Vertaling uit het Engels van mijn vorige post via de website InterTran.

Veelgeliefd Medische Mythe
” Voort naar de onderwerp van dorststillend, een ander mens tendens zit zuurstof-fortified dronk voor aanvullen uw troep van zuurstof. Op moeten verwondering u welk ademhaling werken wedder. Zuurstof beste boekt naar de bloodstream via naar de long, niet naar de maag. U zou nood voor dronk zowat te liter van oxygenated water om 30 tweede te halen te zwaar snakken naar waarde van extra zuurstof, en zulks veronderstellen u don’t pis. “

” I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. “

Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life and Writings

Indeed I’ve always thought one of the great advantages of humanism is precisely that it doesn’t need a priesthood, it doesn’t need constant reinforcement. People can come to it themselves as a logical conclusion. And many people do. It’s one of its strengths. He had a respect for Christian belief but I remember one of the things he said: he said he’d never met a Christian who believed in the existence of heaven and hell as much as they believed in the existence of Australia.

Christopher Hitchens interviewed

” Shneiderman lambasts the ‘old computing’, in which design was driven by technology. Marketing the speed of microprocessors is ultimately irrelevant to the end user, he says, because all users care about is a good experience. “

w.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DB22.htm>Sp!ked.

” They have such violence in Holland, but rather than duking it out among themselves, Santa and his former slaves decided to take it out on the public. In the early years, if a child was naughty, Saint Nicholas and the six to eight black men would beat him with what Oscar described as “the small branch of a tree.”

“A switch?”

“Yes,” he said. “That’s it. They’d kick him and beat him with a switch. Then, if the youngster was really bad, they’d put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.”

“Saint Nicholas would kick you?”

David Sedaris, Six to Eight Black Men

” [I]t’s a triumph of self-esteem. My favorite polling result of the 2000 election was a Time magazine survey that revealed that 19 percent of Americans believe that they have incomes in the top 1 percent, and a further 20 percent believe they will someday. A large majority of us regard ourselves as pretty far above average. “

David Brooks: On and Off target in 2002 in the NY Times.

” Fortuyn mag een recept zijn voor ruzie, maar de meeste bestaande politieke partijen zijn een recept voor stagnatie. Ik weet niet wat erger is. “

Arend Jan Boekestijn op 11 februari, in: NRC-Handelsblad.