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This is a test to see if I can host files and then link to them automatically with BOX.net.

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Along those same lines, saw this quote in my Quotes of the Day feed:

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E.B. White

Another funny yet thought-provoking question by Scott "Dilbert" Adams on his blog:

Here’s a question for all philosotainers. Are we better off if Pakistan is ruled by a relatively rational and reasonable dictator pretending to be an elected president, who is an enemy of Islamic fundamentalists, as is now the case with President Musharraf, or by a real democracy that could end up run by Islamic extremists with an arsenal of nuclear weapons?

Now, I know very, very little about the actual situation in Pakistan...what I find so challenging about this thought is more the general idea that maybe, just maybe, Western democracy is NOT the solution for the world's problems (as Bush clearly thinks and has said before in multiple speeches). Because what happens when the people of a sovereign nation come together, and freely vote together...for an Islamic extremist government which supports terrorists?

Just was listening to last.fm (Stephi wanted the R&B channel) and the song "Nobody" was playing by somebody called Shawn Desman. The chorus is

I don't wanna hold nobody if I can't be holdin' you
I don't wanna kiss nobody if I can't be kissin' you

Good ol' double negative. I had to laugh imagining him singing the logical equivalent "I wanna kiss somebody if I can't be kissin' you."

Well, this video sure is a little...unsettling. Skip to 0:40 for the quick summary of what it's talking about if you don't feel like watching the whole thing. That's what I did. ;-)

It makes me wonder how things are in Germany...?

This made me laugh:

Phyllis Diller - "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

This is probably the most fascinating psycho-analysis optical illusion I've ever seen. Which direction is the dancer turning in? Clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Stephi and I both saw opposite directions, and it took me about 5-10 minutes of concentrating to be able to see the other direction at all. It's amazing how hard it is to imagine that other people really honestly are seeing the exact opposite of what you're seeing, just depending on which side of their brain dominates. Totally freaky.

So which direction do you see? (found via Moby's blog - yes, that Moby)

Awesome idea. Found on Noel's site.

glumbert - Mirror Mirror On the Wall

"The Onion" (satire newspaper) headline of the month:

Bisexual's Parents Half Understand

The parents of recently admitted bisexual Jeremy Lambert said they completely half-understand their 19-year-old son's lifestyle choice and are 50 percent behind him no matter what happens, sources reported Monday.

One of the most jaw-droppingly amazing YouTube videos I have ever seen:



This guy MASTERED that wall. Insane? Yes. Completely foolish? Yes. But all the same, he MASTERED that wall. The intensity and passion this guy had for what he did just blows me away and is so challenging in light of 1 Corinthians 9:25.

Unsurprisingly (and sadly), the guy that did this climb, Dan Osman, died a few years later during a stunt he was doing called "controlled free-falling" when his rope broke.

I found this video on the Joe's Goals blog.