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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:39:41 -0700

The Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning Free

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:03:08 -0700

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:55:06 -0700

GameSetWatch - COLUMN: The Aberrant Gamer - Completion Anxiety Disorder

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:27:36 -0700

"Don't we have relationships with some of our games? Think about it -- it begins with attraction, when you see an appealing description, a good preview, a sexy trailer. Then comes the skepticism, the scrutiny of the developer's previous efforts, the steeling yourself for disappointment. The swapping gossip with your gamer buddies after the first "date," the sense of careful, hesitant joy as you start to get drawn in. At first, the new game was all you could think about."

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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:03:35 -0700

"Does quicksave eliminate the possibility of the emotional spectrum of regret?"

Rock Star-Turned-Physicist Trades Keyboard for Atom Smasher

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:07:50 -0800

"Because what scientists really want to do is see something that they don't understand. They don't really want theorists to predict something and then they go and find it. Really what they want is to be confused."

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders - Listverse

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:35:19 -0700

From the page: "Paris syndrome is a condition exclusive to Japanese tourists and nationals, which causes them to have a mental breakdown while in the famous city.

The Japanese embassy has a 24hr hotline for tourists suffering for severe culture shock, and can provide emergency hospital treatment if necessary."

Robot People Magazine

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:18:03 -0700

"I was walking through a supermarket a few days after my HL2 marathon and I saw a bunch of first-aid kits on the floor. Someone had knocked them over by accident I guess. My first reaction though was 'oh shit! A bunch of medikits. Something fucking tough must be coming up soon!'It really scared me."

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=75631972-E7F2-99DF-3FF928A23B2CCBCD&chanID=sa003&ec=su_psych1

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:46:55 -0700

"Sacktor, along with Reut Shema and Yadin Dudai, neurologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, set out to determine what would happen if they blocked the enzyme at different intervals after a rat performed a learning task, in this case the recollection of eating an unappetizing meal. Their findings, published in this week's Science: they could erase those memories any time after a rat learned to avoid the unsavory snack by injecting a PKMgama inhibitor called ZIP into a midbrain region, the insular cortex (or insula), home of the taste-processing gustatory cortex."

How I failed the Turing test | BlogCadre

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:58:00 -0700

"Some time around March, I started receiving a number of random instant messages from people I've never met before. As I talked to more and more of these folks, I began to discover something really disturbing about myself:

I consistently fail to be perceived as human."