Thursday, July 7

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness: "I have suffered depression for years. I have been to five 'shrinks', been placed on three different medications (not at the same time, of course) to treat the depression and all to no effect. I have read other books on depression but this one is the only one that is actually making a noticeable and positive change in my life. Simply put, the approach works."

Tuesday, July 5

How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD - Media - GOOD

How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD - Media - GOOD: "'Editors are going to think I'm a liability now. What kind of *** pussy cries and pukes about getting almost hurt or having to watch bad things happen to other people?'

'Dude,' she said. 'Marines.'"

Sunday, July 3

Some Approaches to the Question of Chewing Gum Litter

Some Approaches to the Question of Chewing Gum Litter: "Gum can be found everywhere, but a more attentive examination reveals that it reaches maximum density in the vicinity of the most frequented bars: the chewer who is headed there is forced to spit out to free his mouth. As a result, the stranger, not familiar with the city, could find these places following the direction of the more thickly massed gum blobs, in the same way as sharks find their wounded prey by swimming in the direction of increasing concentrations of blood…"

Google contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A) | Digital Media - CNET News

Google contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A) | Digital Media - CNET News: "'The ubiquitous connectivity profoundly influences how we use our computers. We're 10 years down the road--we're just in the middle of the transition. Essentially, the hegemony of the PC is over. Now the center of every user's world will be in a network repository projected into many different devices. How those ecologies interact and work out, that's the story of the next 5, 10 years.'"

Andy Herzfeld 2005