tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333051152012-02-16T16:11:54.691-05:00Wow, just look at all this stuff I found!Sean Hannifinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11754499128178916466noreply@blogger.comBlogger5061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33305115.post-45653417859315341502010-08-19T17:21:00.002-04:002010-08-19T17:28:58.945-04:00

I found this via dduane on twitter.According to the article:The Moon is shrinking!Well, a little: new results from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that over recent geological time, the Moon has shrunk by approximately 100 meters in diameter!...Well, you have to put this into perspective: the Moon’s diameter is about 3475 kilometers. This shrinkage is only about 0.003% of that. In other

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Since Google Blogger no longer allows FTP publishing (as if Google really needs to cut back on costs), and I am too lazy... er... I mean too busy to turn the blog into a WordPress blog, I have migrated the Stuff I Found blog here! Enjoy!I'm not sure I really like that blue bar at the top of the page, but it might make editing easier later on, so I'll probably keep it.Also, I might be switching

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According to Google's Blogger:FTP publishing will no longer be available after May 1, 2010Therefore this blog will die.If I find anything, I'll post it on The New Blather, my main blog.Farewell, Stuff I Found!

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This new ad for the Droid has been offending some people... can you tell why?I don't think any of the Droid ads are very good (in fact, most ads in general are not very good), but I don't understand what's offensive about this. Actually, the metaphors make sense to me.(Although I do find the fruit abuse to be terribly offensive. Because of this, I'm only going to eat meat. I can't believe the

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This has been getting a ton of hits, so you might have seen it already. But I thought it was pretty hilarious, so I'm posting here for my "Stuff I Found" archive...

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According to this article:Apparently, new Android development projects have increased some 94 percent since news of the more powerful Google handset leaked out. Games developers, in particular, have shown far more interest, in part due to the fact that developers now have access to Bluetooth connectivity (for multiplayer connections) and support for HTML5, which will allow browser-based web games

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Well... that looks interesting. I find the film to be quite hilarious, but I can't imagine it working as a musical at all. I look forward hearing samples of the songs...Rarararara rara ra ra...

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Here's an interesting article in which Roger Penrose mentions that he thinks modern quantum physicists are going about the science all wrong, viewing the world as a collection of probabilities instead of as determistic, as it was viewed by Einstein (God does not play dice). I agree with Penrose, mostly just from my own world-view that the universe is completely deterministic, as I certainly

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Here's a pretty cool article from Wired describing how one "space photographer" creates his space photos, showing how you too can create mind-blowing photos with just time and a few $10,000's of dollars. I found the process to be very interesting, and the results will have you seeing stars.I only take issue with one thing: this quote:So, we live in a golden age for space photos, but looking at

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Cool! :-)

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According to this article:Plans have been in the works for a while to make movies based on (among others) Stretch Armstrong, Hot Wheels, Battleship, and even View-Master. And now plans have been announced for a movie based on LEGO.Of course, who knows if they'll ever really make it or if if will just sit on the shelf for years like most movie ideas. I look forward to the View-Master movie myself

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According to this article:You’re not under arrest, despite the fact that you probably have some drugs in your pocket. Because there’s a good chance your paper money contains trace amounts of cocaine. According to a study presented August 16th at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting, up to 90 percent of American paper bills are contaminated with cocaine. In Washington, D.C., it’s as

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Somebody put this video on Facebook:I never quite understood the overpopulation fear. What does it mean to be overpopulated? That we have too many people living on the planet to feed, and some will die? Well, if some die, doesn't that pretty much solve the overpopulation problem? To me it seems like fearing overpopulation is fearing that the Earth will one day support more people than it can.

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This UFO (or whatever) was spotted over the weekend at a theme park that's about an hour away from me.A few things:1) That drop ride on the right is really fun! I've been on it quite a few times.2) King's Dominion said it was a smoke ring from another ride... not entirely unbelievable, but that is strangely stable for a smoke ring.3) There have been similar sightings of these weird rings in the

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According to the article:A young girl named Kennedy attended the town hall with her father, who was called on to ask a question.Her father, John Corpus, started his query saying he hoped his daughter wouldn’t get into trouble for missing the last day of school.“Do you need me to write a note?” Obama asked.Clearly assuming that Obama was just kidding, Corpus continued with his question — only to

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Pretty cool... if game designers will utilize it well. It'd be cool to see this sort of thing on a computer instead of a console, where developers have a bit more development freedom, and hobbyists can join in the fun.

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I got the idea for this post from reading this other person's blog post about how people should dress and present themselves at performances. It's not really snobbish, but it did make me wonder: does this blogger understand why she wants what she wants, why certain clothing and hair styles look more "professional" than others? Isn't it subjective? Isn't fashion in general a very strange

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This article has some interesting videos showing changes on the planet's surface...Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization — and NASA

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Here are a few WolframAlpha easter eggs from a couple Mashable articles.Easter eggs 1Easter eggs 2Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck...

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According to this article:Researchers in Japan have pitted human adults against five-year-old chimpanzees in a test of mental agility and memory - and the chimps won.In a test of short-term memory involving numbers flashed on a computer screen, the apes comfortably beat their human opponents.This astonishing result, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that in at least some respects

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I had never seen a Jerboa before... there certainly aren't any here in the USA... what a creepy looking little creature... like a deformed gerbil.

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In case you were ever wondering what Biff from Back to the Future is up to these days...

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Actually it's Cameron's house... but wow, that's nice house. I wouldn't be fond of cleaning all that glass though. And doesn't look like there are any shades. According to the post:The stunning Ben Rose Home, which was Cameron's house in the movie, is now available for sale.The property includes two buildings. One of them was used as a garage/car museum in real life and in the movie. The home

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According to this article:Investigators of a house fire in Bellevue, Wash., last week are suggesting an elevated 11-inch wide glass bowl of water magnified the sun’s rays onto a wood deck, sparking a blaze that caused more than $200,000 worth of damage.So don't give your dog glass bowls on sunny days!Reminds me of the fire that started in my house due to concentrated light rays...http://

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According to this article:... once Facebook finds out that a user has died, that person’s profile is automatically memorialized. What this means is that for thirty days, sensitive information (status updates and contact information, for example) is taken off the page, the profile can only be looked at by friends (the friend list is also locked), and people are able to post messages and photos on

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According to the article:A higher power is trying to save the religion department at Florida International University.The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan holy leader, has pledged $100,000 to help save the University's program, one of three at FIU which is slated to close.Well, no wonder he's always so happy if he has that kind of money to donate!

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According to this TechCrunch article:Launched in public beta today, Navify intends to enrich Wikipedia by adding pictures, videos and user comments to each article. And it actually works pretty well. Look up “Sony Rolly” using Navify and you not only get the original Wikipedia text but also hundreds of related pictures and videos (pulled in from Flickr and YouTube) by clicking on the tabs Navify

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According to this article, a Japanese man, Toda, has set a new world record for the longest flight of a paper airplane: 27.9 seconds! To break the record, Toda employed the use of a new idea in physics..."I had thought that the world record was impossible to break, but the key to breaking the record is how high you fly it," Mr Toda told The Daily Telegraph.Woah!! Can you believe it? Turns out

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This sign contains some rather useless trivia, don't you think?

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According to this article:Scientists interested in the effects of stereotype on memory enlisted 103 seniors between 60- and 82-years-old to take a memory test. Before the test, some subjects were told that the test checked the effects of age on memory. Researchers call this a threat—it reminds participants of the stereotype. ...The other group was told that the test controlled for biases. This

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Here's a great TED talk from Dan Ariely about how much we really control our decisions. Psychology is a huge factor in economic decision making, one that is often ignored. This is a pretty fascinating area of study.In this video, he just touches on the surface of some great insights that are in his book, Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our

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According to this article (blog post, or whatever it is):After spending a weekend with the Sony e-book reader, I found that the convenience of having so many books in a single, lightweight, slim device had me hooked, and its screen offers nearly print-like readability. But after about four hours of flipping through blocks of grey text I found myself feeling strangely melancholic. It couldn’t have

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Check out this picture.While it may seem pretty interesting, some of it isn't exactly true. That apes can learn sign-language signals doesn't mean they understand language. That some animals react to themselves in the mirror doesn't mean they are self-aware. That monkeys seem to "play" doesn't mean they have a sense of humor. A lot of unscientific assumptions here! I suggest reading the book

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According to the article:An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers reported...."A seer once told Kalau that if he does not take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child," a man called Madhusudan told the paper.Of course, in reality, he now can't have any children at all.

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According to this article:The Personal Genome Project has signed up 13,000 volunteers who will donate genetic material for the benefit of gene research worldwide. Information about the genetic material will also be posted online.Medical info on diseases on stuff... yeah, that's great. Actually, I'd be a bit more interested in the study of the correlation between personalities and interests and

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According to this article:Normally, our galaxy's magnetic field shields our solar system from this "galactic wind." But every 64 million years, the solar system's cyclical travels take it above the galactic plane."When we emerge out of the disk, we have less protection, so we become exposed to many more cosmic rays," Melott has said.The boost in cosmic-ray exposure may have a direct effect on

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I just can't decide which movie looks better... ??:-P

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According to this article, the CEO of Google is certain that YouTube will one day be profitable.Schmidt, who is currently the focus of the Federal Trade Commission over his role on the boards of both Apple and Google, would not comment directly on suggestions that YouTube was going to lose $400 million (£265m). However, the internet and advertising giant's CEO insisted that Google could turn

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According to this article:When people performed addition, they triggered the same patterns of brain activity that light up when they looked right. When they did subtraction, the left-looking brain patterns activated.Scientist suggest it might be because the areas in the brain we use for math were once used to processing visual spacial information.So all those people who close their eyes when

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According to the article:In a recent study, Bartolo Luque and Lucas Lacasa of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain have discovered a new pattern in primes that has surprisingly gone unnoticed until now. They found that the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of Benford’s law.At first the article title excited me, but this

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According to this article on CNN:Rand book sales are "going through the roof," said Yaron Brook, the president of the Ayn Rand Institute. According to Brook, "Atlas Shrugged," her most famous novel, has sold more copies in the first four months of 2009 than it did for all of 2008 -- and in 2008, it sold 200,000 copies. It's been in Amazon.com's top 50 for more than a month.Not bad for a 1,100-

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Ugh! Looks like we have to send in all our money to the government...

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Here's a short film created to advertise Philips' upcoming new 21:9 LCD TV (widescreen TVs are generally 16:9). Maybe I'll get one someday. Anyway, watch the film... the camera is the only thing that moves...

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Doctors found a fir tree in a patient's lung...Doctors first became suspicious when they noticed the patient's breath always smelled good and "Christmassy."

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I haven't tried it out yet, but this galactic physics simulator looks pretty cool! According to the site, you can:Smash moons into planets, create new stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Explore our solar system in 3D or destroy everything you've created with a super massive black hole. Tinker with your creation or sit back and watch the effects of gravity unfold. It's fun

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Looks like Flutter will replace Twitter soon...

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Somebody twittered this one too:Operator: 911 emergencies.Boy: Yeah I need some help.Operator: What’s the matter?Boy: With my math....Boy: You said if I need help to call somebody.Woman: I didn’t mean the police!

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Someone twittered this video... China scares me. :-(In China, eight parents and teachers who used hi-tech equipment to help children cheat in college entrance exams have been sent to prison.They were given sentences of six months to three years after being found guilty of obtaining state secrets.

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This is ... weird. But I like it.I'm not quite sure why I like it... perhaps because it's weird but not so weird I can't make some sense out of it. Or can I make sense out of it? Maybe I only think I can.Well, I have no idea. Probably could interpret the story many different ways. But this is from a short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum. I tried looking him up but couldn't find that much info

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According to this article:A 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube's vast library of music videos.Muziic, created by teen developer David Nelson, has built an iTunes-like interface on top of YouTube. The service enables users to stream YouTube's music to their PCs without fiddling with videos. Users can build playlists and organize songs in a way similar to

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Somebody twittered this...When Mr Saunders got out of his car, the policeman told him: "Laughing while driving a car can be an offence."The officer spent half an hour questioning his suspect before reluctantly allowing him to carry on his way.So don't be too happy, drivers!

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Really cool idea and execution of a stop motion animation...

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This is something I found in my thoughts... it's been bugging me throughout the day...I have a heard so much about how historic this day is, how meaningful and special it is to so many people. I'm finding myself a bit confused. Why is it special? What makes it more historical than any other presidential inauguration? I guess the answer is obvious, it has to do with skin color and the history

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This article seems to explain why a lot of people disagree with me even though I'm usually always right...You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others?Decades of research show people tend to go along with the majority view, even if that view is objectively incorrect. Now,

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Somebody twittered this, and it is indeed quite funny.The Star Wars trilogy summarized by someone who's never seen it...Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

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According to imdb.com, Ghostbusters 3 is set to come out 2010, though no director or actors are listed (and if they don't have the original cast members, it's probably not going to be that good no matter what they do). But the point is, it's announced, so they're either shooting it right now and being secretive, or they're not.Anyway, last week this blogged went up: Ghostspy. The blogger claims

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An interesting twist on the classic game... unfortunately it seems all the levels are identical. I got bored and stopped playing after level six. Still, it's a big novel, eh?

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The title above links to a video about an exploding whale... not that one that was purposefully blown up to get it off the beach, but one that exploded unexpectedly due to natural causes.Warning: Video shows whale guts and splattered blood. Lots of it. A whale exploded. Ew.

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According to this article:our skewed perception of hyper behavior post-sugar might be mostly in our heads....if you slip kids some sugar without them knowing it, it doesn’t have a hyperactivity effect in most children, even ones with ADHD.One study shows that parents can fall prey to the placebo effect, seeing their kids as more hyperactive when under the false impression that the kids have eaten

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According to this article:Young Americans just aren't watching TV like they used to.Put another way, the older you get, the more you watch, according to a report due out Thursday from Deloitte indicating that "millennials," the generation of ages 14-25, watch just 10.5 hours of TV a week.That compares with 15.1 hours for those belonging to Generation X (ages 26-42), 19.2 hours for baby boomers (

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According to this commentary by Clive Thompson, video games could use some more opportunities for players to torture other characters. Why? To learn about the consequences of course! I disagree. Thompson says:[Video games are] also extremely good at illustrating consequences: If you do X, then Z and L will happen; if you do Y instead, then C and Q result.I disagree with the premise that games

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He sure is good!

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In the future, will we be able to record what we see? Will we be able to see our visual thoughts? Will we be able to record our dreams at night, and watch them again when we're awake? Sounds too good to be true, in my opinion, but according to this article:A Japanese research team has successfully processed and displayed images directly from the human brain, they said in a study to be

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My closest public (which I'm working at right now... and blogging at the same time... shhhh, don't tell anyone) is being renovated and added to. The new half of the library is almost finished. Woohoo! But these cool library designs sure make this library look pathetic...Really kind of makes me wish I was an architect with a big budget...

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Here's an interesting Scientific American article (I really miss getting that magazine... someone buy me a subscription please):... what if you could be fooled into thinking that one of your hands belonged to someone else? Scientists at the University of Oxford recently incited this false perception through an illusion—and they found that when people felt dissociated from a limb, their brain

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And I thought our dog was stupid...I love to see this dog go through a maze made of soda cans.

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Yeah, I think I'll have to pass on this stupid looking thing...Then again, I think I'd love it! I could come up with a really cool dance!!

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According to the article:A US woman has been charged with drink-driving after she drove to a jail to test a suspected drink driver.I guess after years of testing drunkards she felt she was missing out?

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According to this wee article:WB is looking for ways to squeeze more out of Potter. According to one of our regular, reliable sources, they’re hoping to do it by digging deep into other J.K. Rowling work; specifically “The Tales of Beedle The Bard”. ...None of these [five] stories [within the book] seems to have any connection to the other, which ought to make it difficult for Warners to fit them

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It's actually very simple... you see...The psychologist, from the University of Calgary, has subsequently formed an equation for why people procrastinate, which began by studying 250 college students.The equation is U=EV/ID.The 'U' stands for utility, or the desire to complete a given task. It is equal to the product of E, the expectation of success, and V the value of completion, divided by the

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According to this article:A new model by a scientist has determined that the amount of dark matter in our Universe is 'just right' for life to emerge.Gee, how long did it take scientists to figure this out? Duh! If the amount of dark matter were wrong, we wouldn't be here. Might as well say "Scientists determine we do exist" or "Scientists determine we will live until we die."But, seriously,

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About anything? I'm trying to get my blog to be more popular by requesting participation, so... just... what do you think?

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Geez, why are lists so popular? Who keeps reading these things? I'm sick of looking through my Google Reader and seeing "Top 10 This" and "Best 10 That" ... and most lists are way too subjective anyway. I've never come across a list I agreed with. Stop blogging lists, people. You're annoying me.

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The "planners" of the show I'm the star of thought it would be really funny if they threw this article onto my show!The Truman Show delusion, or Truman Syndrome, has drawn attention in recent months, in the United States and Britain, as psychiatrists in both countries describe a small but growing number of psychotic patients who describe their lives as mirroring that of the main character in the

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Someone just showed me this game and I spent over an hour trying to pass it ... it's a really fun yet simple puzzle game. You won't be able to pass it, even though I did. Neener-neener.

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For some reason, using organic brain cells for computing seems creepy to me... self-aware computing, coming soon!!

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The Bach family was full of composers, but PDQ was an embarrassment!

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I'm afraid George Lucas has recently been frozen in carbonite . . .

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In my Blather blog, I recently mentioned that Pixar is one of the only animation studios that seems to deliver a solid story time and time again, while other studios don't seem to have such success.In this article Russell smith says:I have heard people who work in entertainment industries - record labels, cable-TV chains - plan new entertainment products. I have been privy to conversations about

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USB Popcorn Maker - Watch more free videosMmmmm... delicious... I could use one of these.

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I thought this was cool... a little slide-show illustrating of how the motions of our feet, arms, and hands can reveal our inner feelings.

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According to the article:A man said he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while at a Knoxville church.Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering he said he's endured from his injuries.I'm not sure it was the spirit of God that consumed ya there...

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This web thing is pretty cool... it allows you to put in a bunch of text, or an rss feed, and it creates the word map thingies... here's a wordle from the rss feed of my Blather blog:Cool, no?

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According to this article:humans more thoroughly inspect objects when their hands are near the object rather than farther away from it. They posit that this processing exists because humans need to be able to analyze objects near their hands, to figure out how to handle them or to provide protection against them....Not only do we see items differently when our hands are near them, we also process

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Of course you do!Someone posted this on a music forum; I thought it was hilarious...

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Here's where those creative juices come from:Yep, it's that simple!

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Here's an easy and quite relaxing music game... might just fall asleep while playing.

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This is a bit old... from June '07, but I just now saw it (because of Digg). I don't think I need to say much, just check it out... pretty darn cool, eh?As I said, it's from June '07, and this technology still isn't on my desktop, so there are obviously still things to work, no?

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Here's a big boulder made out of reportedly 5 million Lego pieces. It chases a guy playing Indiana Jones down a street before hitting a car. How exciting. It could have been worse. Someone could have been killed. Tsk tsk!

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According to this article:it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of

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Or at least a part of it...Words failed me. I stuttered as Prof Vincent Walsh turned off the speech centre of my brain for a few thousandths of a second to demonstrate the power of transcranial magnetic stimulation, a popular way to interfere with the most complex known object in the universe.Eh... don't get that near me please...

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According to this article:Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates....Age and education are factors in this divide, Park found. One-half of those who have never used e-mail are over 65, and 56 percent had no schooling beyond high school.That's a lot... buy computers people!

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That kind of looks like fun!

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Not really, obviously. Well, maybe they cause such things to you, but that's nothing an fMRI can prove with sloppy science... according to this article, some scientists concluded:“The two areas in the brain associated with anxiety and disgust—the amygdala and the insula—were especially active when men viewed ‘Republican.’ But all three labels also elicited some activity in the brain area

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A rare and strange cloud formation filmed over Japan...

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You will have seen this if you're a Digger...Why Mario Kart should be rated AO (Adults Only)Holy cow, the same thing almost happened to me... I better watch myself.

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This is old news, but I just learned about it tonight...Scientific American writes:If we watch a video of a person mouthing the word "ga," but have a synced voice-over of that person saying "ba," what we end up hearing, is a third variation that's never been said! That word is "da". And even though you now know it's an illusion—you will still, when you see the video, think you are hearing "da".

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According to Wired: Need a break from the working, walking, and standing required by the demanding and stressful life you lead?Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days.The bed-rest experiment, to take place in the Human Test Subject Facility of Johnson Space Center, is designed to allow scientists to study some of the effects of

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Came across this blog post today on a high school principal's blog (a principal keeping a blog is noteworthy in and of itself, I think). In the post the author writes:Educators and employers agree that creativity is increasingly important in U.S. workplaces, according to a recent report. Yet, the report suggests a disconnect exists between what survey respondents say they believe and how they

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