Okay. Now I shall admit — I thought he made jeans.