moon phases

Started this before change to "New Blogger", as backup in case of trouble with digiphoto blog "In a Small Dark Room", or rants & links blog "Hello Cruel World" . Useful - at one stage Dark Room was there, but like the astrophysical Dark Matter, we could't see it ... better now, but kept Just In Case.

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There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought.
Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
[me, on a bad day]

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Forbes' "Fifteen People Who Have Changed the World"  

Forbes Magazine has, of course, their own ideal of what is "better" for the world. I have some strong disagreements. But it's good to get something to consider.

Fifteen People Who Have Changed the World - Lifestyle Channels (Yahoo): "Fifteen People Who Have Changed the World"

None of us can see what directions the world will take in the future, and events that seem monumental today might turn out to be mere pebbles on the road of history. But there are some achievements so notable, so ground-shaking, that even within the short space of a few decades we can feel their impact. We've chosen a few examples of this revolutionary spirit: 15 people who changed the world since 1950.

Of course, not everyone changes the world for the better. Clearly, we could do with fewer Osama bin Ladens and more Mikhail Gorbachevs, who, when given great power, directed it toward goals that benefited mankind. Our list is made up exclusively of the latter.

Slideshow (www.forbes.com/2007/05/23/people-changed-world-tech-07rev_cz_tb_0524changers_slide_2.html)

Tim Berners-Lee - World Wide Web

Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin - DNA Structure

Milton Friedman - Free Marketeer Economist

Mikhail Gorbachev - Ending Communism in USSR

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce - Microchip

Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield - MRI

George Lucas - Changed economics of movie industry

Malcolm McLean - Shipping container

Gregory Pincus, M.C. Chang, and John Rock - Contraceptive pill

[permalink] posted by Mez at 11:56 am