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Related: blogs • For Living WebsitesHow Jorn Barger Invented Blogging Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From Blogs are everywhere. Everybody, every business, everywhere, has a blog these days, some run on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress, but some are popular custom blogs like Mashable and Huffington Post. There are blogs on family, health, writing, music, news, a million other things, and, yes, blogs on blogging. But it had to start somewhere, right? Sure, people have been writing things down on the internet since day one, but who decided to start writing things down in a web log format? ontheroofs In the Chungking Mansions you can find everything: tiny guest houses with just a few rooms for rent, curry cafes, a market on the ground floor, a variety of shops, currency exchange offices, touristic offices, where you can get a Chinese visa. Next to the main entrance, you can always find the Indians and the Pakistanis, offering you to buy some hash, weed or even cocaine. During one of our trips, I decided to check what they will sell, to bate my curiosity.
How to Start a Blog - The Free Beginner's Guide to Blogging Chapter 1 Welcome to The Blogger World Summary: This section provides background information to help you understand blogging basics, the how to's, and where to find sources of valuable reference material. We also describe a number of different blog types, how to choose your niche, and list some of the many reasons people like to blog.
051. Simulation Theory and the Nature of Reality with Physicist and Author, Tom Campbell. - “When the original founding fathers of quantum mechanics were doing these experiments they were really excited… making statements like- ‘if quantum mechanics doesn’t blow your mind, that’s because you don’t understand quantum mechanics.’ They realized this was a really big deal philosophically, (and) scientifically… Then they tried to come up with a good explanation. They couldn’t find one… Now they just blow it off as ‘nobody will ever know… it’s just weird science.’ This My Big Toe theory though, explains it.” -Tom Campbell
Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russel Ash and Brian Lake is said to “delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd.” That, in a nutshell, is me. I love reading about and learning useless information. Actually, that’s one of the reasons why I run this website — because the web is full of useless information and I just can’t get enough of it. Anyway, the book comes out on October 30, 2007, but you can pre-order it at Amazon.com for just over $10. I’d love to go through the pages of this book and see just what kind of strange things are listed and written about.
Stoa del Sol The Stoa of the ancient Greco-Roman world was a teaching forum for the philosophical precepts of Stoicism. First expounded upon by Zeno of Citium (c. 366-264 b.c.e.), Stoicism was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. Its scope included a cosmology, logic, and ethics. And its impact has reached down through the centuries--early Greek Stoicism, later Roman Stoicism, Stoic influence in Christian thought, Stoic thought found in the humanism of the Renaissance, and beyond this in the pantheistic philosophy of Spinoza. The Stoa del Sol is a contemporary forum for essays that reflect some of the historical principles of Stoicism in relation to a New Cosmology and New Spiritual Paradigm prompted by modern science and systems theories.
T'HY'LA: I went to the Harry Potter studio tour! Well I finally went on friday, and it was uh-may-zing. There are honestly no words for it. I took 300 and something photos but I don't want to give it away to anyone who might be going so here are a few that I put on instagram. I think I might still have a few Helena Bonham Carter skin cells on my hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were amazing painting things, this was one of my favourites because Harry looks like an old woman The Leaky Cauldron corridor, it's actually only about 7 feet long but at weird angles to make it look about 50 feet instead
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College (1966) and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School (1972). Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. Ananda Maitreya, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk of recent times. He was appointed editor of the Buddhist Publication Society (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988.
Lost in Budapest, Found in a Ruin Bar It’s surprising, how many movies were shot in Budapest, or in Hungary. This popularity among filmmakers may be because of the cheap fees and the fact, that this city has a very mixed landscape and architecture, which makes it suitable to ’play the role’ of almost any other European cities. For example, in the 2005 movie München by Steven Spielberg Budapest was transfigured to Rome, Paris, London, and München, but our capital also portrayed Moscow (Die Hard 5), Baltimore, Belgrade (The Raven), and Berlin (Spy Game, The Debt) in other films, and even Argentina in Evita (1996). Brad Pitt and Robert Redford in Spy Game, with the Synagogue in the background
Flaneur Magazine »Rome is so boring, Rome is so dry.« Architectural performance group LAC, ATI and Stalker believe the answer to Rome’s future is the transformation of the ancient ruin Largo Argentina (located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II) into a lake. Let the Romans swim! Let Romans touch their history instead of viewing it from afar! After several brainstorming sessions (scuba diving gear, crabs and safety floats being mentioned) Flaneur and the performers/architects met by the ruin armed with flyers, posters, empty vessels for collecting water and a model of the ruin-turned-lake including live gold fish.