Nananana (simpledesktops.com submission)
“I drink seven or eight cans of beer a day and a bottle of whiskey on Thursday evenings.”
- Abu Ahmed Taxi driver. Now makes a living driving a taxi.
Apparently there are other ways to die in Baghdad if you’re bored of the typical Al Qaida angle.
Sticks and Stones 2.0
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
Groucho Marx
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend… if you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
Winston Churchill, in response
“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”
Jack E. Leonard
“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
Robert Redford
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
Thomas Brackett Reed
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
Charles, Count Talleyrand
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
Forrest Tucker
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.”
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
Billy Wilder
Flickr: Cuz It flickn sucks searching flickr.
Compfight is a great new tool that uses Flickr’s API to search the database of photos (including the option to do full-text search on titles and descriptions, and to limit searches to Creative Commons licensed works only) and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails. Unlike Flickr’s own advanced-search page, Compfight remembers your settings from search to search (great for me, as I’m always foraging on Flickr for CC-licensed stock photos), and the large quantities of search-result thumbnails per page makes this the ideal choice for playing photo-editor. Link (Thanks, JJ!)
Now you can not only taste the rainbow.
Skittles. “Taste the rainbow”, they say. But now, thanks to Japanese innovation, for the first time ever, you can hold the rainbow. Yes friends, you can actually hold it. 
what will they think of next. Here’s the link for those who would like to know more and can read fluent japanese.
Let there be light.
Sajjadah 1426 (1426 is the year 2005 in the Islamic calendar)
This modern piece comes from a Turkish designer, Soner Özenç, that combines technology and the Muslim culture.
Sajjadah 1426 is a piece of art and a great example of the electroluminescent phosphor printing technology. It is also quite practical. It assists the person who performs the divine service of prayers, called namaz, not just by creating an amazing atmosphere, but by actually finding the right direction to pray towards.
With the help of an imbedded compass module, the lighted motifs of the rug turn brighter the closer the rug is turned toward the direction of Mecca. This modern sajjadah introduces a brand new experience in the daily performance of namaz. via The Cool Hunter Turkey
