Saturday, October 8, 2011

sobro sunset

self-explanatory signage

Quakertown, Pennsylvania

Friday, October 7, 2011

tgif

sittinonthesofamakinoutwithyourhoneyonafridaynightmusic


1972

geeze, what happened down there





138th and Third

Thursday, October 6, 2011

all those new days


Every new day we get out of bed, 
launch our computers, check our mail, listen to iPods, text and make calls on our iPhones, use iPads for travel, work and play. It’s easy to miss how insanely great this all is, how Apple has led the way and how our lives are irreversibly changed for one man thinking differently. Yesterday, all those new days ended for Steve Jobs.

If you love someone, tell them. 
And if you like an Apple device, thank Steve. 

Thanks, Steve.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Lately it occurs to me

Sometimes the lights all shinin’ on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me...

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

1970

The song “Truckin’” was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

here’s a scary thought

zedge.net
Back in 2005, the entire Arab world had a smaller research footprint than did Harvard University.
Harvard.edu
Western science is balanced with Biblical and Toranic interpretation and Christianity and Judaism tend to be more open to these interpretations.
The Muslim view is that the Qur’an began with a divine revelation to Muhammad in 610. With an unquestioning view of Quranic perfection, the result is that Islam generally does not seek scientific understanding beyond the 7th century, an era of ignorance and superstition we now regard as the “Dark Ages”. 
commonsenseatheism.com
In fact, with 20% of all global population, Islam produces only about 1% of all scientific writing. Contrast this with Judaism,  two-tenths of 1 percent of the world's population winning almost 25% of all Nobel prizes for physics.

As recently as the early 20th century the Ulama, an educated class of Muslim scholars, forbade the study of foreign language and the dissection of human bodies in Iranian medical schools.
zawaj.com
The full pressure of the Egyptian government was required in 1961 to compel the Islamic University in Cairo to stop teaching the Ptolemaic astronomical system in which the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
businessinsider.com
Scientific skepticism continues to resist polio inoculation in Muslim Nigeria as “an imaginary thing created in the west.”
fairladymedia.com
The world is growing smaller.

How do we become one in peace when a full one-fifth of us and growing is dedicated to religious ignorance?
newsrealblog.com
Scary.