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Destruction, Death, Survival, Love

Posted on May 24th, 2008 in Music Monday, Wordless Wednesday | 10 Comments »

Yes, I know it’s physically impossible to have Wordless Wednesday and Music Monday categories on the same day (which ironically enough is NEITHER of those days…), my categories need fixing.

The beginning of this week were official days of mourning in China. Imagine the nation standing still with only foghorns, car horns, and sirens in the background for three minutes. That’s what happened at 2:28 PM Monday. I’m just touched by the humanity of it all - newspapers and websites donning a coat of grey and black in mourning, journalists breaking down in tears in the middle of live reports, the leaders going to the front line, children’s bodies found with pens in hand as they had no time to react, clocks stuck at 2:28, a man saying “thank you everyone” when he was lifted out of the rubbles after three days, only to pass away minutes after.

In Beijing, after the three minutes of silence, people erupted into cheers that haven’t been heard in Tiananmen Square in… ever (video)? I find that Chinese people don’t usually go out and cheer for something they love, especially their country, so this is rare and historic indeed!

I guess the pictures can speak for themselves.

Beichuan Secondary School, taken a day before the earthquake at a seniors event. Two thirds of the people in that school would not be alive the next day.

Newspaper covers collected in a collage, the giant words mean “Mourning” (source)

Migration - a couple carrying everything they owned to move to a new place.

Rest in peace.

Oh god.

Candles surrounding the words Wenchuan, the county at the epicenter of the Earthquake in Sichuan.

Every bit counts. Donate to the Red Cross today.

Awww <3

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Why Use Firefox?

Posted on April 11th, 2008 in Wordless Wednesday | 34 Comments »

Because it’s written in the stars!

Man, Mozilla is really missing out not hiring me as their catchy-business-slogan-maker. Btw, aren’t you glad this isn’t one of those “top reasons for blah blah blah” self-help/productivity/completely-devoid-of-creativity entries mentioned in Sarai’s enlightening article?

Firefox in Space

The one on the left is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis (source). It’s just rotated and the tail of the fox is slightly doctored.

IE FAILS. GO FF (for some reason when I reread this I saw “IE FAILS, Go F*** OFF haha). TGIF & Happy Weekends! My category choice also fails. Oh well.

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Happy V-Day!

Posted on February 13th, 2008 in QOTW, Wordless Wednesday | 11 Comments »

Remember Valentine’s Day in highschool? Yep, we’re all too busy wasting all of our money sending paper roses and four-buck-a-piece chocolate and grams to be delivered to our friends/s.o.’s classes. Ahhh… the good life.

QOTW: How do you plan on celebrating/boycotting Valentine’s Day? Thoughts on the day itself?

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