This Week in balearic sunrises, awkward cat poses and other…

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Jr.  I generally stick with sarcasm and disdain… but def not hate. Specially not on this Isle. 

 

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."  Albert Einstein 

"This is the future of medicine, on a silicon plate. What appear to be lollipops on a tray are in fact magnified micro-robots, only 0.5mm in diameter. As soon as a laser cuts them free, they are ready to carry their cargo into our bodies." Inner Space in reality… now that, I am impressed with!

So beefa has imbued R$N with actual reading material this week… we've read more than two lines on a web-page for the first time in who knows when.

Did you know about the 'proto-Facebook' (doing it a diservice) online community The WELL and its founder Stewart Brand founded 30 years ago? I did not. Go learn.

Oooh, there's some really good stuff on (tries to say this in a massively non-geeky way) Independent technology this week: Google's world wide web wars – locked in a series of increasingly fierce fights with national governments

Scotsman dies, taking town's dialect with him – the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect. 

I want to watch a good film, can you help?.

25 most awkward cat sleeping postitions including:

Lucky russian not wearing a seatbelt:

"Listening to an interesting documentary on Robert Wyatt right now, a great favorite of J Peel, and the kind of musician that is just not made anymore" : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n11cz from L.

Ummm…really not sure what's going on here:

I tried to find something interesting and poetic about Ibiza but all I appear to have chanced upon is this little beauty: balearicmystique.com/poetry… sweet jesus lord. Hippies + poetry = very very no!