Seems like all the poems I like are made by Englishmen. This one was written in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design makes a product understandable
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is long-lasting
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
Good design is environmentally friendly
Good design is as little design as possible
Everyone’s angry at the Filipino right now. Even Filipinos are angry at themselves. And who can blame them, really.
The whole thing is a clusterfuck of ugliness and incompetence, with a generous amount of insensitivity on the side. I fear it’ll forever be a stain on the name of the Pinoy.
In the same way that we were a model of how to stage a bloodless revolution, we’ll now be held as a dark example of how wrong law enforcers and the media can be; how easily common sense and simple decency can be tossed aside in favor of big ratings and souvenir pictures.
It’s really a sad and very messy situation. Now I even hear conspiracy theories sprouting up, mostly to the tune of discrediting the current administration. Whether they are true or not remains to be seen. But if past experience of living in this country has taught me anything, it’s that justice is slow and oftentimes painful.
The people responsible must be held culpable, of course, but as Bob Ong put it, the most important thing right now is to move forward. It would be a big mistake to be sucked into the trap of self-flagellation for too long while awaiting the results of all the investigations ongoing.
Looking for a “retro” game done right? Look no further.
Retro City Rampage takes the formula of the original Grand Theft Auto (a top-down view of open-world mayhem) and adds a few cues and homages from older games like Contra and TMNT (spread guns and underwater levels), all in a sprite’d and chiptune’d package.
I wish it were coming on something other than the Wii.
UPDATE: This tweet by the developers pretty much opens the doors for it to come to the PS3 soon enough. Noice! :D
And shepherds we shall be,
for Thee, my Lord, for Thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand,
that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
and teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
…listening to this song (the aptly named Can’t Stop by Mozella).
Been listening to a lot of jazz/soul lately. I’m looking for other artists in the ilk of Regina Spektor, Jaymay, Cat Power, Nina Simone, Julie London… any suggestions?