Saturday 2 February 2013
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Monday 28 January 2013
We are going to Die
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are
never going to die because they are never going to be born. The
potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in
fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats,
scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible
people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual
people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our
ordinariness, that are here.
Sunday 27 January 2013
It is not Wonder
The great wall of China is within the seven wonders of the world because it's the only Chinese product that lasted more than a month.
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Hilarious underground map. Take your time to see the name of some tube stations. Link: Listo.tumblr
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Many people think that this euphemism for dying comes from the last action of someone about to hang themselves, kicking away the bucket on w...