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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

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حبيب الظلام عدو الحياة

ألا أيها الظالم المستبد

وكفك مخضوبة من دماه

سخرت بأناة شعب ضعيف

وتبذر شوك الأسى في رباه

وسرت تشوه سحر الوجود

وصحو الفضاء وضوء الصباح

رويدك لا يخدعنك الربيع

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In the 1930s Paul Keres (1916-1975) of Estonia emerged as one of the top chessplayers in the world. When Germany invaded Estonia in 1939, Keres was asked to participate in chess tournaments for Nazi propaganda.
Once Estonia was “liberated” and became a Soviet republic, the authorities accepted that he come back to the USSR, providing […]

Found funny anagrams at http://www.anagramsite.com/.

McDonalds Restaurants = Uncle Sam’s standard rot.
Clint Eastwood = Old west action.
George W Bush = He grew bogus.
American Dream = Aim? Damn career!
Bill Gates = begat ills
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer: Complexities front ten errors
Microsoft Windows = Sown in discomfort
i am loving it = ailing vomit
New York Times: […]

A Perl script to integrate graphics into a HTML file.
Requires Perl with the following CPAN modules: HTML::TokeParser and MIME::Base64.
Handles HTML and XHTML documents, recognizes GIF, PNG and JPEG graphics, parses full path image files, compatible with standards.
See a live example (the documentation itself) here.
Click here to download the script.

Year in Roma used to start at March and end at January; and months were named as the following:

March: Martius: God of war.
April: Aprilis from aperire, “to open,” in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open”.
May: named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman […]

El propósito de abolir el pasado ya ocurrió en el pasado y es una de las pruebas de que el pasado no se puede abolir. El pasado es indestructible; tarde o temprano vuelven todas las cosas, y una de las cosas que vuelven es el proyecto de abolir el pasado”.
Jorge Luis Borges

Here’s a little script to display memory status and refresh it each 5 seconds. You need xmessage to run it:
while free -otm|xmessage -buttons “Close”:1,refresh:0 -default “close” -timeout 5 -file -;do :;done

It’s amazing that the Molotov Cocktail, referring to the Soviet (stalinist) minister Vyacheslav Mikhailowicz Skryabin - Molotov -, was never useful for the USSR!
It had been used first by the Spanish Nationalists against the T-26 Soviet tanks (1936-1939), then in the Winter war by Finnish against the Red Army.
When the USSR invaded Hungary in […]

Saviez-vous que:

Si vous criez pendant 8 ans, 7 mois et 6 jours, vous produirez assez d’énergie acoustique pour chauffer une tasse de café. (ça n’a pas l’air d’en valoir la peine)
Si vous pétez continuellement pendant 6 ans et 9 mois, assez de gaz est produit pour créer l’énergie d’une bombe atomique .(Ah, là c’est […]

The name of the former president of ex-Zaire was Joseph Désiré Mobutu; as Mobutu means (in Swahili, I think) “rooster” (cock), he set a name to himself: Mobutu sese seko kuku ngbendu wa za banga which means: “The rooster who sings victory, the warrior who moves from a conquest to another and no one […]

La mejor película mejicana para mí es La Ley de los Herodes.
En 1949, El alcade de un pequeño pueblo es linchado por sus abusos de poder. El Gobernador decide nombrar a Juan Vargas, encargado de un basurero y antiguo militante del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), como sucesor del puesto; Vargas trata de hacer su […]

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one.
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend second - if there is one.
Churchill’s reply

You have two cows under the following regimes:

Capitalism: You milk them and pour the lot down the drain to keep the price up.
Socialism: You keep one and give the other to your neighbor.
Communism: The Government takes both and shares the milk with you and your neighbor.
Fascism: You give the milk to the government and […]

O nome “Fátima” é muçulmano, porém este nome existe no Portugal e no Brasil e é considerado como católico; alias, há uma cidade santa no Portugal chamando-se Fátima.
Aqui está a historia do nome:
Fátima era filha de um chefe árabe, raptada por um guerreiro português que se apaixonou pela moça. ela se converteu ao cristianismo […]