Curitiba, Brazil has shown the first world how to create a simple, efficient, environmentally friendly, people friendly, socially responcible city on a shoe string budget.



I first learnt of Jaime Lerner's design of Curitiba on SBS Australia's Dateline.

He has turned his back on urban planning habits favouring livable human cities with parklands, programs to get people out of poverty and inexpencive public transport.

Treehuggers article:
The bus system takes priority over cars. I would imagine that you wouldn't have to see many buses wiz by in their bus lane to get over the need to take your own car into the daily trafic jam. Having a huge, bi-articulated bus on a road with cars would be disasterous but in their bus lanes this would not be a problem.






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Exhibit A



Iron of the Maiden

Iron Maiden shreds

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Torn by Johan Lippowitz with Natalie Imbruglia

It's definately better to comment on youtube videos on a blog than in the youtube site where the post size is limited and any comment just gets lost umungst the masses of other comments.

Anonomous have taken on a difficult task. It doesn't matter how many times a church is torn down it only reinforces the followers faith. You can't bring logic into the closed circular arguements offered by religion. There is a gap in the theist's brain that is filled by religion. Atheists are comfortable with this gap and don't yearn to fill it with nonsence. :P

This is an excellent video. The effect of having the monologue read by a computer is great. It sounds really menacing. Well done.

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg


Don't label me with the shortcomings of your mind.

The Dos and Don't with babies:

Cat Herding