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The Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery had spent two days meticulously pouring sand into the intricate mandala design, but it took a small boy only a matter of seconds to undo their hard work.

In the words of Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City "he did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it."

The monks saw the destruction Wednesday.

"No problem," Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. "We didn't get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder."

I just love the monks attitude to this.

Labels: Buddhism

Saw Zodiac yesterday and I'm in two minds about it.

Part of me thinks that it was really tedious but another part thinks that it is magnificent extremely well made film. Perhaps it is just that it's a magnificent extremely well made tedious film.

I will definitely have to see it again and next time hopefully without an audience that is full of teenage boys who were obviously bored off their tits having been expecting something more along the lines of Seven or something.

It is wonderfully intricate and almost overly obsessive about the minor details. David Fincher the director seems as obsessive about the details of the case as his protagonist Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal).

I think Procedural Harry is a very apt description. In many ways it feels like the cinematic equivalent of something like The Wire and perhaps would have benefited from the wider scope that 10 hours of television gives so that the lives of the characters outside of the confines of the case could be more widely explored.

But then these are not just characters in a film they are real people with real lives they may wish to keep private, nevertheless I would have loved to have seen much more of Mark Ruffalo's character David Toschi.

I'm almost certain this is a masterpiece but it will need further viewing for me to decide.

Labels: movies

TrueCrypt is free software that encrypts data “on-the-fly”. You can create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory. TrueCrypt is portable -- it works on GNU/Linux and Windows. Worried about losing your valuable data when your laptop gets stolen? Don't wait and encrypt your data now!

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Labels: Computer security, Digg

Landspeeders, Banthas, even Han & Chewie escaping from Docking Bay 94 in the Falcon! It's all here in impressive LEGO detail. Flickr user Bluemoose uploaded these photos from the 2007 Leicester LEGO Fest. Check out his photoset!

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Labels: Digg, LEGO, Star Wars

Somehow our media turned Ahmedinijad's benign statement "As the Soviet Union disappeared, the Zionist regime will also vanish and humanity will be liberated." into the menacing "Israel will be wiped out". Our media also conveniently ignored the statement by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that "We will never start a war."

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This puzzle game takes me back to my years at university studying electronics.

Although there was more drinking of beer and less building of killer robots as far as I can recall.

Labels: Games

Jony, 8 years old, with his skateboard specially imported from the USA and all the passion his little heart can muster, guides us in our journey through the skaters' world.
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=41185

Labels: FourDocs, movies

Ethical campaigner Keith Davis was fined £100 by magistrates in Bath after being convicted of shoplifting from a whole-food cooperative shop - after striking up a conversation with staff about environmental issues in order to divert their attention. Davis admitted to stealing oats, wine, vitamins and toilet roll from the Harvest Natural Foods store

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Just WOW! Best episode ever! The last few episodes of the season better be this good.

We're gonna be having some kinda of showdown between The Others and The Flight 815 survivors for sure when they come for Sun.

I hope we get the explanation for who or what Jacob is too. Also how the fuck does Richard not appear to have aged in 30 years?

I think Jacob in the very brief glimpse that we saw of him looked like Locke but with hair and a bit of a beard. Although given my theorising about what's going on that is probably wrong and it's not Locke at all.

I think that Ben became the leader of the Others because Richard recognised he had a special affinity with the island when he learnt that Ben was able to see his dead mother there and by that also have the ability to communicate with Jacob (who or what ever he might be).

I think Ben was able to summon his mother there in the same way that I believe Locke summoned his own father.

Ben fears that the Others may choose to replace him with Locke who seems to have a greater affinity with the island than Ben currently does. Richard undermined Ben's plan to remove Locke from the group by giving Locke the means to kill his father through Sawyer.

Perhaps Richard is the real man behind the curtain.

Labels: Lost, TV

Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo

SEOUL, South Korea - They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.

As part of its annual city festival, the South Korean capital staged Thursday what was billed as the world's first high-wire championship, drawing 18 contestants from nine countries for three days of supreme feats of concentration.

Each acrobat must navigate the 1.2-inch-thick wire that spans the river, with the top prize of $15,000 going to the person crossing it fastest.

Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.

Best Han Solo quotes ever and when to use them in conversation.

But one of my personal favourites is missing from the list.

And I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!

Not sure if you could use that in polite conversation though.

Labels: movies

Is it just me or does CTU LA seem to be the least secure Counter Terrorist facility on the planet. I've lost track now of how many times it has been successfully infiltrated or attacked it seems to have at least once a season if not more.

Hour 21 of Season 6 and it has happened again and been taken over by Chinese agents. Poor foolish Milo. This would never have happened had Bill Buchanan been left in charge!

Labels: Security, TV