I now have Panther pretty much installed on this machine. Initial reactions will come as they come, but Expose is rather cool. Here’s a movie (that’s running on a G5, not my G3 — but the difference is not that much).
Amusing deconstruction of Microsoft’s “uh, yeah, we’re cool, don’t look at that iTunes for Windows junk” press release.
George Bush: “Trying to eliminate Saddam .. would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible … We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq …there was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations’ mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.”
No, not Dubya. Too bad Dubya didn’t pay attention to his dad’s writings …
From Neil Gaiman:
You know, if I were a devout believer directing a film about Christ, and my lead actor got struck by lightning, such that smoke came out of his ears… struck by lightning not once, but twice, I might take it as a gentle suggestion of displeasure from the viewing public on high. Er… http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/24/gibson.passion/
I saw a somewhat smaller version of this picture on Google News. Their names are Ruben Israel and Stephen James. Their signs say “God Hates You Sodomite Abortionist Drunkards Just the Way You Are,” and “Support President Bush, Trust Jesus.” Just in case you’ve never seen something that raw and awful before.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman: “It’s not a time for rookies.” Give me a break, Senator.
Members of the movie industry are complaining that this new technology is causing great harm to the personal lives of their workers and will practically close down the industry if left unchecked. “Half the legitimate theatres in New York will be out of business as such within ten years,” claims the article. Peer-to-peer sharing? No … they’re talking about the inspid threat of talkies.
Hear-frickin’-hear, Becky Miller:
“And if we decent, honest, hard-working, patriotic, true-blue conservatives of this country neglect the duty we have to our children and grandchildren, we will never be able to work with those decent, honest, hard-working, patriotic, true-blue liberal Americans that these lying creeps have taught us to despise. We will never be safe to debate them or, when warranted, to listen to them and maybe even agree with them. We will never be safe to work out our differences or to work together. And we will never be able to build on the all-American sense of unity that burst forth following 9/11, only to disappear shortly thereafter in a cloud of lying, greedy partisan politics.”
I read this tale on the Urban Legends Reference Pages. It is a fable being passed off as truth. What I find most insulting about the story is the underlying belief by the tale-teller that a fireman who was killed saving a pregnant woman would be nevertheless be condemned to hell had he not embraced Christianity.
Pat Robertson recently said, “If I could just get a nuclear device inside of Foggy Bottom, I think that’s the answer.” (Foggy Bottom is a name for the U.S. State Department.) Pat Robertson is currently being detained by the Department of Homeland Security and will most likely be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. No, not really. But you should really wonder why not.
Steve Bartman may be hated by a great deal of Chicagoans (I’ve recanted and decided that although he was an idiot, he’s both apologetic and most definitely not entirely to blame), he’s now going to be portrayed by Kevin James (of CBS’ “King of Queens”) in a television movie called “Fan Interference.” I can’t quite see how that momentary blunder is going to adequately hold up a TV movie. Then again, it’s a TV movie. It doesn’t need to hold up.
Evidently Candle & Soap Making for Dummies was really written by a dummy.
The Microsoft Public Relations Department interviews a Microsoft executive in charge of media, and, surprise, surprise, talk trash about iTunes for Windows. I’m just so surprised, aren’t you? 
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, of a 1993 battle with a Muslim militia leader: “I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.” I bet the millions of American Muslims out there are feeling just so peachy keen secure right about now.
Supermodel Heidi Klum’s ahem … endowments … broke a $8 million bra.
Since I never listen to the radio, this site isn’t particularly useful — but if I did, it’d be INCREDIBLY useful.
Stratton Sclavos, CEO of Verisign: “It’s time for the Internet infrastructure to go commercial. On the core services of the infrastructure, it’s time to pull the root servers away from volunteers who run them out of a university or lab or some other level.” Well, nice that he said it that straight out. “Gimme the Internet! Gimme, gimme, gimme!”
God, Bush is really trying hard to be Mr. Evil President, isn’t he?
The latest proposal involves an interpretation of the Endangered Species Act that deviates radically from the course followed by Republican and Democratic administrations since President Nixon signed the act in 1973. The law established broad protection for endangered species, most of which are not native to America, and effectively prohibited trade in them.
Kenneth Stansell, assistant director for international affairs at Fish and Wildlife, said there has been a growing realization that the Endangered Species Act provides poor countries no incentive to protect dying species. Allowing American hunters, circuses and the pet industry to pay countries to take fixed numbers of animals from the wild would pay for conservation programs for remaining animals, he said.
What would your name look like in Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Oh, yes, very tasteful. (Isn’t there something against letting it touch the ground — 4 US Code 1 §8(b), to be precise?)
Warren Ellis as Spider Robinson:
“They comprehend only that Jerry Orbach is immortal. They watch and divine from the show that he outlives the young gods who are selected to be his assistants. Criminals fall. DAs change. Assistants fade away. Jerry Orbach is forever. Jerry Orbach is, in fact, some kind of avenging God-King who will hunt and incarcerate Scum until the end of time.
[...]
“Speaking of which, here’s the President. Not the real President, you understand. [...] No, he’s long gone. I’m talking about the Acting President. The one who wasn’t elected. The one who looks like one of those f&151;king experimental Chimp-Things we used to stick electrodes in and fire into space. The worst thing is that I used to know the bastard. Back then, he was simply Junior, living large in Texan sinbins at night while his crazed Daddy ran naked among his cattle herds, his awful ululating howl echoing across the plains as he brought down another cow with his garotte.”
Graphic as hell (I didn’t show you anything near the worst), but nevertheless funny.
I saw “Kill Bill” last night. It was absolutely fucking fantastic!
“Syncretism: the combination of different forms of belief or practice.”
Found that word in a Christian review of Diane Duane’s Young Wizard novels. It’s interesting. I think I might be able to be friends with this “Rose” if I knew her in real life. They have these wonderful moments of humor (”The religious setting is fuzzy; there’s a god named Frith, and a Death-figure called the Black Rabbit of Inle. And they don’t have marriage. But, well, they’re rabbits. I don’t think it’s a problem.”), but then they also refer to some other novels I consider favorites as “[not being] a total sink of depravity,” which is kind of pissy and judgmental.
Let’s grab another definition out of Merriam-Webster, shall we?
“depraved: marked by corruption or evil; especially : PERVERTED”
Nuh-uh. Not Diane Duane’s stuff. Sorry.
And speaking of Duane, you just have to read this entry of hers, too. Hilarious.
An excellent review of the new CBS Friday drama “Joan of Arcadia,” which I’ve seen about three or four episodes of and highly recommend.
Verisign is bringing back their Internet-destroying Site Finder service.
Laughin’ my ASS off with this one … (”That’s the index.”)
Pointed out on FARK: Agent Smith’s car in Matrix: Reloaded is IS 5416. Check out what Isaiah 54:16 is.
It’s Wicca Barbie. (Seriously.)
Good news and bad news about Alyson Hannigan. Good news: getting her own comedy! Bad news: married (damn it!)
Jessica Simpson’s cartoonishly bimboness. Although, as her father suggests on TV Guide, I think it’s highly possible she’s faking it. (I do not have cable, though, so have never seen it.)
BBC correspondent Wesley Crusher Wil Wheaton.
Evidently, the Beatles are being old farts.
How cool is this … a guy who was just a fan did a test CGI animation of a favorite character and may have gotten a job out of it …
A very sobering and even somewhat sickening link, but an important one to view, I think. But hard. I equate what I see at this link to Holocaust photographs: it’s a duty to bear witness, but it’s not an easy one.
Pretty incredible spiritual analysis of Pulp Fiction …
Oh dear God … *chuckle* …
Actual “arrrrr!” pirates, you may remember, took what wasn’t theirs. Music piracy is certainly all the rage now, but how about when employers claim they own their employees’ off-duty creations? Just happened with a popular Mac OS X piece of software called Netflix Fanatic. To me, this author’s employer has committed an illegal act of theft and should be punished for it.
Finally! Panther brings us a button to renew a cable modem’s DHCP lease. I’ve been waiting for that one since Mac OS 9.
How cool is this? You too can purchase a “frah-gee-lee” leg lamp. (You have to have watched A Christmas Story to get the reference.)
A bit of an atypical speech for Archie …
And, while we’re at it, the Theory of Jughead.
This guy doesn’t seem to quite get the idea of what cybersex is supposed to be.
Evilly funny.
Dominatrix + Strawberry Shortcake = this image.
Target’s 2003 Halloween campaign is based on the plastic masks that people wear … kinda nostalgic. I like it.
If I flew a lot, I might buy and carry one of these. Since I haven’t flown in nearly a decade (no particular reason or need to do so), though …
This is kinda cool. By doing absolutely no painting but just by gently mucking with the emulsion, they made this photograph into a very Van Gogh-ish picture. More here and here.
Yes, you too can have your computer’s disk drive and animated GIF send the peaceful prayer of compassion in all directions — according to the Dalai Lama, believe it or not.
For the first time, the United States has declared a website to be a terrorist organization. So by visiting that site (I’ve not linked to it — that link’s to a Slashdot story), you could be conspiring with terrorists.
An amusing note on Malcolm X and the packaging for Mac OS X 10.3.
Never knew this. Interesting. What is, in the U.S., a billion is, in the U.K., a milliard. What is, in the U.K., a billion is, in the U.S., a trillion. More here.
Amusing “Marvin” today. And ain’t that the truth. (I feel more like the husband.)
The FBI first says, “Journalists, you’re ordered to turn over all notes about Adrian Lamo.” Journalists go, “Excuse-frickin’-me?” The FBI says, “Whoops.” And the Bill of RIghts gets one more provision crossed off.
By the way, Lamo was what they called a “white hat,” so I’d love to know why the hell he’s being prosecuted. He’d break into corporations’ computers but then go to them and explain exactly how he did it so they could fix themselves!
And, in a similar ‘whoops’ category, remember my post about the Shift key disabling copy protection software? Well, SunnComm was ready to sue the guy under the DMCA (ah, the most piece-of-sh-t law in existence!) because their company’s value dropped by about $10 million. Which is a shame, but hell, if your company’s value is that volatile, then don’t frickin’ make your software that easy to hack, schmoes!
People are just getting really damn slimy, and I’m getting really angry about it.
For example, the pro-war people … well, now they’re signing soldiers’ names to letters they didn’t write:
“When I told him he wrote such a good letter, he said: ‘What letter?’ ” Timothy Deaconson said Friday, recalling the phone conversation he had with his son, Nick. “This is just not his (writing) style.”
He spoke to his son, Pfc. Nick Deaconson, at a hospital where he was recovering from a grenade explosion that left shrapnel in both his legs.
And now the Department of Homeland Security is deporting its own employees’ fiancees … and the tale is right out of Orwell.
We’re getting close to a tyranny. Really darn close. I am only praying that enough of America is going to be so incredibly ticked off that they’ll flatten the Republican administration right out of office, and that the various problems with Diebold e-voting doesn’t enable people (*coughBUSHcough*) to easily rig the 2004 elections.
CNet News: “Microsoft has won a patent for an instant messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message.” This is definitely what the problem with our current patent system is: instead of allowing inventors to protect their property, it’s become a situation where the Patent Office allows the most simple of ideas to be patented and thus allows intellectual property warfare at the expense of the public domain and general intelligence and development … 
Wowzers. This is … well, just weird. But a bit fun.
I had mild respect for PETA once upon a time. But now, I just think they’re fucking nuts. This was my first sign that they were jerks: MassKilling.Com. I’m sorry, but comparing eating meat to the painful death of millions upon milions of sentient human beings is just hideous. And today, we find that when PETA heard about the savage mauling of Roy (of Siegfried & Roy), they felt it very necessary to fax a letter to Roy’s bedside urging Siegfried and Roy to retire their animals and build a sanctuary for them. PETA Vice President Dan Mathews wrote:
“The only natural thing that happened on that stage was that this majestic animal lashed out against a captor who was beating him with a microphone because he wouldn’t do a trick.
“No matter how much you say that you love the wild animals whom you have confined continents away from their natural homes, you are still the men who have subjugated their wills and natures to further your own careers.
“Perhaps Friday’s frightening incident will make you realize that a brightly lit stage with pounding music and a screaming audience is not the natural habitat for tigers, lions, or any other exotic animals.”
If you feel the urge to call Mathews and tell him he’s a bonehead, his work number is (757) 622-7382, according to PETA’s press releases.
AP News, as quoted by Jason Kottke: “Bush said he insulates himself from the ‘opinions’ that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories. ‘I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news,’ the president said. ‘And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.’” So basically, our President’s only connection with the outside world is what his people tell him. Oh, yeah, that’s good.
An idea about a technical way to end spam.
Developing a CD-Copy Protection System: $49.7 million. Finding out that pressing the Shift key disables it: priceless.
Forget to renew your domain name? It’s okay, MP3.Com did, too.
Laura, if you’ve not been following Sluggy, you might enjoy this strip. (So might everybody, actually.)
This is definitely one of the steps to bring is closer to a police state in Dubya’s America: the FBI subpoenaing journalists’ “notes, e-mails, impressions, interviews with third parties, independent investigations, privileged conversations and communications, off the record statements, and expense and travel reports.” That ACLU commercial with Ashcroft crossing off parts of the Bill of Rights is becoming more and more prescient. God, I hope we get a Democrat into office in 2004. More on Slashdot.
Ever realize that there actually is a dark side to supermarket loyalty cards? I guess anything that tracks your purchases like that for marketing purposes … the part about ‘defiance costs’ and ‘high-low supermarkets’ was actually more than a bit interesting …
*chuckle*
I’m losing my hair. I will not ever, ever do this.
The perfect way to induce nausea during computer use.
If you enjoyed the movie “Run Lola Run,” you’ll want to visit here. Plus, Franka Potente is not harsh on the eyes.
Did you ever catch the 1980s cartoon “Laverne & Shirley in the Army“? Check up on that and others you missed … I remember a lot of the ones featured on that page, including the “Teen Wolf” cartoon, the “Beetlejuice” cartoon (that one mostly due to heavy afternoon syndication), the “Back to the Future” cartoon, and, of course, the “Real Ghostbusters” cartoon. That last one was pretty amazingly written …
This is the definitive story on where Murphy’s Law originated. Believe it or not, there actually was a Murphy, and the tale involved in its origin has its origins in the embryo of the space program. It’s a pretty captivating tale …
PC World: “When Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt. [...] Well, we’ll take that salt with a side of fries.”
Apple Computer job listing: “We are looking for a Software developer responsible for the design, implementation and testing of a Screen Reader application on Mac OS X that needs to be built from scratch. The application will convert all on-screen data (text, objects and controls) to speech or braille enabling a blind or partially signed user to use a Mac.”
Max Cleland:
“The president of the United States decides to go to war against a nation led by a brutal dictator supported by one-party rule. That dictator has made war on his neighbors. The president decides this is a threat to the United States.
“In his campaign for president he gives no indication of wanting to go to war. In fact, he decries the overextension of American military might and says other nations must do more. However, unbeknownst to the American public, the president’s own Pentagon advisers have already cooked up a plan to go to war. All they are looking for is an excuse.
“Based on faulty intelligence, cherry-picked information is fed to Congress and the American people. The president goes on national television to make the case for war, using as part of the rationale an incident that never happened. Congress buys the bait — hook, line and sinker — and passes a resolution giving the president the authority to use ‘all necessary means’ to prosecute the war.
“The war is started with an air and ground attack. Initially there is optimism. The president says we are winning. The cocky, self-assured secretary of defense says we are winning. As a matter of fact, the secretary of defense promises the troops will be home soon.
“However, the truth on the ground that the soldiers face in the war is different than the political policy that sent them there. They face increased opposition from a determined enemy. They are surprised by terrorist attacks, village assassinations, increasing casualties and growing anti-American sentiment. They find themselves bogged down in a guerrilla land war, unable to move forward and unable to disengage because there are no allies to turn the war over to.
“There is no plan B. There is no exit strategy. Military morale declines. The president’s popularity sinks and the American people are increasingly frustrated by the cost of blood and treasure poured into a never-ending war.”
Iraq? No, Vietnam. Interesting editorial: “Mistakes of Vietnam Repeated with Iraq“. One wonders if we had a President who didn’t avoid his military service, if things would’ve been different … as the author of the article says, “Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Sorry you didn’t go when you had the chance.”
This is really kind of funny: a celebrity visits his own fan forum and is derided as a fake … until everyone does a sycophantic “oh shit” when his identity’s confirmed.
Are you a bright? Would you vote for one? An interesting study (by the inventor of the word “meme”) in how changing what you call something can change its acceptance level.
The Vatican is currently drafting a directive that cracks down on “liturgical abuses” of the mass, including clapping or dancing at Mass. (The Vatican is evidently unfamiliar with certain Bible verse.) It also advocates against use of non-Biblical language, e.g., readings from poets.
I looked at the Associated Press photograph posted with this story, and it wasn’t too hard to picture the justice playing Solitaire …
To hell with Apple’s new wireless mouse, still with just one frickin’ button … Microsoft has a leatherclad one! Hubba hubba!
This is a pretty amazing story about the generosity of someone currently stationed in Iraq, as well as a nice instance of corporations not always having to be certified schmucks. It won’t be up after mid-October, though, probably.
Oh, this is just a lot of fun. You know how celebrities go over to Japan and do commercials because no one from America will ever see them? Say thank you to the Internet.
A funny listen: California gubernatorial candidates’ speeches with their words removed. All you can hear is their breathing and miscellaneous “uhhs”. It’s actually kinda fun, especially with Ahnold.
Proof, I suppose, that celebrities can look nasty, too.
When Hurricane Isabel hit Washington D.C., the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown stayed at their posts in hurricane-force winds.
Is nuclear waste shipped near where you live? Thanks to the Wonder of the Internet ™, you too can find out! (All I can say is … crap.)
My favorite Onion article of late: “Idaville Detective ‘Encyclopedia’ Brown Found Dead in Library Dumpster.” (I grew up reading the Encyclopedia Brown books.)
Read a New York Times interview with a spammer.
Australia: Don’t use a cell phone while driving! Even if it’s while driving a horse & buggy, damn it!
An interview with the creator of Google News.
Very humorous plagiarism lawsuit, claiming that Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic was a “smokescreen” so that Fox could steal the movie idea from someone else …
Very amusing Sluggy comic … Laura, something tells me you’ll like this one, especially …
The MPAA has gone so frothily mad over movie piracy that it’s beginning to eat itself. The first signs: it’s banned screener copies of movies (useful for Academy members to evaluate films prior to their votes) and is putting big, brown, very visible spots in the middle of its films …
An interview with John Perry Barlow by Mother Jones. Some interesting excerpts:
“What it’s going to take is for some of these initiatives to actually start affecting people out in the ‘burbs. But they’re so insensate at the moment, that one wonders how much it will take to effect them. Right now, it’s very easy for your standard suburban television idiot to assume that this is all about people who are not like him. And his rights are not involved. By the time he finds out that his rights have been involved, they may have been so thoroughly eroded that he may never be able to get them back. But you as the Navajo say, ‘It’s impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep.’ And I think that mostly what America is doing is pretending to be asleep.
“Actually I’m discouraged with the role of the Internet in the antiwar movement. Because so far what I see happening is that cyberspace is a great place for everybody to declaim. There are a million virtual streetcorners with a million lonely pamphleteers on them, all of them decrying the war and not actually coming together in any organized fashion to oppose it. It strikes me that existing political institutions — whether it’s the administration or Congress or large corporations — only respond to other institutions. I don’t care how many individuals you have marching in the streets, they’re not going to pay attention until there’s a leader for those individuals who can come forward and say I represent the organization of those individuals and we’re going to amass the necessary money and votes to kick you the hell out of office. Then they pay attention. But not until. And so right at the moment it would strike me that the Internet is counterproductive to peace.
“Despite the fact that Deadheads had better recordings of all of our songs than we were putting out commercially, just about all of our albums have gone platinum over the years. Having the noncommercial version of information does not appear to operate genuinely as an inhibition against getting the commercial version.”
“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke and, just think, you can drink Coke too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” — Andy Warhol
I never knew this, but it’s actually quite hilarious: Rush Limbaugh is quite an Apple fan, but he just can’t get in the door with the management.
Ironically enough, some CEOs of telemarketing companies registered with the federal Do-Not-Call list.
SUCCESS! Woo-hoo! Eat it, Verisign!
This is more than a little bit racy … if any relative of mine goes to this link, don’t tell me about it … but yeeeeeshhh!
I both agree and disagree with Teevee’s reviews of some of the new shows out this season.
Surprise! This year’s Ig Nobel Prize in biology goes to the scientist who recorded the “first recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.”
This set of Halloween costumes would have Beavis & Buttheads having epileptic fits of “huh huh, huh huh, huh huh” …
Evidently, the iBook is going to be in for a new look very soon … ah, well. I’ll start drooling as soon as I see the new one, I’m sure. *rolls eyes*
The poetry of George W. Bush, Jr.:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Oh my, lump in the bed
How I’ve missed you.
Roses are redder
Bluer am I
Seeing you kissed by
that charming French guy.
The dogs and the cat,
they missed you too
Barney’s still mad you dropped him,
he ate your shoe
The distance, my dear,
has been such a barrier
Next time you want an adventure,
just land on a carrier.
Seriously. (He calls his wife “lump in the bed”? How frickin’ romantic.)
[And in a recent split 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court appointed Bush the country's new poet laureate ... ;-)]
I just heard this song … I haven’t heard it since literally when I must have been a child. It’s funny when you access a memory you haven’t access in decades … there’s a definite weight to it.
The Chicago City Council just passed a resolution condemning the PATRIOT Act. Only problem is that they watered it down considerably, evidently, before passing it …
And, winning the Majorly Frickin’ Tasteless Award, the Humane Society uses Roy’s mauling (of Siegfried & Roy) to release a press release against keeping big cats as pets …
An open-source program in use by the University of Florida, ICARUS, restricts Kazaa-style file sharing. However, it also evidently prevents a lot of gaming, and “>this Wired article explores its other impacts … although, personally, methinks it’s a bit too biased towards the positive, an unusual slant for that website.
My sister is very, very, very cool. She had Terry Pratchett sign a copy of Monstrous Regiment for me! (Pratchett writes great stuff — I picked up a used copy of Night Watch and really enjoyed it. And his Monty Python-esque Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) should be read by everyone who has a mouth and likes to laugh with it.
I read things like this and I often wonder if I would have been as opposed to the war if a Democratic president had sent troops over there. I dunno. Dubya’s got to be out of office come 2004, but firsthand accounts like this make me wonder if it was a Good Thing, not a Bad One …
“News Item (Oct. 1, 2001): The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announces he can end global terrorism by creating a “spiritual force field,” but he would need $1 billion in donations to do it. Last chance for any takers. Going … going … ”
Good point: celebrities can look quite ugly, too …
Definitely in the ‘bizarre‘ category, this one. This one too.
This quote was in tonight’s West Wing episode, and it sure is poignant.
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. You may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. You may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, nor establish love. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?,” 1967
Oh, cripes. Putting this sucker on endless repeat is officially classified as illegal torture by the Geneva Convention. (Ditto with this, although the music on that page is designed to be annoying.)
If you’re a Mac user, you’ll like this article.
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