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"The researchers concluded sadness can trigger a chain of emotions leading to extravagant tendencies. Sadness leads people to become more focused on themselves, causing the person to feel that they and their possessions are worth little."

"If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space."

"From ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York."

"GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm"

"So, let me introduce you to him, and his greatest hack. I'll warn you right up front that it's mind numbing. By the way, everything I'm going to tell you is true and verifiable down at your local library."

"Jeffrey Shallit compiled an excellent set of links commemorating the 70th birthday of this legendary figure..."

"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world."

"The United States is so broke, its people at every level from the Federal Reserve on down don't know whether to shit or go blind."

"Hides/Shows ads in Gmail, widens email body, removes beta from Gmail logo (disabled by default), & gives buttons a better look."

"A documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects. Aspartame is a toxic food that came into the world as an investment By Donald Rumsfeld..."

"This suggests that cross-situational learning may go forward non-strategically and automatically, steadily building a reliable lexicon."

"In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies."

"I think "don't talk to strangers" is just about the worst possible advice you can give a child."

Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin plays and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched.

"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation."