Untitled, Cairo, 2008 by Simon Vahala 

[via Endless Forms Most... http://ping.fm/2v9Ay

"Math is the new Sanskrit, the new Latin." - Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho http://ping.fm/bWvqF

granted, bravado often requires confidence, @Rands.

i think @Rands is describing bravado, rather more than confidence.

Manufactured Landscapes - Edward Burtynsky http://ping.fm/jxpVi

Manufactured Landscapes by Edward Burtynsky
[via Kateoplis] http://ping.fm/ZHPQP

“Let us tear down half a city in one hundred days” -... http://ping.fm/hCobn

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott twuotes http://ping.fm/XZ33k

"Pissed off gets you moving, but never solves the problem." - @Rands

Hayabusa spacecraft reentering Earth’s atsophere (12 June... http://ping.fm/LrLso

A diagram of history, in one small country over a short span of... http://ping.fm/5HQSi

to empty your mind is to dig a well.

a fog frosted windshield obliterates the carefree racoon. (#foggy philosophy #2)

death is a problem only for the living.

the curative may not be preventative.

spiral stair with a view of the past [via Pure Blog... http://ping.fm/v3OHn

"An empty knapsack does not guard a frontier." - a Bulgarian soldier (1918)

Heart of grass via Loopier http://ping.fm/JlZV3

it looks like Photoshop, but it’s not: a massive sinkhole... http://ping.fm/7oKa0

"everything that Jobs has ever done in his career has suggested that he loves great products more than market share." - SBJ http://ping.fm/Rsw05

agreeing with @AppleOutsider that "people immediately understood iPad as a result" of introducing the iPhone first. http://bit.ly/diEoey

Israel’s siege mentality - The Economist http://ping.fm/Wo7Dv

rumble [via layylayy via centiweed] http://ping.fm/qh4ic

Salvation [via Unsubstantiated Rumors] http://ping.fm/cWl0k

"In order to go from a peak of local success to another higher peak, (you) must first go downhill." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/bb2a7d

"Grammar is just a natural function of children’s brains, and they apply it to whatever they find." - DouglasAdams http://bit.ly/ds6t8Z

"Trade is to culture as sex is to biology. Exchange makes cultural change collective and cumulative." - @MattWRidley http://bit.ly/90d6kU

influential white man with a gun - photo by Loomis Dean (1960,... http://ping.fm/fcaM0

"real privacy issues... are part of a far bigger picture of how the world is changing." - @TimOReilly http://ping.fm/DERdt privacy