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Joi Ito's Web: "My mind was full of open source and the future of the Internet. The atomic bomb and World War II were definitely not on my mind. It would be an interesting challenge and it's not every day that the New York Times asks you to do an op ed, so I accepted."

An Anniversary to Forget - New York Times: "For my generation, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the war in general now represent the equivalent of a cultural 'game over' or 'reset' button. Through a combination of conscious policy and unconscious culture, the painful memories and images of the war have lost their context, surfacing only as twisted echoes in our subculture. The result, for better and worse, is that, 60 years after Hiroshima, we dwell more on the future than the past."

viciously marZipaned janina: "An asian businessman was sitting opposite me playing with his mobile phone. Everyone who entered the carriage looked at the seat next to him and then chose to sit far away or stand, some walked right past the central seats to the other end of the carriage. Now I understand that people are scared but it is unfair, unreasonable and upsetting to me and undoubtedly the man opposite me that someone should be discriminated against in this way."

Idle Words: "(...) But NASA dismisses such helpful suggetions as unworthy of its mission of 'exploration', likening critics of manned space flight to those Europeans in the 1500's who would have cancelled the great voyages of discovery rather than face the loss of one more ship.

Of course, the great explorers of the 1500's did not sail endlessly back and forth a hundred miles off the coast of Portugal, nor did they construct a massive artificial island they could repair to if their boat sprang a leak."

doc's dog day: "I have been looking forward towards something positive in my life for so long. I just want this wait to be fruitful and worthwhile, and also not too distant away. I always wonder if I can learn how to love anymore. Seriously I have been in and out of relationships so many times that I am too sceptical about the sanctity of love. Does it even exists?"