Five for the 5th

Here are five things for the 5th:

1.
I stumbled upon an Octavio Paz quote that rings in my head. It's something that I truly came to realize only a few years ago, and the reality of it still makes me pause. He said, "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he's alone."

2.
An excerpt from an Economist article a while back:
"Our future history will be more determined by our position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe," said the American president as he contemplated the extraordinary commercial opportunities that were opening up in Asia.
Guess who said this? The article continues...
"More than a hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt made this prediction, American leaders are again looking across the Pacific to determine their own country's future, and that of the rest of the world. Rather later than Roosevelt expected, China has become an inescapable part of it."

3.
David Lebovitz
Living the sweet life in Paris.
This is a great blog.
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/

4.
Here's the BBC News profile on Aung San Suu Kyi.
She deserved the Noble Peace Prize. She also deserves freedom.
http://bit.ly/6LMHQS

5.
Found this on TED. I am a fan of Pilobolus and really enjoyed this. It is symbiosis...