Specter's Perspective

rollingstone: Doors co-founder and keyboardist Ray Manzarek...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:07:42 -0400

Doors co-founder and keyboardist Ray Manzarek died today in Rosenheim, Germany after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 10:21:36 -0400

Found: paranoid screed

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:39:19 -0400

Found: paranoid screed

" “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:52:39 -0400

“” “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.” “”

- Douglas Adams, English writer and dramatist (1952-2001), in a Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)

Ever feel like no one gets you?

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:01:00 -0400

Ever feel like no one gets you?

Lesson 23: the lost lesson

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:39:56 -0400

Lesson 23: the lost lesson

rollingstone: Roger Ebert, the influential film critic, has...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:54:36 -0400

rollingstone:

Roger Ebert, the influential film critic, has passed away.

Read Peter Travers’ tribute to the greatest of film critics.

"According to evidence recently accepted by the Supreme Court, a black man who kills a white is three..."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:41:41 -0400

“According to evidence recently accepted by the Supreme Court, a black man who kills a white is three times more likely to suffer the penalty of death than a white man who kills a white. A black man who kills a white is eleven times more likely to be slain by the state than a white man who kills a black. In my idealistic youth, this was known as racial discrimination or even racism. Now, says the majority on the Supreme Court, it is “a discrepancy that appears to correlate with race.” However, as the justices went on to say, such “apparent disparities in sentencing are an inevitable part of our criminal justice system.” If that last statement is true, it is rather a condemnation.”

- Christopher Hitchens, The Nation, August 29, 1987 (via prettayprettaygood)

Happiest moment: At the end of the day I drink a small pot of tea in the dark.

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:00:50 -0400

Happiest moment: At the end of the day I drink a small pot of tea in the dark.

You know you’re headed down the wrong path when you think, “that was a good...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:59:30 -0400

You know you’re headed down the wrong path when you think, “that was a good email.”

annjol: timorleste: You’re doing design right. my future...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:07:42 -0500

annjol:

timorleste:

You’re doing design right.

my future dining room table

polychroniadis: Ross Mantle Photograpy.

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:28:24 -0500

polychroniadis:

Ross Mantle Photograpy.

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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:24:27 -0500

King Richard the third Fought and died gloriously For a parking lot

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:36:21 -0500

King Richard the third
Fought and died gloriously
For a parking lot

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:39:03 -0500

arpeggia: Violinist Jascha Heifetz playing in Mili’s darkened...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:28:44 -0500

arpeggia:

Violinist Jascha Heifetz playing in Mili’s darkened studio as light attached to his bow traces the bow movement.

Photo by Gjon Mili, 1952 - LIFE archive

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:21:55 -0500

infinity-imagined: City lights photographed from the...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:47:58 -0500

infinity-imagined:

City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

mothernaturenetwork: NASA finds 461 alien planet candidates,...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:37:41 -0500

mothernaturenetwork:

NASA finds 461 alien planet candidates, some possibly habitable

The new finds represent the latest update to the catalog of the $600 million Kepler mission, which launched in March 2009.

How soon do I leave?

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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:47:05 -0500