Today's A.Word.A.Day Quote

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. -Joseph Roux, priest and writer
(1834-1886)

Quote of the day: On Poetic Inspiration.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. - Wallace Stevens, poet (1879-1955)

 

(from today's AWAD list)

And here's to you, Ms Snow White.

If I wasn't at 3.7 PSI I'd whistle while I work - Pete Conrad

Cookie of the Day.

Slashdot's One Liner of the Day:

We're all looking for a woman who can sit in a mini-skirt and talk philosophy, executing both with confidence and style.

 

Amen and all that. 
 

Rumours of 400, but never 434.

Just to say that I've dedicated my life to the morals of Herschelle
Gibbs' 175. There's something to be said about becoming superhuman
just by complete concentration.

Quote of the Day: On Information.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention
of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert
Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)