Happy Days Are Here Again!
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“ Habits are formed when the memory associates specific actions with specific places or moods,” said Dr. Wood, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke. “If you regularly eat chips while sitting on the couch, after a while, seeing the couch will automatically prompt you to reach for the Doritos. These associations are sometimes so strong that you have to replace the couch with a wooden chair for a diet to succeed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13habit.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business
Michelle Obama in Delaware
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a freeware widget for the Rijksmuseum
cool!
“ Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama
Atom - The Clash of the Titans - Part 1
A three-part BBC series. Fascinating!
Luis Buñuel - French documentary
John Lennons Jukebox
“ For heaven’s sake: Find someone, ONE person, with a unique vision. Lock them in a room with some programmers and a graphic designer. Twenty people, tops. Change the world. Quit re-hashing the same old bullshit and telling me it’s new, exciting, or in any way innovative. Be ready to fail, many times, but for love of all that is holy take a stand on something.
http://stevenf.com/2007/11/try_again.php
“ The New York Times’ Style section has nothing to do with style but everything with money!
John D. Laird
