Best of the Web - Saturday December 17, 2012

QUOTATIONS

 Kindness is the language deaf men can see and blind men can hear. Ugandan proverb

Thank God I'm an atheist.  Luis Bunuel

If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.  Homer Simpson

LINGUISTICS IS WHERE IT IS AT

 Garden Path Sentences  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

WHY THERE IS STUMBLE UPON

http://youtu.be/p3JcHhA7M-Y Scottish voice recognition

SMILE FOR A WHILE

Things don’t always go as planned http://pleated-jeans.com/2011/07/20/expectations-vs-reality-17-pics/ 

THERE IS A POEM IN THIS SOMEWHERE:

http://deshoda.com/words/100-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language/

SOMEONE MADE A WHOLE WEBPAGE JUST FOR THIS:

http://eqcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/snail-mail.jpg

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

http://youtu.be/iqCkICXWdWI Alpine coaster. I would definitely do this!

IS THIS WHY THEY HATE US?

http://www.zadan.nl/pics/presidential-prank/

ENGINEERS RULE THE WORLD

http://youtu.be/ZboxMsSz5Aw    3D printing!

SONG

http://youtu.be/-TItmXT8DkM    I didn’t know Frank Zappa covered “Whipping Post”; Frank could really play too…

A POEM FOR YOU

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mary Oliver