Yummy Wakame

no rain cloud ever ruled the sky
without first defying the sun
no flower ever bloomed
without daring to break the seed
no baby chick was ever born
without daring to leave the shell
no painter ever achieved a masterpiece
without facing a blank canvas first
no climber ever viewed the top of Everest
without leaving the safety of the ground floor
no answer has ever been right
before risking it might be wrong
no happiness has ever been gained
without memories of pain being lost
the first I love you said to a friend
was given before confirmed by the other
no lovers’ lips ever touched
without daring the space in between
weak individuals dare not fail
great individuals dare succeed

~ Fresh Air

Scroll down and check out the movie! This is a fascinating low-budget documentary explaining Capitalism. It’s got me thinking…

Thanks Ken

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“There are 401 mystery wakame lovers visiting right now. Isn’t this cosy?”

Olivia hasn’t posted since last tuesday. Please tell us she isn’t front page news in the UK for something horrible!

Cyber Extortion Attack

How to get cheap flights!

“In the heart of Mali, West Africa there lives a tribe called the Dogon. Famous for their art and cosmology, they live around a 200-kilometer cliff band known as the Bandiagara.

In this week’s PhotoVoyage, Aurora photographer Jos?zel documents the Dogon people of the sub-Sahara. Join the Dogon as they climb the cliffs for pigeon guano and dance an ancient Dama that connects their dead to the next world.”

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One of my absolute favourite CDs in my music collection is Mali Music – a world music side project for the Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn where proceeds from the album’s sales benefit UNICEF. It’s filled with the most beautiful happy tracks bursting with atmosphere from Kela Village layered with a western influence, each one totally unique in sound.

Here’s a track to whet your appetite. Also check this out! Go on, add something special to your music collection!

… A Girl’s Guide To Geek Guys, but for the rest of you it’s an invaluable resource on how to attract and keep your favourite geek.

“Of course the best way to meet a geek dude is through the Internet. All geeks harbor a secret fantasy about meeting some girl in cyberspace, carrying on an e-mail romance in which he has the chance to combine an activity he is comfortable with, computing, with one he is very uncomfortable with, socializing. To many geek dudes, cyberdating is just an advanced form of some kind of video game, but they are frustrated by a lack of players. Their lack is your strength.”

“Mornings mean different things to different people. For many it’s the best part of the day when the air is fresh and the birds sing brightly. They jump out of bed at first light, make breakfast, read the morning paper and get ready for work.

Others can stay fully awake well beyond midnight, but snooze through three alarms in the morning and are forced to skip breakfast because they just can’t get out of the starting blocks quickly enough to arrive at work on time.”

The BBC Sleep Profiler says I’m an “Owl”:

“You are built to be at your best later in the day. Surprisingly, it also means your body clock is more flexible than people with standard or lark-like body clocks.
Ideally, people should wake at the same time everyday, but being an owl, you can probably cope quite well when your sleep pattern is disrupted.”

Yep. I can change my sleeping patterns from one day to the next, although it was so unfun when I had a full-time job and had to go to bed before midnight and at the same time every single night.

To a supertaster like me, strong cheeses are often too much to swallow. Did you know that buyric acid is the chemical that gives strong cheeses and vomit their distinctive smell? To most people however, strong cheeses can smell delicious.

Do the BBC Human Body & Mind Senses Challenge!

Star Wars is sexier than boobs
A Google search for Star Wars currently returns 38,600,000 results. Search for boobs and get 2,620,000 results. That’s all I’m saying.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English.
Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

yummy
“delicious,” 1899, from baby talk. Yum-yum as an exclamation of pleasure is recorded from 1878.

The World As I See It

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

Miko blogs: “The term “sexless”, adopted from English, first began to be used in Japan in the early 1990s. But now it is instantly recognizable to Japanese and widely discussed in the media. There are books on the subject and numerous websites, including heartbreaking blogs, while letters on the subject fill agony columns.

One woman writes: “I have been married for a year but we have had sex just a handful of times. I know my husband feels stress at work and don’t want to bother him. But I sometimes doubt he really loves me.”

The reason most commonly cited for lack of sex is tiredness from work. Japanese are famous for the long hours they work and their long commuting journeys. In Japan a marriage is called sexless if the couple does not have sex for at least a month, a period which many Japanese say is too short.

As many as one in five sexless couples say they view sex simply as a nuisance. A small number cite the lack of a private space, because children or elderly parents often sleep just the other side of a paper door.”

Okay, now this is yet another thing that I really thought was normal! In fact, I would go so far as to say that most couples in Japan are sexless (meaning that although they are married, share a home and a bank account, they rarely have sex – with each other) and I assumed that it was natural for couples to stop having sex (with each other) once they started living together. Some poor couples never even get started in the first place, which is part of the reason that the birthrate is so low. Believe me, I have had several women confide in me that they had not once had sex since marriage (with their husbands, that is), and others have told me that they did have sex, but only once a year on average – and yet they don’t contemplate divorce. Married couples are more like friends or siblings these days.

What’s wrong with that?
~ Miko

Gosh I’m so lucky to be surrounded by so many eligable British men…

Discovered by Miko!

“What are the indicators of finally achieving adult status these days? A good job and getting married and having kids and buying a house and saving for your retirement and always saying please and thank you to the point that the words don’t mean a thing and having the courteousy to eat all of your food when visiting the in-laws so that you don’t offend them when, hell, you don’t want to eat that much food. Christ, think about the size of your stomach.

I watch all of these rites of passage on TV or remember stories from when I was younger, 12 year old desert native boys eating peyote and going on spirit quests or those Africans who tie vines to their ankles and jump from fifty foot high towers to prove they have no fear… I’m not sure how this fits in, but I mentioned it anyway. You might be able to find a correlation.

But there’s nothing adult about pretending to enjoy something you don’t like, or giving up yourself for someone else’s happiness. A person can’t live their life in order to save another’s. All we have is our own happiness and as selfish as that sounds, if you are not happy then no one around you aren’t contributing to society in the way that I think everyone should, by giving off a true and realistic impression of who they really are.

If I knew that people didn’t like me from the beginning, it would be much easier to divert myself away from them. It’s not as easy as that, but it could be.” ~ ClickNathan

I’m anxiously waiting for good news.

Have you ever taken a close look at the way the Firefox logo depicts the world?

but extremely funny so watch it!

Princess Episode 1 – Princess Hears A Strange Noise
Princess Episode 2 – Princess Meets Officer Friendly

and for the grand finally

Abusive Jesus

The UK government tried, and failed, to get a national ID. Now they’re adding biometrics to their passports. According to the report: “Financing for the Passport Office is planned to rise from 182 million a year to 415 million a year by 2008 to cope with the introduction of biometric information such as fingerprints. A Home Office spokesman said the aim was to cut out the 1,500 fraudulent applications found through the postal system last year alone.”

Okay, let’s do the math. Eliminating 1,500 instances of fraud will cost 233 million a year. That comes to 155,000 per instance of fraud.

Does this kind of security trade-off make sense to anyone? Is there absolutely nothing better the UK government can do to ensure security and safety with 233 million a year?

article from: Bruce Schneier

HA!HA!HA!HA! this is just crazy, was it Camilla Parker Bowles who thought up this one.

A chav talks loudly on his mobile:

“Yeah. She’s being a real cow about it. She knows I want it and she wont give it. But yeah, I’m gonna get it. Not long from now. Just wearing her down day by day…… ah hah. ah hah……. yeah. I refuse to put up with her attitude. I can get it anywhere you know. Catch you later.”

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Their simple lyrics had a profound impact on me as a teen and have stuck with me through to adulthood.

Depeche Mode – A Question Of Time

I’ve got to get you first
Before they do
It’s just a question of time
Before they lay their hands on you
And make you just like the rest
I’ve got to get to you first
It’s just a question of time

Well now you’re only fifteen
And you look good
I’ll take you under my wing
Somebody should
They’ve persuasive ways
And you’ll believe what they say

It’s just a question of time
It’s running out for you
It won’t be long
Until you’ll do
Exactly what they want you to

I can see them now
Hanging around
To mess you up
To strip you down
And have their fun
With my little one

It’s just a question of time
It’s running out for you
It won’t be long
Until you’ll do
Exactly what they want you to

Sometimes I don’t blame them
For wanting you
You look good
And they need something to do
Until I look at you
And then I condemn them
I know my kind
What goes on in our minds

It’s just a question of time
It should be better
It’s just a question of time
It should be better with you
It’s just a question of time

Woo!

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