Made with Paper
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This made me very happy this morning.
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Google maps the Amazon. Yes, really.
(Source: youtube.com)
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“Before I Die”
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Fevered Dreams
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had strange, tense dreams when I fall sick.
The earliest one that comes to mind, which I first had around four or five, was about a roller coaster made of pins. There was a giant doughy ball that rolled down the roller coaster, and for some reason, the thought of it would leave me hysterical, crying and asking my mother if “it was going to be okay.” Of course, when asked what I was talking about, the description of the above that I gave her didn’t exactly plead my case.
The most recent variations of this dream – or feeling, really, of tension and frustration – came to me this past week. The first involved teleportation, the second, James Cameron. Yes, really.
My teleportation dream, which was stuck in a loop much like the roller coaster dream, involved me trying to figure out the best and most efficient way to setup a teleportation device at our office so that everyone could teleport in and out at their leisure or as work required.
The James Cameron dream was about me meeting the director as he was putting the finishing touches on his new memory storage system that consisted of a portable CD player-type device and half-inch-thick discs the diameter of a golf ball made of metal and glass that glowed to convey how full they were.
Unfortunately – thankfully? - that’s all I can remember now.
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What if we were to say that human beings are created in the image of God? It will certainly be objected that we have no secure definitions of major terms. How much do we know about God, after all? How are we to understand this word “created”? In what sense can we be said to share or participate in the divine image, since the Abrahamic traditions are generally of one mind in forbidding the thought that the being of God is resolvable to an image of any kind?
But it is on just these grounds that this conception would rescue us from the problems that come with our tendency to create definitions of human nature that are small and closed. It would allow us to acknowledge the fact, manifest in culture and history, that we are both terrible and very wonderful. Since the movement of human history has been toward a knowledge and competence that our ancestors could not have imagined, an open definition like this one would protect us from the error of assuming that we know our limits, for good or for harm. Calvin understood our status as images of God to have reference to our brilliance. He said, truly and as one who must have known from his own experience, that we are brilliant even in our dreams.
— Marilynne Robinson, “A Common Faith”.
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Why John Carter has to be seen to be believed →
“John Carter is the kind of movie no studio bigwig in their right mind ought ever to have greenlit: a space fantasy based on a genre – interplanetary romance – that hasn’t been popular for well over half a century, populated by bizarre creatures from the mind of a writer apparently endowed with the ungrounded imagination of a small child. This is exactly why you should be checking it out. The film is out next weekend and I’ve posted the final trailer above. What a glorious enterprise Disney have wasted all their money on. God bless Hollywood!”
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This person is awesome.
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The Harvard Monolithic Bee (Mobee)
(Source: youtube.com)
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“Inception Park” by Black Sheep Films
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on a roller coaster.
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