Mood:  caffeinated

"Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here . . . and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world, yet to follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. . . . It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices. Mine stretched seven thousand miles, and is occasionally dangerous."

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"Call it coincidence, or "consilience," if you prefer"..

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/8545352.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Silk-Road-Colin-Thubron/dp/0701173637

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Click the link above! Shadows on the Silk Road.

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The QE2 is to retire next year and become a big shop in Dubai.

The Guardian asks plainitivley: "The QE2 was the last beautiful ship - why are her successors so ugly?"

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Posted by mach1231 at 4:40 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:51 PM PDT

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Mood:  a-ok

Following Conrad Black Trial. Look @ this  from......

DECEMBER 1st............2003.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:20 AM PDT

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Mood:  d'oh

The gene responsible for causing breast cancer in women comes from the man.

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Astronomers have found a new planet.

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They have also found the first planet  outside of our own solar system to contain water. Its only super heated steam but it has to have a source doesn it? The rest of the planet is gas. It raises the hope that the substance most vital for life is more ubiquitous in the universe than previously thought. - 2005

There has been a recent discovery regarding HIV, human and man related to genomics.

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Battling depression. Gone to clean my gun. Wish me luck. I am in the jewel of the west coast but my spirit is elsewhere. I am here in physical form only. Far away, away from paradise...in a monochromatic world of green that threatens to turn black, and shines luminescently when the moon is full. When wild mimicry sounds alarms and pushes the skin against bone and corpuscle. The road is neither dust nor mud. Neither dirt nor gravel. Its trodden. Its a makeshift breakshift unsteady rollicking path. Born of inccessant needs from men with infantile demands. For more air, for more space, for more trade, for more water and for more oil and for more banana crops. For more war. The tracks are from armoured tanks. Birds swooping into the trees along the way whistle shrilly. Dogs prance silently instep with their command to hurry on, dont question, sit and worship...they prattle and tip toe away. Sheepish and scared, startled by memories engraved in the landscape dep. the scars beckoning for a healing  only a Mother could provide. Up ahead...a man holds his head high. Tired, Thirsty. He has run away from paradise.

Posted by mach1231 at 9:39 AM PDT

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Mood:  bright

  "Canadians should not be surprised to learn that South Africa modelled 
its
system of apartheid after the Canadian Indian reserve system." - ?

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Who said that and in what year? Alex? No, Alex you give the answers I ask the questions.

What? Who said what? What WHO said what? WHAT WHO SAID WHAT?

Posted by mach1231 at 7:45 PM PDT

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Mood:  quizzical

Probably Kurt Eisner of the Black Flag Cafe. He was bragging about working for the New York Subway and has also conspicuously enough worked for the Museum of Modern Art. Of this he has made no effort to conceal, and is practically public information.

 I can just see him using his hacker skills to change the security codes for the museum or something.

Usually only used to break out American spies from Chinese prisons.

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Unlike some certain other things concerning the negative detritus from peoples sordid lives.

The only reason RYP dislikes me is I had discovered he was friends with pro-South African apartheid supporters. Or had friends who were against anti-aparthied activists if you'll have it that way.

Posted by mach1231 at 3:23 PM PDT

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Mood:  sharp

This film has won so many official Selections at Film Festivals, you may end up breezing right passed it at the DVD/VIDEO store aisle.

Uhmmmmmm......

This film has won so many official Selections at Film Festivals, you may end up breezing right passed it at the DVD/VIDEO store aisle.

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 http://palmpictures.imeem.com/video/oUkaT2-I/cronicas/

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Great bonus features. Its worth seeking out as Ecuador's film industry is so small, the Bonus features on the DVD show and tell

a lot behind the scenes of this country.

A Miami reporter travels to a small Ecuadorian village to cover a series of brutal murders and get the biggest story of his career, tracking a possible serial killer dubbed the Monster of Babahoyo.

Posted by mach1231 at 9:25 PM PDT

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Mood:  celebratory

HONG KONG 1941

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=5da7cb9d-39b0-472d-93e4-70c995ffa273

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Gotta do something about these trademark and film pirates before we are all poisoned ..................with lies, and damned lies.

Posted by mach1231 at 9:41 PM PDT

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Mood:  cheeky

Too bad, pity actually he doesnt get the same attention as paris hilton and britney spears and pamela anderson at the Black Flag Cafe.

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CALGARY -- Despite rumours of a dinner date with Prince Harry, Calgary bartender Cherie Cymbalisty was spotted having a night out with friends on the weekend.

Meanwhile, Harry, whose evening with the brunette last week has been splashed across a British tabloid, has reportedly been confined at a southern Alberta army base since his night out in Calgary.

Cymbalisty, who sold her story and photos of her cavorting with Harry at Calgary's Cowboys Niteclub to Britain's News of the World, had been hoping for a reunion with Harry over the weekend, her boss Doug Donald said yesterday.

"I think she's more than a bit disappointed," he said.

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More. More than ...a bit...dissappointed. I know what she must think: what good does confining them do anyway? Heres to hoping Prince Harry can increase his vocabulary soon to include more than just 'wow...."wow"....wow!

http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/06/11/4251315-sun.html

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I suspect after seeing the chic most Flaggers would also be:

buh.bye's.

Posted by mach1231 at 5:58 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:00 PM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

http://comebackalive.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17944&sid=eba9294a57ca58c6eb70178f5419b37e

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nowonmai,

at that rate by the time Prince Harry is ready to deploy he just might come back with his fiery red headed top still attached, jah?

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CB053.htm

but,

2,155 civilians and Iraqi security forces have been killed. In one month. Last month.

Maybe the Iraqis would like to have another vote, another election, demand a recount...count the hands on the ground versus hands in the air.

Iraq Deja Vu :  A war on rewind, in a bleaker Baghdad

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Posted by mach1231 at 5:07 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:18 PM PDT

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Mood:  bright

Polpot took control of Cambodia in 1975 and began to systematically remove all forms of personal, religious and artistic expression from society. Many eminent singers and dancers were put to death.

Dances of Cambodia

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Sorry to dissappoint. Tired of Lindsay Lohan and Britney so much..something tells me the net is a place to lose yourself over to popular demand_s.

Posted by mach1231 at 7:51 PM PDT

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