Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Some Online September 11th sites

Trade Center Memorial Foundation: www.buildthememorial.org
Voices of Sept 11 family Web site: www.911livingmemorial.org
Sept 11 digital archive: www.911digitalarchive.org
New York State 9/11 archives: www.nyshrab.org/ wtc/ s_wtc_projects.shtml

Friday, 20 April 2007

Thought - one of many

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, Digital Biota Cambridge speech, 1998 (www.biota.org/ people/ douglasadams/ index.html)
Quoted in Richard Dawkin's eulogy for Douglas Adams in 2001 (see edge.org/ documents/ adams_index.html )

Wednesday, 20 December 2006

Tenth Anniversary: Carl Sagan Memorial


http://nicksagan.blogs.com/ nick_sagan_online/ 2006/ 12/ dad.html
Though he worried about the state of the world from time to time, it never stopped him. And when we'd talk about what things might be like in twenty-five, fifty or a hundred years, he said he knew there would be difficult challenges ahead, but he believed we were up to the task. He believed in human ingenuity and compassion, in thinking long-term instead of short, in putting our many differences and superstitions aside. He believed in a better tomorrow. He believed in us.
www.donaldedavis.com/ PARTS/ SAGAN.html
Carl Sagan died on December 20th, 1996 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, with wife Ann Druyan and other family members at his side.
To many of the space artists Carl Sagan was known as among the greatest patrons of our art.
He crossed the substantial gulf between scientist and public educator. His career spanned the transformation of the solar System from tiny telescopic objects to places seen and understood from human and mechanical experience. Unveiling this reality of our cosmic situation was part of his life, and spreading the appreciation of these truths and their implications was another aspect of his life.

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