My kinda graffiti

So facebook has an application called "graffiti" which allows you to draw anything you want with your mouse. I have messed around with it a bit but found that I could produce some rather cool stuff if only I spent a little more time on them. Here are a few I've done:




"In time, the brothers reached a river too deep to wade through and too dangerous to swim across. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I think I could have gone a lot further with this one but started getting bored looking at it.





An homage to "The little prince" perhaps my new favorite book.

Asimov On Why Democracy Cannot Survive Overpopulation

Taken from an interview will Bill Moyers on A World of Ideas:

MOYERS: What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?

ASIMOV: It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call my bathroom metaphor: If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want to and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom; it should be right there in the Constitution.

But if you have twenty people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door: "Aren't you through yet?" and so on. In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters.