I visited Stowe Gardens today and in the grounds they have a series of statues depicting famous people such as Queen Victoria, Shakespeare and Sir Issac Newton. Amoungst the other famous heads was this one.
The text above reads as follows:
who best of all philosophers
understood the powers of the human mind
the nature end and bounds of civil government
and with equal courage and sagacity refuted
the slavish systems of usurpd authority
over the rights the consciences or the reason of mankind
If this is not a real tie-in to the character John Locke on the TV show Lost, then I am a frenchman. It is quite critical to the plot of the story as John Locke is obviously the main character and is the real leader of The Others.
The way I read that text is that John Locke understands the power of the human mind over authority and convention. He is also overthrowing the usurped authority on the island (the others taking over the Dharma Project?) in order to preserve the conscience and reason of mankind.
Alot of what the character, John Locke believes in on the island is to do with the powerof the mind and that the island will provide answers to questions and needs. This text seems to tie in with that.
Any losties out there reading this?
ps. Read The Lost Blog after each episode for and excellent (and funny) run through of the events and some excellent points you may have missed, plus many comments from other readers.
It looks like the Xbox360 will be getting a dashboard update this spring to allow for integration with MSN Messenger! Also to be released is this natty little QWERTY keyboard addon for the controller. Other updates to the service will include:
Apart from the obvious benefits 
I promised the kids that after we finished reading 
It all starts with a little blue chap called Igglepiggle on his boat in the ocean. Igglepiggle looks kind of retarded with a potato for a head, a red comfort blanket in one hand and a rattle in the other. He drifts off to sleep and is transported to the Night Garden, where his friends live.
Upsy Daisy, the ethnic ragga-doll who is always dancing. She also has a bed tht runs away from her and she has to chase it around, whilst dancing.
The Tombliboos, who are three small baby creatures who make the Roswell alien look cuddly. There is a shot of The Tombliboos asleep that would make any hardened parent shiver with fright. They look like little hairless birds or something. Just plain odd!
Makka Pakka lives in a cave with his favorite stones, which he cuddes at night. He also pushes around something called the Og-Pog which carries his sponge which is used for cleaning the other creatures in the night garden.
The Pontipines and the Wottingers are families of tiny people that live in a tree. They are like little clothes peg people and move around in a stop-frame animation style reminicient of bagpuss. Each family has ten members, so we know what they have been doing in that tree all winter!
The most odd are The Haahoos, which are great big enourmous brightly coloured inflatable shapes that inhabit the Night Garden and can be seen leering in the background like scary clowns who are just seconds away from “getting stabby”.
Of course there is also the Ninky-Nonk, a small train made from oddly shaped houses which seems to be small one minute and then giant the next. Large enough for the creatures to go into and then out of, and then into again over and over. The Ninky-Nonk also has a fellow transport friend known as the Pinky Ponk which is an airship that farts and squelches as it drifts through the forest landscape.
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.