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The Boy and The Girl fall in love. The Girl leaves the boy. The Boy is angry, and dreams of the Tirl suffering to ease his pain. An archetypal love story, which found its way into the repertoire of many singer/song-writers. Three of my favorites' approach to the story shows a lot about their character. First, the Boss. Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album River contains one of his best songs Point Blank. The hero sees his old lover on the streets and she doesn't say hi. The boss writes her a song how she is becoming just another lost soul of the society. He is sad for her, and sings her one the best lines in pop music history describing the sad nature of human condition: "Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright But tomorrow's fall in number in number one by one You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from" Lou Reed on the other side is certain that Sally ...

Denizli'nin tavsanlarindan muaf, takimin yavas yavas eski kondisyonuna kavustugu, Ernst-Fink, Sivok-Ferrari, Bobo-Nihat ikililerinin ideal ikililer oldugunun yeniden göz önüne ciktigi, Berlin-Carsi'nin yine kendine hayran biraktigi, Almanya'nin sogununun Ekim ayinda kic dondurdugu, Hakem'in bir penaltimizi yedigi, Rüstü'nün isinin futbolumuzla yasatamadigimiz heyecani tehlike yaratarak yasatmak oldugu, Ferrari'nin Obama'nin 2 saniye'de 2 kere adamin ayagina yatan versiyonu oldugunun görüldügü -bkz. üstteki resim- , alinan bir puan, ManU'nin attigi 1 gol ile iyiden iyiye son maclara kadar heyecan yasayanacaginin belli oldugu, senelerden sonra Babam'la evden seyrettigim güzel degil ama sempatik bir mac oldu. Baba-Ogul Besiktas'liligimiz benim dogum öncesine dayandigi icin eski futbolcular'dan dem vuruldu. Bu sabah su soru aklima takildi bundan 5 sene sonra geriye bakip hangi futbolcuyu konusacagiz? Besiktaslinin aklinda yer eden yabanci fut...

Maybe the God will be with us tonite. Maybe the we reached the bottom of the abyss we've been falling down. Maybe we will win, or draw in Wolfsburg tonite. Cause there is always hope for a better tomorrow. I know you cannot live on hope alone. But, without it, life is not worth living.

2 times 2 is four. Or isn't it? The nature of truth has eluded humanity for thousands of years. Before any set of thoughts can be considered as philosophy, it has to clearly define its epistemology - its version of the knowledge science. From different approaches to epistemology, mathematical ones have stood out as the ones that are most close to an ultimate epistemology. Yet in science and philosophy, even the most trivial facts has to be rigorously proven. And using mathematics as the ultimate epistemology has proved to be one of the most challenging undertakings in the intellectual history of humanity, which lead to many bright minds to go insane. Logiocomix , hailing from the birth place of Philosophy, is a very interesting comic book that chronicles this intellectual journey with the main protagonist being Bertrand Russell, and characters such as Wittgenstein -portrayed above during an attack of existentialist rage- Gödel, Carnot, Poincare and Von Neumann. I've ordered the...

Su Beko reklamli formali Besiktas'imi oyle ozluyorum ki. Seba'yi, söförü arka masada bas garson ile otururken, tek basina keyifle raki icerken görürdüm Ankara Atli Spor Klübünde. Bir de sirtina Baskan'in cebinden Demirören reklami vermeyip Kizilay reklami aldigi sacma sapan formalarimiz, ve Denizli spor maci sonrasi 50 korumanin esliginde staddan cikan diktator kilikli Demirören geliyor aklima. Cildiriyorum. Neyse ki eski günlerden bir dost geliyor yanibasimiza. Fani Madida Sivasspor'a yardimci antrenör olmus, hosgelmis. Maca gittim tribun dolmus, Kartal Fener'e koymus, Onbesinci dakikada nasil koydu Madida, Ulan ibne Kanarya!

Somewhere in this picture, there is a pale blue dot. It is your home. It is the home of every living thing that we know and we don't know of. This is a picture taken by the Voyager in 1990 of our planet from 6 billion kilometers away. It is the most humbling picture I have ever seen. It has been said that science does not provide moral values but religion does. I beg to differ. Even though science by itself, which is merely a method, cannot provide a moral framework, the fruits of knowledge it gives us let us define our morals. This picture is a great example. Carl Sagan, touched by this picture wrote a book on this. Here is an excerpt from the introduction, which everyone should listen from time to time to wash away his or hers false ideas of grandeur: "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In...

Hemann Maier, the Austrian alpine skiing legend, has announced his retirement from the professional skiing. He will be remembered for his: Incredible crash in Nagano Olympics, 3 days after which he won gold medals: His nearly error free style, which is so delightful to watch on hard slopes such as the legendary Streife: And his amazing recovery from his motorcycle accident, after which doctors almost amputated his lower leg.

Meet Lomako. A orphaned Bonobo who is rehabilitating in the Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary in Congo. Unfortunately, there are humans who were cruel enough to kill her mother, and leave her to die. You can help the sanctuary with a Paypal donation: http://www.friendsofbonobos.org/support.htm Lomako is a onion lover like I am. In a way she's even bigger of an Onion fan. She can eat as much fresh onions as her own body weight!

Insanoglu'nun her turlu dusunsel cabasinda karsilastigi bir zorluk var. Zorluk derken, cozulebilecek bir zorluktan ziyade, sogukta usumemiz, yokus cikarken yorulmamiz gibi varoldugumuz evrenin bir parcasi olan bir zorlugu kast ediyorum. Bu zorluk sudur ki, cevremizde gelisen olaylari anlayip, degisimlerin ayirdina varip tepkilerimizi verebilmek icin cevremizde gelisen olaylarin bir modelinin kafamizda olmasi gerekli. Misal su an yaninizda bulunan insanin yuzunu algilayabilmeniz icin kafamizda insan yuzu nasildir sorusunun bir soyutlamasi, bir basitlestirilmesi olmali. Bu tarz soyutlastirmalar karmasik dunyamizda yol almamizi kolaylastirirken, bazen buyuk resimi gormemizi engelliyor. Bazen de aslinda modelimizin acikladigi varliga ya da olaya karsilik gelmeyen nesneleri ve olgulari bu varliklara ya da olaylara atfetmemizi neden oluyor. Bu yuzden her turlu dusunsel cabada basitlestirmeleri dikkatli kullanmak gerekli. Uzun sureler buyukelcilik yapmis, simdi de ogretim uyeligi yapan Te...

Sir Richard Dawkins' favorite species . Just another demonstration how where an animal lives strongly determines its locomotion capabilities. Sadly, another twist of evolution, this incredible animal lives only and only in Madagascar, relying on a certain tree there. It's habitat being destroyed by farmers, its hunted for its fur, and as a result there are less than 1000 Silky Sifakas left in the entire Universe. They are one 25 critically engendered primates in the world. Just another repetition of the same old story.

"Far away, far away, Are not all lovely things far away? As far at least lies that valley, as the bedridden sun in the luminous east, The paralyzed mountains, the sickly river... Are not all things lovely far away, Are not all things lovely far away? Edgar Allen Poe - Valley of Unrest" Fall wakens the secret explorer in me. I have this urge to go to some beautiful place far away. This picture of Torres del Paine National Park in Chile and the Edgar Allan Poe Poem, which Lou Reed covered in his Raven Album describe my feelings these days perfectly.

  1. Dünya Savasi sonrasi büyük Irlanda'li sair William Butler Yeats cok karamsardir. Milyonlarin ölümü ile sonuclanan savasin daha büyük acilarin baskangici oldugunu dusunmektedir. Ispanya Ic Savasi, Büyük Buhran, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Holocaust, Hirosima ve Nagazaki, Pearl Harbour, Dresden, bütün bu kiyamatleri önceden gören cok da uzun olmayan ama depderin bir siir yazar. Ikinci Gelis -The Second Coming- su dizelerle acilir: Girdap dönüyor ve döndükce büyüyor, Sahin sahinciyi duyamiyor, Yikilirken hersey, temel tutmuyor. "Turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;" Sahin yerine Kartal'i koyun. Besiktas'imin durumunu daha güzel anlatmam mümkün degil. Bir girdaba yakalandik, ve büyüdükce büyüyor bu girdap. Kartal'in basi olmasi gereken Besiktas baskani, kandine karsi olacak tezahuratlari engellemek icin Besiktas'lilarin arasina milislerini sokuyor. Besiktas tribunu'nun ...

Meet Ardi. She is the oldest human ancestor ever found. She lived in the forests of the area what is now Ethiopia, 4.4 million years ago. This makes her allegorically the mother of Lucy , who lived 3.2 million years ago, and the grand mother of the Turkana boy , who is 1.5 million years old. An us? We are all the descendants of a handful of her great grandchildren who left Africa 50 000 years ago! The story of Ardi is a very interesting one. It started with a single molar teeth discovery in 1992. Careful excavation has gathered a complete skeleton: Recently 440 anthropologists published their findings in 10 papers. It is said that there are even older fossils that has been found in the same area, which are being investigated at the moment. So be ready for even more exciting results! The importance of Ardi is that it could both walk and climb. This is against the hypothesis that bipedal walking was an adaptation to the drier landscape of Africa, which had fewer trees. I am very excited...