What then, is the universe and who governs it? No one? Yet how can it be that, while it is impossible for a city or a household to remain even a very short time without someone to govern and care for it, nevertheless this great and beautiful structure should be kept in such orderly arrangement by sheer accident and chance?

- Epictetus

Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt."

- Epictetus

Howard Lyman is a 4th generation cattle rancher who won't eat meat.

Think you've got some serious hardware? Take a look at the top 500 supercomputer sites in the world. Maui's own High-Performance Computing Center ranks at number 71.

What's wrong with milk? Oh, you mean besides inhumane treatment, breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, sick kids, fat, zits, gas, and mucus? Not much, I guess.

I say to thee weapons reach not the Life;
Flame burns it not, waters cannot o'erwhelm,
Nor dry winds wither it. Impenetrable,
Unentered, unassailed, unharmed, untouched,
Immortal, all-arriving, stable, sure,
Invisible, ineffable, by word.

- from the Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold

Three blogs definitely worth visiting:

David Weinberger (Internet pundit, TinyApps supporter and all-around swell guy)
Jason Kottke (a collection of hypertext fragments, among other things)
This Modern World (you know, the funny penguin)

Thomas Jefferson: "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

It seems as if most folks are unconcerned about sharing their mail server username and password with anyone running a packet sniffer. According to SecurityFocus, "At the 802.11 Planet Expo only three percent of e-mail downloads were encrypted on the first day of the conference, 12 percent on the second day." This tutorial by John Fitzgibbon makes setting up an SSH tunnel for POP mail insanely easy.

from chapter 11 of the Tao Te Ching (Steven Mitchell translation):

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? ... It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.
- Plutarch

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet