QUICKY: 10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers

If you read anything today, read this:

10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

...Hope you have cigarettes, this stuff is stressfully true.

Comment on Comments

Today I found myself in an interesting Theological discussion in the comments section of the popular blog Boing Boing. I try to not get into these talks too much. There was one comment made by a gentleman going by the alias "Uncle Eccoli" that I felt was truly quote-worthy:

Faith is all about humility, though not in a particularly religious sense. Faith is simply the recognition of Man's limitations - an acknowledgement of our incomplete understanding of the natural world. Religion is an avatar of faith and provides a construct for its expression principally (though not exclusively) for the simple and narrow.
The rise of science has created a growing intellectual hubris in modern humanity that lends itself to the erroneous notion that we've discovered and understand more than we have yet to. There is far too little wonder in science today and far too much arrogance. There will always be things we don't know. Always. Science has become too ready to dictate to the world what is and is not real, what is and is not possible.

Beautifully put, Unk!

The Original Comment on Boing Boing

QUICKY: Hybrids are Evil

This little article proposes that hybrids don't help reduce our reliance on oil, but actually increases it by delaying the accepting and implementing of other completely oil-less technologies such as hydrogen.

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Michael's Chalk

I used to do a lot of chalk drawings in empty parking lots growing up. I always had this urge to draw something huge, and chalk was a much less destructive forum than spray paint graffiti. I still had my fair share of run-ins with the cops while doing this. Although I was banned from several shopping plazas and asked many times if I was on drugs (which I wasn't), I was never charged with anything since the chalk would be washed away the first time it was hit with a Floridian downpour or a shopkeeper's hose. These adventures in art were always conducted late at night when the parking lots were their emptiest - Maximizing my canvas area.

So, it's no surprise that I was particularly intrigued (and had one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments) when I found Michael Neff's chalk outlines of the shadows thrown by the city's street lights. Being nocturnal by nature myself, I'm all too familiar with the way the shadows thrown by the lamp posts rearrange the city streets. It's nice to see Michael altruistically enlighten the day-comers of this oft-overlooked spectacle.

Read: michaelneff.com - Chalk