Free-Floating

A modicum of fascinations.

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Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.

Subcomandante Marcos

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Serendipity

Today, I discovered that the cyclical nature and closed structure of Benzene rings was discovered by a German scientist, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, while he was having a reverie about Ouroborus, an ancient symbol of a snake swallowing its own tail (the symbol itself has several representations, one of them being cyclical rebirth like a Phoenix).

Other examples of discovery by serendipity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity#Examples_in_science_and_technology

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The universe's ways are comforting.

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There was a book that had three initials that I really wanted to read, so I was trying to search it up on Wikipedia. I thought it might be "EGD," but uh... apparently not. I got this.

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"I don't want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen!"

Jet Li, now a Singaporean.

Jet Li - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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An image of a post envelope with address written in krakozyabry (кракозя́бры) AKA Mojibake. The envelope contained a Harry Potter book. This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1) The original message was in KOI8-R.

The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully. Some of the correct characters (red) were written above the wrong ones (black).

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via upload.wikimedia.org

Want to read this.

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Stranger: 春哥纯爷们

You: 我来自春哥

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"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pope Paul IV confirmed King Kong is Santa Claus.

I'm reassured.

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Visit Original Link

A track from the SZS OST.

I don't know what it sounds like.

Let's find out!

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Spontaneous Literature

- Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 64. Find the 7th sentence and type it. A student reads a test question that asks for a distance, gives a time interval of 3.2 s and a constant acceleration of magnitude 5.4 m/s2.

- Go your iTunes or WMP or whatever music player you use. Set it to random/shuffle. Press next track 5 times. Then find the lyrics to that song. Find the 5th line of that song’s lyrics and type it. Signs of a savoir

- Grab a newspaper or a magazine. Go to page 4. Find the 4th sentence and type it. I say good for the private security forces. - Time Magazine

- Go to Wikipedia. Go to Random Article. Find the 6th line and type it. A smaller car, the 9 hp of 1913 with a 1357 cc side valve four cylinder, was the first to sell in significant numbers and was re-introduced after World War 1 as the 11 hp having grown to 1600 cc. (Copied and pasted, actually. I got a multitude of stubs.)

- Go to Livejournal. Go to Random Journal. Find their 2nd newest journal and type the 1st line. (If this person’s journal is private, empty or in a different language try another Random Journal) Right before Christmas we got a boat load of snow and were stuck at home for a couple weeks.