- Tacitus, some Roman guy

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiriting new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. “All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,” said Emerson. “They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.

- Nicholas Carr

ودَّعْتُها ويدي اليمينُ لأدمعي
ويدي اليسارُ لضمَّةٍ وعناقِ
قالت أما تخشى الفضيحةَ قلت لا
يومُ الوداعِ فضيحةُ العشّاقِ

- ابن الوردي

The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.

- Amusing Ourselves To Death

From 'Over the Garden Wall'

"America favors all those who possess both a talent and a format to amuse. As a result, we as people are on the verge of amusing ourselves to death"

The strongest type of reinforcement (like in gambling)

Sexual differences in hormones are just too weird

Sexual differences in the brain are even more weird

It's been known for decades that there are sexual differences in the brains of women and men (especially in the hypothalamus, which controls things like sexual drive)

But that's not the end of it... Apparently the brains of gay men look more like the brains of heterosexual women than men.

واحرَّ قَلباهُ مِمَّن قَلبُهُ شَبِمُ
وَمَن بِجِسمي وَحالي عِندَهُ سَقَمُ

- المتنبي

As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

- Is Google making us stupid

أَريقُكِ أَم ماءُ الغَمامَةِ أَم خَمرُ
بِفِيَّ بَرودٌ وَهوَ في كَبِدي جَمرُ

رَأَت وَجهَ مَن أَهوى بِلَيلٍ عَواذِلي
فَقُلنَ نَرى شَمسًا وَما طَلَعَ الفَجرُ

رَأَينَ الَّتي لِلسِحرِ في لَحَظاتِها
سُيوفٌ ظُباها مِن دَمي أَبَدًا حُمرُ

- المتنبي

Ash crow
From 'Berserk'

Dragonslayer
From 'Berserk'