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Today, we are all French.
“I still recall with delight as a teen-ager making the earth-shaking discovery that many of the great “serious novelists,” classical and modern, were as entertaining and interesting as the crime-writers I already loved. But it took another decade of maturation to reverse the equation and understand that many of the crime writers I had decided to grow out of were still as interesting and entertaining as the “serious novelists” I now revered” – attributed to Reginald Hill
And that is my excuse for binging on a variety of crime novels. So there.
# 14 days agoThe Content Farm: Informative articles about every topic, written by people with a passing knowledge.. Hilarious.
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No wonder22 days ago by Henning Bertram
“At the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, regarded as one of the finest hospitals in the world, you can eat a Big Mac and have cardio bypass surgery within the same building.” (Big Mac’s in the Cleveland Clinic)
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“Fans in the crowd won’t be allowed to upload snippets of the day’s action to YouTube – or even, potentially, to post their snaps from inside the Olympic Village on Facebook. And a crack team of branding “police”, the Games organisers Locog have acknowledged, will be checking every bathroom in every Olympic venue – with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers’ logos even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets.” (Olympics 2012: branding ‘police’ to protect sponsors’ exclusive rights). Me, I am just so happy that I am living in the free world and not somewhere like, oh, North Korea.
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The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s. In addition to a wide spectrum of musical performances from around the world, it includes stories, jokes, sermons, personal narratives, interviews conducted by Lomax and his associates, and unique ambient artifacts captured in transit from radio broadcasts, sometimes inadvertently, when Alan left the tape machine running. Not a single piece of recorded sound in Lomax’s audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included.
Document Freedom Day. And TeX rules.
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England hooker Dylan Hartley has been handed an eight-week ban for biting the finger of Ireland’s Stephen Ferris. Why do they have what appears to be a male prostitute at a sports game anyway? Think of the children, please.
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Hmmm54 days ago by Henning Bertram
Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.
— Being ‘Born-Again’ Linked to More Brain Atrophy
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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave // Visit to the Warehouse of Soul-Crushing Sadness. Perhaps worth pondering when ordering that cheap, no-shipping item off the Internets. We don’t have to outsource stuff to China: China is in our midst. Also: The working poor.
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Chris Pirillos father is exposed to Windows 8. Hilarity ensues.
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I got to thinking about how books can re-create that lost paradise for me. There are a couple of ways it can still happen; identifying strongly with the main character, being brought into another world, imaginative or historical, that is just strange and convincing enough to make me wistful for it (the Avatar phenomenon), or simply immersion in a ripping good yarn
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Michael Geist: “As protests in Europe against ACTA have grown, skeptics have argued that most criticisms are based on misunderstandings or incorrect information about the treaty. This week, the European Parliament held its first public workshop on ACTA. I appeared on the lead panel and received ten minutes to demonstrate why the agreement raises major concerns on process, substance, and likely effectiveness.”
As the current center of left (soi-disant) Danish government basically rolled over on this issue, and the responsible (using this word lightly) minister basically just wants all critics to shut up and accept it all — I am seriously considering whether my association with the junior party of the current Danish goverment is not coming to an end. You know: one final straw after so many others.
You can play with Lytro pictures here. I have had (still have) a hard time wrapping my brain around it — but seeing it is believing, I guess: Yes, you can actually refocus those pictures. A-mazing.
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What a nice performance of that sweet song.
In the brilliant essay The Social Graph is Neither, Maciej Cegłowski end by ‘Now tell me one bit of original culture that’s ever come out of Facebook.’ But, as my friends tend to say: Read the whole thing.
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The news this morning...95 days ago by Henning Bertram
Studies found that pediatricians’ warnings about obesity may easily be forgotten by the parents of fat American children, that Swedish children who eat fish before the age of nine months are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, and that anemia would increase threefold among Malagasy forest children denied the opportunity to eat lemurs and fruit bats. Babies as young as eight months enjoy seeing bad puppets punished. Genome regulation was found to be altered in Russian orphans, and the armpit sweat of gonorrhean young Russian men smells putrid to young Russian women. Neuroscientists tested the brains of human subjects who can at will hallucinate colors where none exist. Evidence suggested that some criminals deemed psychopathic are in fact emotionally disturbed rather than emotionally detached. Wisconsin researchers found weaker connections between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala in the brains of psychopaths but could not explain what caused them. “We have a chicken and an egg,” said an experimental psychologist who was not involved in the study. “In a sense.”
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Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show: A Celebration of the Grand Priestess of the Music Industry: “Laced with profound imagery, Madonna’s halftime performance was a massive Illuminati ritual, one that was witnessed by billions of viewers. On this Superbowl “Day of Atonement”, Madonna, the High Priestess of the Illuminati industry, entered the Holy of Holies of America and delivered a 13 minutes sermon that was heard by all…but understood by few.”
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