garry’s subposterous

As Santigold says, "Me, I'm a creator."

Yellowish green, chartreuse, is naturally placed right in the middle of the frequencies of visible light. Human eyes have receptors for green, blue and red colors. Being placed in the middle, chartreuse actuates the most of these receptors to fire, making it distinct and easier to spot. For the same reason, in some metropolises, firetrucks have been modified from red to a yellowish green color to make them more visible and obvious to the eye.

And here I always thought red was the most prominent color.

People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day," Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure allowing them to get together and work things out for themselves. Any additional features are almost certainly superfluous and could even be damaging.

You see this goblet?" asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master.

"For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’

When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.

I'm not anyone's employee. I'm not subject to the Two-Hour Rule. I work on this website at least twelve hours a day.

Like everyone else who is on their own, we work like crazy. We get no vacations or sick days. We don't know what a "weekend" is.

If we can't work a day, it costs us. The life and mind set of people who work on their own is 180 degrees opposite from anyone who has a job.

When I had a job, a day of vacation was like finding a pot of gold. Today, a day off costs me a day's pay. Always.

Great essay by Ken Rockwell: The Two Hour Rule in American Business. He's usually telling people what kind of camera stuff they should buy, but here he deviates and passes on a little secret that you may have already realized.

As you move through the world your actions cause or reduce suffering, and many times you can’t control which result you’ll get. If you live a life where you cause everyone around you nothing but suffering, you’ll eventually get it back on you.

Ironically, if you live a life where you do nothing but reduce everyone’s suffering, you’ll also live a fairly horrible life full of your own misery. The important thing is that Buddhism balances between reducing your own suffering and that of other people, while still understanding that none of this is really permanent or that important so you avoid attachment (but not too much).

I haven't been to a town hall, but from the accounts I've heard on NPR and elsewhere, there are some serious hooligan tactics being engaged by those either a) brainwashed by right-wing talk radio, or b) corporate shills paid for and organized by the health insurance cabals.

Where's the decorum? Lets talk about this like human beings, and talk about the issues, instead of calling Obama "Hitler." That's just absurd.

Good to know what packs the biggest punch!

During World War II the English sent daily bombing raids into Germany. Many planes never returned; those that did were often riddled with bullet holes from anti-air machine guns and German fighters.

Wanting to improve the odds of getting a crew home alive, English engineers studied the locations of the bullet holes. Where the planes were hit most, they reasoned, is where they should attach heavy armor plating. Sure enough, a pattern emerged: Bullets clustered on the wings, tail, and rear gunner's station. Few bullets were found in the main cockpit or fuel tanks.

The logical conclusion is that they should add armor plating to the spots that get hit most often by bullets. But that's wrong.

Planes with bullets in the cockpit or fuel tanks didn't make it home; the bullet holes in returning planes were "found" in places that were by definition relatively benign. The real data is in the planes that were shot down, not the ones that survived.