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Monster Mash

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:55:37 -0700

Get down and dirty with Freaky Frankie and friends. :-P~~

Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? [Slide Show]: Scientific American

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:52:15 -0700

Zombies and mind control: Not just for horror movies!

Frozen spud fired from potato cannon almost hits target : Latest Local News : The Buffalo News

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:11:25 -0700

Beware flying frozen potatoes fired from suspcious-looking vehicles!

[Note to Self: Put "Potato Cannon on Christmas wishlist. Tired of accidentally tasering self."]

Hes leading Facebook revolt - CharlotteObserver.com

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:11:10 -0700

"Nearly a million and a half angry Facebook users are protesting recent changes to the Web site. The leader of the furious online mob? A smiling eighth-grader from Apex who wears his baseball cap backwards and likes to play FarmVille."

Cute story. Power to the people! Ha-ha.

Eyeball matrioshke - Boing Boing

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:10:02 -0700

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33486362/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:06:34 -0700

Yay! Someone telling it like it really is. In your face, Facebook! Your new changes suck!! What were you smoking when you conceived of this steaming pile of stupidity?

And your public relations person stating in a Technology News article that dissenters are a "vocal minority" can cram that bald-face lie where it came from: someplace dark and smelly.

Is this haunting picture proof that chimps really DO grieve? | Mail Online

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:06:16 -0700

I'm typing this while reclining in bed with my cat resting on my chest. She's not as social or intellectually complex as a chimp by any means, but she's every bit capable of having "higher emotions" (especially when she hears a can of food being opened).

It's no secret (at least to the ordinary observer ~ perhaps to some arrogant scientists, maybe) that animals possess much more emotion and understanding than we give them credit for. Animals grieve all the time for lost loved ones. I'm surprised this is even considered "news." Are we really that stupid as a species ourselves that we find this to be some kind of surprising concept despite millenia of witnessing animals' complex social behaviors?

(Cliff's Notes version of this post: DUH!)

borderlines reviews - StumbleUpon

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:58:49 -0700

DEAD ON. Makes me kinda glad I've not been around so much to miss all the whining about the latest version. Unlike Facebook, which is steadily going farther down the path of its own interests and not those of its users, at least SU is trying to do something to respond to feedback and appease us old-schoolers who were here "before" and know what it was like before all the new users came. You can't miss what you never had, but many of those of us who did have it DO miss it.

http://caile-girl.stumbleupon.com/review/4062271/

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:30 -0700

I truly believe certain depressives sense a peculiar, underlying realm to the universe that "regular people" cannot quite fathom. I believe these depressives feel things so utterly deeply they cannot express them in words, but instead internalize them.

There is such inexplicable beauty they see and feel all around them and it is so intensely moving, like an undercurrent that carries their spirits. At times, such beauty renders them speechless and motionless because it completely overwhelms them.

But it is like being in a glass box. And just outside the box, you see the wind gently blowing the petals of a breathtakingly fragile yet defiant flower, as well as the trees and grasses rustling as the uplifting breeze passes by. You see with fierce intensity just how lovely is the sun beaming on the shimmering surface of the water, showering the earth with its life-giving light and warmth.

But this wind, this light, this LIFE ~ you cannot be a part of it, or truly feel the wind in your hair, or the sun on your face ~ because you're in the glass box. You're trapped with no way out. You know the wind and the sun and warmth and beauty are all around you because you see them with such depth and appreciation, but you cannot feel them. You see ALL of it all the more intensely ~ *because* you cannot be a part of it.

This is the tragedy that leads to such desolation. You throw yourself against the unyielding box, devoid of warmth or light or companionship, with the desperate hope of breaking free so you can immerse yourself in this achingly beautiful world you see all around you. Yet you utterly despair... because your efforts are in vain.

~elise caile~
(c) 2007

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