Three good quotes for Friday

1.Adversity in immunological doses has its uses;more than that crushes.-John Updike(1932-2009),U.S. author and critic
2.Conventional wisdom is to wisdom what junk food is to food.-Anonymous
3.In fact,the more things are forbidden,the more popular they become.-Mark Twain's Notebook,1895.

Two interesting websites for film lovers and list lovers

1 www.shadowlocked.com
2 www.worldsstrangest.com

Great website for finding and ordering rare silent films on DVD or VHS

www.grapevinevideo.com

Interesting website of silent film actress

www.gladyswalton.com

Interesting blogs and websites for book lovers

1 http://imlostinbooks.blogspot.com
2 http://totalbookaholic.blogspot.com
3 http://cozymurders.blogspot.com
4 http://passionatebooklover.blogspot.com
5 http://needmoreshelves.blogspot.com

Great quote on watermelon

Watermelon.It's a good fruit.You eat,you drink,you wash your face.-Famed tenor Enrico Caruso

Great quote by Henry David Thoreau

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.-Henry David Thoreau(1817-62),Author and naturalist.

Quote by Tom Petri

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble-----it's the attempted cover-up.-Tom Petri

Three good quotes

1.The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.-Benjamin Disraeli
2.A divorce is like an amputation;you survive,but there's less of you.-Margaret Atwood(1939-),Poet,novelist and critic
3.Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness,to one of excitement and adventure.-Irving Wallace

A blog I fell into reading

http://getneater.blogspot.com

Three great quotes for Friday

1.Learning is not compulsory----neither is survival.-W.Edwards Deming
2.No winter lasts forever;no spring skips its turn.-Hal Borland
3.There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.-Comedian George Carlin

Dolphins' language

British engineer John Reid wants to translate dolphins' speech into human language.For years ,he has been working on the cymascope,a machine that will help him analyze the basic patterns of dolphin grammar and vocabulary.

Prey turns the tables on the predator

In the waters off the Southwest coast of Africa,the small fish known as the bearded goby has always been preyed upon by jellyfish--until recently.Now this formerly mild-mannered species ,whose diet used to consist of phytoplankton,has overthrown the ancient status quo .It is feasting on the jellyfish that once feasted on it.Scientists aren't sure why.
Maybe you can gain an advantage over someone or something that has always had an advantage over you.Maybe you will become the top dog,in a place where you've been the underdog or maybe you"ll begin drawing energy from a source that has in the past sucked your energy.-Rob Brezsny,Free Will Astrology,MONTREAL MIRROR,December 2-8,2010.

Karma Whore

A "Karma whore'' is someone who performs an abundant number of favours and acts of kindness in the hope of accumulating extra good karma.
Are you a Karma whore?

Physicist Stephen Hawking on extraterrestrial intelligence

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes it would be dangerous to get in touch with extraterrestrial creatures."If aliens visit us," he says,"the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America,which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

Interesting quote on work

I always give 100% at work:13% Monday,22% Tuesday,26% Wednesday,35% Thursday,4% Friday.-Author unknown

Quote by Dee Hock

The problem is never how to get new,innovative thoughts into your mind ,but how to get old ones out.Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture.Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.-Dee Hock

Quote by Lenin

There are decades when nothing happens;and there are weeks when decades happen.-Lenin

Two great quotes

1.Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel,for love is not yours to command.-Alan Watts
2.A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.-Thomas Hardy(1840-1928),English novelist and poet.

Some good websites for movie lovers and others

1 www.findadeath.com
2 www.leonardmaltin.com
3 http://evegolden.com
4 www.chucknorrisatemybaby.com
5 http://celluloidslammer.blogspot.com
6 www.cinemaviewfinder.com
7 http://anchorwomaninperil.blogspot.com

Some interesting blogs and websites

1 www.poorandstupid.com
2 www.damianpenny.com
3 www.rachellucas.com
4 www.danieldrezner.com
5 www.apsaragirl.com
6 www.lifehacker.com
7 http://munanga.blogspot.com

Two interesting websites

1.addictedtovinyl.com
2 www.robinesrock.com

Fact about potatoes

Did you know that potatoes do not tolerate light?This may be the cause of a greenish color.

Two good quotes for Friday

1.We are not always able to form new ideas about our surroundings,or to command original thoughts;they come if they will,and when they will.-Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860),German philosopher
2.Technology---the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.-Max Frisch(1911-91),Swiss architect and novelist

A few interesting blogs on films,especially old and silent films

1 http://talkieking.blogspot.com
2 http://theinvisibleedge.blogspot.com
3 http://classicmontgomery.blogspot.com
4 www.shebloggedbynight.com

Interesting blog

http://optimistswithoutborders.org

Three great quotes

1.Beauty remains,even in misfortune.-Anne Frank,age 14.
2.Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.-Epicurus(not Epictetus)
3.The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims,one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms,like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.-George Orwell,''Poltics and the English language.''

Great quote by Thomas Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.That is why young children,before they are aware of their own self-importance,learn so easily ;and why older persons,especially if vain or important,cannot learn at all.-Thomas Szasz(1920-),U.S. psychiatrist

Website for concerned newspaper lovers

www.newspaperdeathwatch.com

Two good quotes

1.For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.-William Penn
2.Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.-Epictetus

Two great quotes for Sunday

1.In a bargain,no prospect of disadvantage is so dear to the merchant,as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.Be a good listener.Your ears will never get you in trouble.-Frank Tyger

Quote by Phyllis Theroux

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.-Phyllis Theroux

Two good quotes

1.The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.-Kirby Lanson,HATTIE BIG SKY.
2.The beauty of the world has two edges,one of laughter,one of anguish,cutting the heart asunder.-Virginia Woolfe

Quote by Laura Moncur

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.-Laura Moncur

Five great quotes

1.Money is the mother's milk of politics.-Jesse Unruh
2.The more you find out about the world,the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.-Bill Nye
3.Every advantage has its tax.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.-George Herbert
5.Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.-Bern Williams