Harold Pinter

The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library

Study these guys

Pierre Tal-Coat

André Masson

Bram van Velde

Isis - Grinning Mouths

Isis - Backlit

Zarathustra

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: “Ever God hath his hell: it is his love for man.”

And lately did I hear him say these words: “God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”—Zarathustra, II., "The Pitiful."

from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Mountain - PJ Harvey

Faust

I HAVE, alas! Philosophy,
Medicine, Jurisprudence too,
And to my cost Theology,
With ardent labour, studied through.
And here I stand, with all my lore,
Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Faust Part I

The Pareto curve of freedom post over at Shtetl-Optimized (which I recommend as well).

The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. Wow! Heh.

"I brainstorm all potential possibilities, regularly, just in case."

-Me

Jürgen Habermas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas

Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funny

For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world. I spent the remainder of my youth in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding intercourse with men of different dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, in proving myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me, and, above all, in making such reflection on the matter of my experience as to secure my improvement. For it occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each individual with reference to the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted by a man of letters in his study, regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable. In addition, I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed it in with confidence.

Discourse on Method - Rene Descartes

The science of love, and the future of women - Helen Fisher

Watched a great preso by Larry Wall on Perl 6 and associated ideas/philosophy/direction. I love this stuff. I really love this stuff. I stumbled across this link whilst reading a post by Chris Dolan on his blog over at Code Flux.

Great stuff.

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting... by Larry Wall. Brilliant read. People need to take a more holistic approach to their programming. One of the comments to this article summed it up nicely - this should be required reading for anyone aspiring to call themselves a programmer.

But then I'm perl biased (probably because I know it well unlike most of its detractors? :D).

Cool street art.

Stranger Things Have Happened - Foo Fighters

Another fine song. Hey I never said I wasn't a wishful thinker - *nudge* *nudge*, *wink* *wink* :D

goddamn this dusty room
this hazy afternoon
i'm breathing in this silence like never before
this feeling that i get
this one last cigarette
as i lay awake and wait for you to come through that door
oh maybe, maybe, maybe i can share it with you
i behave i behave i behave so i can share it with you

you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
so stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know
i'm not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know, oh ohh, oh ohhh

you'll dream about somewhere, a smoke will fill the air
as i lay awake and wait for you to walk out that door
i can change, i can change, i can change, but who do you want me to be?
i'm the same, i'm the same, i'm the same, what do you want me to be?

you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know oh ohh, oh ohhh

i am not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know

i am not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know oh ohh, oh ohhh

Does this give you a hardon?

$ perldoc -f fork

If you "fork" without ever waiting on your children, you will accumulate zombies. On some systems, you can avoid this by setting $SIG{CHLD} to "IGNORE". See also perlipc for more examples of forking and reaping moribund children.

I thought so.