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Autism speaking

I'd urge you watch this video of an autistic woman demonstrating her private language for interacting with the world and then 'translating it' into our language. [youtube]JnylM1hI2jc[/youtube] She is very eloquent in both. You can support research into the understanding the causes and helping

prod

http://www.peoplesrepublicofdis.co.uk/ evidence that my dancing is no worse than that of my friends.. (that's why they are my friends) [youtube]u0dp3OvAKJo[/youtube]

spiders on drugs

when spiders are fed drugs they tend to build bizzare webs, the national film board of canada has some informative video footage [gvid]sHzdsFiBbFc[/gvid] the original images can be found here here, for example are the webs on spiders on caffeine http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm

I, Vampire

At five o'clock this morning, on the shelves of the Flying Pig hostel I found another book in the Women's Press Science Fiction series. Just when I thought you couldn't get any weirder than Woman on the Edge of Time comes I, Vampire -

This is your captain

I was fairly early for my flight back from Amsterdam today so I chose to sit in seat 1A. Which meant I got to sit next to a pilot catching a lift back to London. Didn't really have much to say to him but until he got to

Apocalyptica, Volume 1

http://en.gnomz.com/14681...a-volume-i.html Superb comic of the day at the english language site of Gnomz.com. (Click post title for direct link)

Corporate

Whilst packing up surfeit of possessions prior to moving back to yuppie-duppie loft appartment in it's gated community, I watched a few bits of excellent anti-capitalist propaganda. And naturally they are completely free! The Corporation is a multi multi award winning docco about the history of corporations and

Divine Interventions

http://www.divine-interventions.com/ "What the hell is that?" I hear you cry. That, best beloved, is the Baby Jesus butt plug available from those goodly people at Divine Interventions. Only $31.00 and it glows in the dark. Miraculous. And that's just the beginning of

animal is an energy

http://www.eurekalert.org...s-wal011007.php Dr. Chris Carbone and colleagues from the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London reason on energy grounds that mammalian top carnivores aren't likely to be any bigger than a one ton bear. The authors provide a model of carnivore energetics in

books booked

on a related note, i think that this year i'm going to be using zotero to keep track of all the books I read. For the last three years, I've nerdishly noted when I started and finished each book I read and how long they were.

metal fatigue

Call me stupid but I've only just discovered that when it comes to naming heavy metal bands, people lack a little imagination. Not least me. In my first nanowrimo in nov 2004, there was a small event at Earl's Court. The main character was getting shot

the cognitive neuroscience of ghosts

You may have laughed at my cognitive neuropsychology of zombies. At least I hope you did because that was the main intention of it. But it seems that ghosts and hauntings are taken more seriously by psychologists. But I have just been updating my google calendar of Cognitive Science Talks

Irony research..

1. Eric Schwitzgebel has meticulously collected data to show that books about Ethics get stolen more regularly than other books in the philosophy section. via cog daily 2. Research reported in the New York Times suggests that pessimists die earlier than optimists. The latest in a series of similar findings

words made of stuff

Just upgraded to new version of b2evolution blogging software and in the process, I picked up a new toy that lets me put youtube finds on the page. Like this? [youtube]DbIRy5MJJQY[/youtube] Like it?

indexed

http://indexed.blogspot.com/

Woman on the Edge of Time

And staying with books. Our first bookgroup choice this year is Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Just got the book and read the back cover.. any book with a highly approving nod from Pynchon is sure to be good (previously that's how i discovered

Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/ Bibliographies just got (even) easier. I have been experimenting with a new citation management tool for Firefox. Zotero It allows you to gather bibliographic information directly from library webpages. And stores them in a handy pop-up database to which you can add your own annotations, links

calvink

A ver ver ver good friend just got tattooed at Living Image in Greenwich by Biko. He is a lovely young chap just starting out as a tattoo artist in his own right. He did a great job of interpreting and realizing my friends design and was infectiously enthusiastic about

Resolution not revolution

I love new years resolutions.. and find that the secret is to make resolutions that you can actually keep rather than choosing things that rely on stupidly optimistic wishful thinking or radical changes to your lifestyle. This year, in the horribly misguided belief that it will make me look cool,

Seahorse Linguini

mind control

sig by Jobst of Moravia ---this sentence is the thought you are thinking right now alas I can't reproduce his turtle too

Record your own Christmas message.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/12/22/32928/190 Brian FlemmingRational Response Squadchallenging YouTubersThe God Who Wasn't There So far over 350 people have been willing to exchange their soul for a free DVD. Some of these videos are quite clever, though most simply contain the plain

Gillespie

http://onemonkey.org/history/010326.html For the last six years this cheeky monkey has remained nameless. He has lived with me since some time in the year 2000 and yet I had never got around to giving him a name. He was unforthcoming with any suggestions of his own

web

and that is not all.. I think this little incident has inspired me to add a new category to my posts on this internet diary.. I had in the past treated this 'blog' in pretty much that fashion, as a diary that just happened to be online. A

why wikipedia is wicked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Goose Given that criticism is always easier than praise (is the second law of thermodynamics? I'm not too sure) it is inevitable that lots of people only ever see the problems with Wikipedia.. That because anyone can edit anything then it