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ADDICTED TO LOVE? Futurepundit says a pill is on the way. "I expect the development of drugs and other treatments that cause people to fall in and out of love and to recover more easily from lost love.Some people will choose to immunize themselves from love by using treatments that prevent the love process from developing in the first place."

ONE LESS REASON TO BUY A NEW IPOD: AppleInsider | iPod photo update to deliver new transitions, Tetris. "Sources also say the software update will pack a color version of the popular

arcade game tetris. Users will be able to use the iPod photo's click-wheel to move the tetris blocks horizontally while the iPod click-button performs block rotation." Numbs my brain, what about yours?

WHEN 'NON' DOES NOT MEAN 'NON':David Warren on the EU vote in France. "The aspiration to "streamline" a society from above -- which means in practice micro-managing the myriad human lives from a great height -- is alive and well far beyond Europe. The Americans get a taste of it in the power of their courts to re-interpret their Constitution, and overrule Congress."

JOHN MARTZ AT THE BRILLIANT John MartzDrawn! The Illustration Blog reports, "This year's recipient of the Reuben Award for 2004 Cartoonist of the Year was Pat Brady, the creator of Rose is Rose, pictured here. The legendary Gahan Wilson took home the Milton Caniff Award for lifetime achievement." I can live without Rose but recognition for Wilson is long overdue.

SWISS CHOCOLATE MOVIES FOR THE MASSES. The Sound of Music is still alive with the The New York Times > Movies > sound of money 40 years later even though "Pauline Kael, who would become the reigning film critic of her era, denounced it as 'the sugar-coated lie that people seem to want to eat.' "

THE STORY OF THE SONOGRAM OF Led Zeppelin IV "If there's a formula for the timeless hit record, this is IT."

SCIENCE, THE DANGEROUS JOB. "Since January of 2004, more than twenty scientists are known to have died in accidents, under suspicious circumstances, or been murdered."

PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO WATCH PEOPLE...

ON THE OTHER HAND, SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE WATCHED: Lest they drive 2,500 needles into their legs.

IS NOTHING SACRED?: "For centuries, people have been intrigued by the number 666, the "number of the beast" from the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.

Now, the legendary number is getting a fresh look, as researchers are re-examining evidence the number may actually be 616."

I CAME OUT THE OTHER SIDE AS LORD BYRON.
Which Major Romantic Poet Would You Be (if You Were a Major Romantic Poet)?
[Via what has become, arguably the best poetry page -- Silliman's Blog]

THE 14 STEP Lifecycle of Bloggers.

PUTTING, SLOWLY, The Harvard Classics Online in downloadable volumes.

STEVE PAVLINA TELLS YOU How to Give Up Coffee, but why would you want to? (I love the fact that his Google Ads serve up links to fine teas and coffees. Who said Google is without automated irony?)

AS IF TO UNDERSCORE THAT, GOOGLE HAS DECLARED The Summer of Code. "This Summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow...Use them for the greater good of Open Source Software and computer science! " Yes, kids, don't let a second go by without doing something. Why should your summers be free and easy when you could be coding like the rest of Google's swarm?

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Posted by Vanderleun at March 31, 2005 7:13 AM | TrackBack