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Just a short Buddhist outlook on life.   1. Take into account that great love and great achievements       involve great risk.   2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.   3. Follow the three R's:       Respect for self       Respect for others and       Responsibility for all your actions.   4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a       wonderful stroke of luck.   5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.   6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.   7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate       steps to correct it.   8. Spend some time alone every day.   9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think       back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. 12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your      life. 13. In

I imagine you in that darkened closet An unremarked node of imbricated data A confluence of modulated electrons Constrained to color-coded worms Of deep red copper fleshed in plastic You were picking the lock On a box filled with light But my mind turns from that beginning To the moments before the end And my thoughts have the texture of The surface of The wood of The wheel on Which they would break you Rough, splintered, unfinished Poorly formed But sufficient And in those moments Were you hooting with woe? Indrawing great sobs Like a child with whooping cough? Or were you moving surely through That world of knife edged shadows Making a choice that seemed The most adult you had ever made? Perhaps you will be reborn In the electric clash Of the mind of a child Understanding something new Or the moment of surprise When two opposing views Are shown to be equivalent

Running on the Rocks Searching the wide oceans with hooks and spears We shake the tall trees till the leaves drop round our ears Swimming the cold water where the sun will never shine Making preparations for the whip-crack time Hauling the Kraken up with blocks and chains - We're sailing into the eyes of hurricanes You know that no-one here gets out alive Only one thing makes it when the Devil drives: WE'RE GONNA STEEL UP THE FLESH TO THE FIRE YOU GONNA FIND OUT WHAT THE RULES ARE THEN WELL SISTER, SISTER, WON'T YOU PRAY FOR ME - WE'RE GOING RUNNING ON THE ROCKS AGAIN... Flaming amazement - madder than the gale Wreathed in shadows; crackling in the sails This is our mission now as then - We can do no other here we stand: Amen The winds are crying - remember me Through the holy silence of the desert and the sea The next Armada waiting for the tide Wind and rain are nothing to the storm inside WE'RE GONNA STEEL UP THE FLESH TO THE FIRE YOU GONNA

Owen Schuh draws his inspiration from mathematics and complex organic systems. In particular, he is fascinated by simple sets of well-defined rules that generate unexpectedly intricate and nuanced structures. His work is painstakingly created by hand, using at most the aid of a pocket calculator.

A Sun of the Nineteenth Century’; cartoon from Puck magazine showing Charles Darwin as a shining sun, chasing the clouds of religion and superstition from the sky, 1882

The loosely organized hackers of Anonymous don't just launch distributed denial-of-service attacks for the lulz. They do it to send a message, which is why they've petitioned the Obama administration to recognize DDoS as a legal form of protest. The petition, which was filed on the White House's We the People website, argues that DDoS "is not a form of hacking in any way" and that it's really not much different than repeatedly hitting the refresh button in your web browser, albeit on a much larger scale: It is, in that way, no different than any "occupy" protest. Instead of a group of people standing outside a building to occupy the area, they are having their computer occupy a website to slow (or deny) service of that particular website for a short time. The Register