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Here is an epic  panoramic view of Mars, with love from Curiosity. Thanks Engadget !

More images of the pursuit for gold at the Boston here .

"Saxoman". Taken in Central Park, NYC. Circa March 2007.

Caption from source: "GRRR: A young boy flexed his muscles during a regional bodybuilding competition in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Bodybuilding is one of the country’s most popular sports. ( Johannes Eisele / Agence France-Presse /Getty Images)" More photos of the day at Wall Street Journal .

Here is to peace, prosperity and happiness in the world. Photo taken shortly after midnight at one section of the River Thames in London, January 1 2012.

Photo credit: Dunia ni Duara

Dar-es-Salaam and Stone Town, Summer 2011.

(Thanks, Ma.)

Cross-posted on Vijana FM | May 25, 2011 Have we ceased to read between the lines? Do opinion pieces in the media conflict with fact-based pieces? This is a short story to explore potential answers to these two questions. A short time ago in human history, three friends from different corners of the world decided to get involved with the printing press. Rashidi was an avid reader, and had loved to read written works of his friends Nur and Nick throughout their days in school. As well as reading everything else, Rashidi was especially interested in reading his two friends’ works because they seemed to compliment eachother well in their perspectives. Nur was also a big reader, but an even bigger writer. She was known for her acute representation of facts. Brought up by parents who both worked for the national archives, Nur knew her history well. She believed that telling stories with fair treatment to all subjects was essential to writing. She was less enthusiastic about o...

If not us, who? If not now, when? (the image is just for decor, courtesy of my 'droid)

Gotta love good mornings.

I was wondering what life was like on daily basis at Tahrir Square right now, and I found this album on Yahoo Maktoob . Seems there are some interesting community-based initiatives for food, shelter and livelihood that the Mubarak regime could learn from.

I had the opportunity to go to this concert this past Friday, and was able to quickly snap two photos on my phone. While this was a similar concert to the one I went to last year featuring Alim Qasimov , I feel this year there was a larger audience that may have appreciated the blend across religious traditions.

Ever get the feeling you're stationary? No, not like in the picture above, but stationary as in you're not moving? It seems that when we define goals for ourselves, they need to substantiate daily actions, because otherwise, it seems we lack purpose. And when we lack purpose, anything we do seems to go to nothing. Why did we start calling stationary (like in the above photo) "stationary", anyway?

A tree near Al-Azhar park, Cairo.

Peace is within reach. We just haven't conceptualized it, methinks. Carpe diem, and see you next year!

I was archiving some photos I had picked up around the Internet over the years, and began wondering - why was it that I wasn't saving the source of the images? Then I thought about texts, and how many pieces of text we come across everyday, and how many of these pieces we actually care to activity seek for its author and not the words on the page. Perhaps reading does give off vibes in ways we don't recognize. Then I came back to the images and realized that if there lies a story in the picture, that story creates a certain intangible vibe that may not have anything to do with who or what created/captured it, or why.

(Courtesy Boston.com ) A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a flare as he wakeboards on a small lake in Hamburg, Germany on December 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Christian Charisius) I've known about the Boston.com "Big Picture" section for a while, but I thought this image was a nice juxtaposition of celebration, nature, and light all at the same time. Hannukah matata ;)