It wasn't that far back that Paul Scofield was brought to my mind in relation to discussing Thomas More (in the 'William F Buckley, dead' thread at the Making Light blog). I watched a few online clips from A Man for All Seasons. Now he joins our other recent losses, leaving, we are comforted, a legacy we can continue to benefit from ( Read more... )

Trade Center Memorial Foundation: http://www.buildthememorial.org/Read more... )

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, ...
- Douglas Adams, ( Read more... )

Giant Blog-o-thon Memorial Meta-Post by Joel Schlosberg
joelschlosberg.blogspot.com/ 2006/ 12/ carl-sagan-blog-thon-meta-post.html
Links to many places that have posted something about Carl Sagan on this anniversary.


http://nicksagan.blogs.com/ nick_sagan_online/ 2006/ 12/ dad.htmlThough he worried about the state of the world from time to time, ( Read more... )