user-cropped region of arbitrary Google Streetview image, 2011, imahd.ca
Analysis: Egypt – The blame game
Jerusalem Post:
“The Supreme Military Council wants to cover its failure to keep the peace in Sinai by throwing the blame on Israel.”
via Analysis: Egypt – The blame game – JPost – Middle East.
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Astute comments by former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Zvi Mazel, on the political aftermath of this week’s treacherous attacks launched from Sinai toward Eilat and on the general state of lawlessness in the desert peninsula.
Physics. Alternative definitions…
Wikipedia:
Physics is the study of matter, motion and energy.
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alt.S.defs:
Physics is the study of natural abiotic dynamics.
Physics is a plot to expose every universal law, true constant, and eternal ratio.
Physics is an ongoing effort to write a technical user’s manual for the universe.
Physics is the contextual study of matter and energy moving in time and space.
Physics is the rationality of actuality.
Physics is the study of inanimate behaviours.
Physics is a science in search of its own meaning.
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unrelated rant:
I think it’s unfair that Space gets three dimensions, while Time gets but one.
What is Space, anyway? A whole lot of nothing! And it’s like that in every direction, as far as the eye can see — or the mind imagine. Even if you fill it up with stuff, without time, nothing will ever happen there. And yet, man, in his ‘wisdom’, has seen fit to confer upon this vast and virtual wasteland the lavish gift of three full axes!
To its credit, though, Time takes no offense, seemingly secure in the knowledge that its unitary comportment is perfectly the match of its partner’s triplicity.
How Many Wives?
Dialogue excerpt between US tank corpsman ‘Waco’ Hoyt (Bruce Bennett) and Sudanese Sgt. Maj. Tambul (Rex Ingram) in Columbia Pictures’ classic 1943 war flick, Sahara, featuring Humphrey Bogart as American tank commander Sgt. Joe Gunn. Directed by Zoltan Korda…
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Waco: The boys up top tell me you Mohammedans have as many as 300 wives.
Tambul: No. The Prophet tells us that four wives is sufficient for a true believer.
Waco: Why four?
Tambul: The Prophet says that one wife makes a miserable life because she always gets bored. And two wives make a mess of your life also. They always quarrel and you never know which one is right. And three wives are bad, too. The two always take sides against the third. But four wives makes real happiness.
Waco: How?
Tambul: Two and two are company for each other. And the man, he has his rest.
Waco: That sounds all right. You’ve got four?
Tambul: No, I have only one.
Waco: What’s holding you back?
Tambul: If you had this law in your Texas, would you have four wives?
Waco: No. My wife wouldn’t like that.
Tambul: It is the same with me. My wife, she would not like it.
Waco: You sure learn things in the army.
Tambul: Yes, we both have much to learn from each other.
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Downtown Pyongyang
North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang
It’s like a semi-abstract still life… minus the life part.
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Image by David Guttenfelder from The Independent:
Lost world: Scenes from North Korea’s closed society
Story to go with the pictures, by David McNeill…
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