“Unlike many Canadian rock bands that grew in the mid-’90s and then all seemed to break up in the same three-year period, Our Lady Peace remained together through thick and thin. Some blame the break-up of the Watchmen, Moist, Tea Party, Big Wreck and several others on the erosion of MuchMusic support for Canadian bands. […]
“Always be able to kill your students.” Grand Master Masaaki Hatsumi, the 76-year-old man who bills himself as the world’s last ninja
Tag: sociology
“1+1=2. Mathematics doesn’t get any more basic than this, but even 1+1 would stump the brightest minds among the Piraha tribe of the Amazon… The hunter-gatherers seem to be the only group of humans known to have no concept of numbering and counting. Not only that, but adult Piraha apparently can’t learn to count or […]
“I’ve got a different theory. YouTube and MySpace are runaway hits because they combine two attributes rarely found together in tech products. They’re easy to use, and they don’t tell you what to do.” Paul Boutin
Tags: design, simplicity, technology, web
“Rewind the clock back to 1993. Wu-Tang had people going nuts. Never before had the hip-hop world seen so many vibrant personalities in one group. Now, be honest, did you ever think Ghostface would have emerged as the biggest star in the group? Meth, ODB, GZA, RZA, Raekwon, and, arguably, Inspectah Deck would all have […]
“You’ve seen that repeatedly if you watch much religious television. The health-wealth-and-prosperity gospel advocated by so many televangelists is the ultimate example of this kind of fantasy faith… Christ is no longer the focus of the message. While His name is mentioned from time to time, the real focus is inward, not upward. People are […]
“Some people call me the human calendar while others run out of the room in complete fear. Most have called it a gift, but I call it a burden. I run my entire life through my head every day and it drives me crazy!!!” “AJ”, on her unique ability to perfectly and instantly recall details […]
“By Jove, this is what I wanted to do.” Physicist Owen Chamberlain, on search for antiprotons—a discovery that would later win his Nobel Prize in physics.
Tags: science, work
“JDate lists the following relationship status choices: Single, Divorced, Separated, and Widowed. It seems that most young adults on the site seem to shy away from meeting widows. If you ask me, ‘Separated’ sounds like it would be more trouble.” ShaBot 6000
Tags: fear, love, social, statistics, technology
“That’s the one thing we’ve always had in common. It’s what made us what we are. More than anyone in the world, when you scratch everything else away from Batman, you’re left with someone who doesn’t want to see anybody die.” Superman, Kingdom Come #3
Tags: comics, food, social