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Friday Haiku Day

Vanessa King — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:03:42 +0000

Friday Haiku day
What kinds can you come up with?
Because they are great.

Want an idea?
I found this great craigslist thread
Some of them are COOL

Here are my contributions for the day…

David Suzuki
Has a wicked foundation
We can save the World

ALSO

I really love bjork
She’s coming to Toronto
I am extatic!!

Man Grows Furniture, Art From Living Trees

Benny Powers — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:07:15 +0000

It’s called arborsculpture, and Richard Reames has been doing it for years. He plants trees in patterns, and uses bending and grafting techniques to form the saplings into benches, staircases, sculptures, and an assortment of other amazing living things.

I believe that if enough people put their minds to using living trees, we can learn to grow houses. I believe that if we put our minds to it, like going to the moon, there’s no reason we couldn’t all be living in houses where the walls and ceilings are composed of living tree material and there are leaves coming out of the roof. We could accomplish this in one generation. We’d build doorways and windows that the trees would grow around, and also plumbing and electrical conduits. The trees would just swallow all the pipes. We’re going to call this “arbortecture.”

You’ve just got to see the pictures in this article!

The Rebbe on Intolerance

Benny Powers — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:07:42 +0000

Intolerance lies at the core of evil.
Not the intolerance that results
from any threat or danger.
But intolerance of another being who dares to exist.
Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us,
because every human being secretly desires
the entire universe to himself.
Our only way out is to learn
compassion without cause. To care for each other
simple because that ‘other’ exists.

- Rabbi Menachem Mendle, the Lubavitcher Rebbe

In honour of his memorial (yahrzeit)

Too True

Cam Proctor — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:59:09 +0000

Good science cannot long persist in an atmosphere of intimidation. Political figures ought to be reviewing their public statements to make sure they are consistent with the best available science; scientists should not be reviewing their statements to make sure they are consistent with the current political orthodoxy. – House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)

The Great Quote-be

Adam Clare — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:53:42 +0000

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Good Quote

Vanessa King — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:36:46 +0000

“If you can’t laugh at yourself you’re missing the biggest joke of your life.”

Anonymous

A Good Quote

Vanessa King — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:02:50 +0000

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~