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Krishna is the ideal of perfection for all times. Even imagination has not been able to picture a more fully comprehensive, integrated, harmonised, balanced and well-adjusted personality than that of Sri Krishna. The greatest hero, the most illumined scholar, the wisest statesman, the ablest politician, the mightiest warrior, the Lord of Yoga and the most supreme seer of the age that Krishna was, He offered himself as the humblest servant of humanity. He dedicated his whole life for the complete uplift of the world, and he got nothing for himself! He possessed nothing of his own, even the site of his house was borrowed from the Varuna, and yet, he was the Master of the whole universe!
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Pizza features in the history of the internet
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Above, a letter written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1956 predicting, quite accurately, aspects of the future of communications. (via Arthur C. Clarke predicted satellite TV and GPS in the 40s and 50s - Boing Boing
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Jesus “is the one who said, ‘Whatever you did to any of my brothers, even the lowliest, you did to me.’ That means that the priests abusing the vulnerable young were doing that to Jesus, raping Jesus.
Rome Fiddles, We Burn - NYTimes.com
The Roman Catholic Church remains among the most regressive in the world.
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If you had told me that 11 Singaporeans were arrested spying on how our government works, then I’d really have felt good — since Singapore has one of the cleanest, well-run bureaucracies in the world and pays its cabinet ministers $1 million-plus a year.
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I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
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The cliché that sport trains you for life — no, it doesn’t, but in this case, it did.
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Apple treats its users like idiots and then laughs at them.
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Apple’s Absolute Dictatorship:
iOS = You can only use programming languages we approve of, adapters we approve of, web plugins we approve of, cell phone carriers we approve of, applications we approve of and now you can only hold your devices in the way we approve.
