Hollywood has a new James Bond

Brosnan must be very angry. Why they didn't disclose the name of this brunette that will play Miss Moneypenny?

Math - The reason why they make it detestable

That's why:

Instead of the scary "solve the problem":




"Yippee! Yippee!
Have fun finding the right answer!"

One must imagine Sisyphus happy - Albert Camus

Excerpts from "The myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. You can find the whole text here. "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." "At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time without depth, the purpose is achieved. Then Sisyphus watches the stone rush down in a few moments toward that lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain." "It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock." "One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. "What!---by such narrow ways--?" There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness." "All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols. In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up." "I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus

Reporters Without Borders - Cybermanifestation to free journalists and denounce censorship at Internet

Click at the image to join the online protest. It's a beautiful experience they designed there to protect freedom of speech and to try to free cyber-dissidents: "At least 62 cyber-dissidents, Internet users and online journalists are currently imprisoned worldwide." . "Many different methods are used by governments to censor the Internet, including repressive legislation, monitoring Internet cafés and controlling ISPs. To denounce cyber-censorship and to demand more online freedom, Reporters Without Borders is calling on people to participate in online protests in nine countries that are internet enemies." I usually sign as much petitions I can of Reporters Without Borders. For those who are in US there's this petition asking to bring to justice for the responsibles of the murder of the Post Newspaper Chauncey Bailey.

Update March, 2010:

The links of this post does not exist anymore or leads to other pages and are not related to what is at this post.

I don't know what is happening with Reporters Without Borders and the causes that they are approaching are the same that you can see at the mainstream media.

That is a shame.

Noyse and pure whiteness

"The next morning we went down to the lake and it was blanketed with pure whiteness. A noisy whiteness, but completely white... ," This is from Cheryl- Wishing and Discovering.

You Are Beautiful project

."A simple power message being spread throughout the world." Click at this image. "You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement which is incorporated into the over absorption of mass media and lifestyles that are wrapped in consumer culture. The intention behind this project is to reach beyond ourselves as individuals to make a difference by creating moments of positive self realization. We're just attempting to make the world a little better. Intention is the most important aspect of the You Are Beautiful project in its idea of purity. Nothing is sacred. Everything that has a perceived value becomes commodified. We work extremely hard that this message is received as a simple act of kindness, and nothing more. Advertising elicits a response to buy, where this project elicits a response to do something. The attempt with You Are Beautiful is to create activism instead of consumerism. You Are Beautiful uses the medium of advertising and commercialization to spread a positive message. Projects like these make a difference in the world by catching us in the midst of daily life and creating moments of positive self realization."

Galileo drawings of the moon - 1653

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, this edition from 1653. Galileo first described crater and mountains. Needless to remember that he was almost burned because of his ideas. He did many drawings of the moon and they are amazing.

55 Cancri - Our solar system cousin?

2009 is the year dedicated to astronomy. Five planets were already found in 55 Cancri the system that looks like our solar system. According to Nasa: "This artist's concept illustrates two planetary systems - 55 Cancri and our own. Blue lines show the orbits of planets, including the dwarf planet Pluto in our solar system. The 55 Cancri system is currently the closest known analogue to our solar system, yet there are some fundamental differences." "The similarities begin with the stars themselves, which are about the same mass and age. Both stars also host big families of planets. Our solar system has eight planets, while 55 Cancri has five, making it the record-holder for having the most known exoplanets. In fact, 55 Cancri could have additional planets, possibly even rocky ones that are too small to be seen with current technologies. All of the planets in the two systems have nearly circular orbits. In addition, both planetary systems have giant planets in their outer regions. The giant located far away from 55 Cancri is four times the mass of our Jupiter, and completes one orbit every 14 years at a distance of five times that between Earth and the sun." (emphasis mine)

Anna Politkovskaya

"...I want to be able to live the life of a human being, where every individual is respected, in my lifetime." Anna Politkovskaya