Melos

A banal but cute poem, like The New Yorker.

This is absolutely captivating. Why is it that most animations I come across now are depressing and violent, even ones made for children? Not to mention that when I was a kid, the programmes I watched were not merely for entertainment, they usually had some small educational aspect. Now it seems everything is just made for the purpose of keeping the kids silent with as much stimulation as possible.

Wow, a whole website dedicated to one of the best songs ever. It's no coincidence that when I met Pet Shop Boys I chose to ask Neil's autograph under the Being Boring promo picture in the Behaviour sheet music.

Such nice street lamps, it makes me wonder why most things in my city have to look so simple and functional (perhaps because aesthetics change over time, and when people build common facilities they want them to be simple enough so that they won't seem horribly ugly 20 years from now).

Reading about the deeds of these offenders and their last words makes me sad. It's a good reminder of how everyone deserves compassion, no matter what they've done. No state should be granted the power to execute its own citizens. It seems like the easy way out because once they're locked in and on death row people can just forget them. Except for the families of both the victims and the criminals. It's not right as a vengeance, for people should be able to rise above that. It's not right as an example, for when people kill each other they rarely consider the possibility of being convicted and executed. Murderers deserve compassion just like any of us.

Countries should be judged by not only how it treats the least fortunate but also by how murderers and terrorists are treated (and in most cases if the first one is handled properly, there shouldn't be so much trouble about the second one)

Sure enough the articles on the site are interesting and deal with a good variety of topics. However, lately I've become a little annoyed by how Republican they often are, or at least the viewpoints chosen always seem to be compatible with mainstream American thought. Of course that's not a surprise considering the list of online magazines that are the sources for the articles. Still, one should remember that the editors have their opinions too, and in this case they favour very clearly the kind of universalization of Western values that has again been in vogue since the waves of postmodernism began to recede, or after the increasingly homogenizing tendencies of cultural globalization combined with the paranoia typical to this decade. Yet, despite their libertarian approach, the editors are still quite open to different ideas.

Aww

These extinct animals seem like miracles now. And every year more miracles like these disappear for good.