Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

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Live Science has a very stimulating look at the top 10 ways to destroy Earth. This is essential reading of course because you need to know this, you need to know the underlying principles, materials and methodology.

Everyone dreams of destroying the Earth or making someone disappear. Now you can do it.

10. Total existance failure
9. Gobbled up by strangelets
8. Sucked into a microscopic black hole
7. Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction
6. Destroyed by vacuum energy
5. Sucked into a giant black hole
4. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed
3. Pulverized with a blunt instrument
2. Eaten by von Neumann machines
1. Hurled into the Sun

Peace.

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

Letting Go

Greetings,

Last April was our final complete visit and father is going. A heavy late spring snow covers spring trees as buds struggle toward the light of becoming everything. He is resting comfortably.

Beautiful white colors — all is light.

I burn incense, feed sparrows. They sing — early green spring blossoms gesture their newness.

calm, no attachment, no desire
breathing in — out
diamond mind clarity
mindful watching

I feed father spoonfuls of white clear ice.
His bones lie exposed under pale skin.
His blue eyes are radiant and clear.

I open the curtain so he can see the snow and blue sky with flying clouds.
He asks what day it is.
I say Saturday.

Shadowed icicles melt slowly in long quiet falls.
Across the valley a father and young son shovel snow off a wall of stones, laughing.
My father asks for more ice.

Peace.

Design For The Other 90%

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MORE THAN ONE BILLION PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER.

EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ARE ILLITERATE. OF THAT NUMBER, TWO-THIRDS ARE WOMEN.

ALMOST HALF THE WORLD'S POPULATION, OR 2.8 BILLION PEOPLE, LIVE ON LESS THAN $2 A DAY. ONE IN SIX PEOPLE AROUND WORLD, OR ABOUT 1.1 BILLION, BARELY EXIST ON LESS THAN $1 A DAY.

SEVENTY PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD HAVE NO ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY IN THEIR HOMES, HEALTH CLINICS, OR SCHOOLS.

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”
—Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

A revolution in design is at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through September 23, 2007.

Design focus is on Shelter, Health, Water, Education, Energy and Transport.

Peace.

Design For The Other 90%

Bag It Dad

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In a startling revelation today, European military commanders notified every single media corporation on the planet that they would begin giving out free discount coupons for a new “Peaceful Transition” store currently under construction in Baghdad.

“The 20 million acre complex, tentatively named The Mother of All Shopping Experiences is north by northwest of the capital,” said Abdula Assist, planning manager.

Our sources indicate that retail and discount experts from major world companies, under the cover of darkness, have arrived with contracts, blueprints and cheap life insurance policies to establish the business. It will be the first of many joint ventures.

“We have the full cooperation of major band aid agencies who believe that this shopping experience will dramatically affect and change the behavior and attitudes of the public,” said Buymore Today, a spokesperson.

Buymore added that, as an initial promotion, anti-depressant medication cost will be slashed by 99%.

In the interest of public safety, all potential shoppers will be required to line up for hours with bi-lingual dictionaries and Hope. Hope, a distant relative of Alexander The Great, expressed satisfaction with the planned development.

“I’ve heard Aisle 13 is going to be like an amusement park,” she said through an interpreter. “I can’t wait to see all the goodies produced in sweat shops that nobody wants or can afford.”

Peace.

Plays alone

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MK 39 is up for your listening awareness. It's nothing more than a small story about a boy living in a village where the kids ignore him. He is an outsider, not one of them.

Peace.