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Come, let us be friends, for once and let us make life easy on us let us be lovers and loved ones the earth shall be left to no one. an old Sufi poem from a lecture by Elif Shafak

b-list celebrities are forced to sit and watch a slide show, complete with description, of photos taken by ordinary people while on vacation.

"Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" A title for a talk at the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1972, in which Edward Lorenz would speak.

In a 1943 Merry Melodies cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, titled 'Falling Hare' a character refers to a bomb as a 'blockbuster.' Funny, a term that now describes a tremendously successful film, was once a nickname for a bomb.

A friend showed me an ad for the new 'droid' cell phone (slash computer.) It had a picture of the device with a solid black screen and a glowing red dot in the center, a close resemblance of the HAL 9000 computer from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. You know, the one that murdered everyone on the spaceship. I found it kind of funny.