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Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 
(unknown author) via Slashdot on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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"A study by Agneta Grimby at the University of Goteborg found that over 80 percent of elderly people experience hallucinations associated with their dead partner one month after bereavement, as if their perception had yet to catch up with the knowledge of their beloved's passing. It's not unusual for people who have lost a partner to clearly see or hear the per
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Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal
Scott Knaster via Google Mac Blog on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
By David Besbris, Engineering DirectorThe Google Calendar team is proud to announce the public release of our support for the CalDAV protocol. You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you're offline, sync almost
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How To File A Lawsuit [Lawsuits]
Sam Glover via Consumerist on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Consumerist empowers consumers to take on bad companies, but sometimes even the negative PR that Consumerist can bring to bear is not enough to persuade companies to behave. When that happens, you...
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Collect everything, indiscriminately
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
If you're young, know nothing, and are trying to understand the world, here's some good advice:
Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You're five years old. Don't presume too much to know what's important and what isn't. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create
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Oldest Ever Lolcat Found *gasp* (Iz From Teh 1905)
tofuburger via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pict on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
What’s Delaying My Dinner?
This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat pictu
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Bon-bons, s'il vous plaît
(unknown author) via Cute Overload on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Shared by Jordan T-H
This is one of those rare instances of something being so cute it's creepy. Look into its eyes. Behold the inky blackness.
Pleeeeeease, pass moi zuh bon-bons.
I need zem.
I need zem very, very, very moshe. [chomps own paw in distress]
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Brian Eno believes in singing
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Brian Eno believes that singing is the key to a good life.
Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. And then there are what I would call "civilizational benefits." When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a ca
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Optima Prime T-Shirt, Font Transformed [Clothing]
Mark Wilson via Gizmodo on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Fact: Optimus Prime would be a badass no matter what he transformed from or to. It's the soul of a Transformer that makes him great. Optimus Prime could save the world if he assembled from macaroni, puff paints, stringed popcorn or used baby diapers
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Tarpipe Publishes Updates, Content to Social Sites via Email [Webapps]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Web site Tarpipe streamlines your updates to various social web sites, creating simple or complex workflows to update several buckets in one fell swoop. Let's say you want to do something simple like upload a new picture to Flickr and then tweet about it
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Counting all the blades of grass in Ireland
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
The impressiveness of the magnetic hard drive:
The dimensions of the head are impressive. With a width of less than a hundred nanometers and a thickness of about ten, it flies above the platter at a speed of up to 15,000 RPM, at a height that's the equivalent of 40 atoms. If you start multip
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Artist's Uranium-Glass Kits Let You Play God, Create New Universes [Quantum]
Kit Eaton via Gizmodo on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
The "many worlds interpretation", parallel universes, the Trousers of Time: call it what you will, but quantum theory has some surprising ideas about what happens after a quantum event, which artist Jonathan Keats is exploring in this new "toy". It
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I Was A Pre-Teen Christian Supercomputer!
John Brownlee via Boing Boing Gadgets on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Let me tell you a little bit about Colby.
Ever since I was ten, Colby has been a part of me, like a small, sentient circuit board lodged in my brain. He wasn't always like this. When I first met him, he w
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Wikiscanner Creator Profiled in NYT
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Here's a snip from Virginia Heffernan's New York Times profile of Virgil Griffith, the creator of Wikiscanner, whom Pesco and I had the pleasure of meeting a few weeks ago at the
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Davide Zucco (aka Rekal) : The A's To Our Q's
(unknown author) via Wooster Collective on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
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I like the second work a lot.
(click to enlarge)
Age: 27
Hometown: a little city in the middle of the mountain called Belluno. North Ea
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'tis a silly place
wil@wilwheaton.net (Wil Wheato via WWdN: In Exile on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
If you live in that part of the Venn Diagram where Star Trek and Monty Python overlap, (as I do) I suspect you will be glad you watched this.
(epic thank
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Surprised by Brains
Eliezer Yudkowsky via Overcoming Bias on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
Followup to: Life's Story Continues
Imagine two agents who've never seen an intelligence -
including, somehow, themselves - but who've seen the rest of the
universe up until now, arguing about what these newfangled "humans"
with their "language" might be able
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Obama might get rid of daylight saving time
(unknown author) via Boing Boing on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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I don't think I'd mind this a bit.
President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time in the United States to conserves energy.
Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof th
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New Report: CIA lied about missionary plane shot down over Peru
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
The CIA Inspector General John Helgerson just issued a damning report that says the CIA lied about and covered up its involvement in a drug interception program with the Peruvian Airport. In 2001 the Peruvian Air Force used information the CIA gave them t
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In Canada, the supreme court has ruled that ... [Canada]
(unknown author) via Consumerist on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
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I've always thought you should have to pay the price of fuel to fly you, plus some small premium.
In Canada, the supreme court has ruled that obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada. [
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