It’s a cool, damp Sunday. Up the street from me, my neighbours found this in their pool: I guess that’s one way to clean an SUV.
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October 2008
A couple of days ago I wrote briefly about this story, which concerns scientists finding a way to erase certain memories in mice. The idea, I suppose, is that eventually we’ll be able to erase our disagreeable memories and convince ourselves everything is peaches and cream. (Actually, I don’t really like peaches and cream, so [...]
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At this moment, the world is obsessed with the perceived financial calamity that keeps sending everything down, down, down … except, perhaps, consumer prices. There’s hand wringing, hair rending, tears a plenty and profanities shouted from rooftops. As a Simple Plan song (called Untitled) says, “How could this happen to me?” Actually, it’s happening to [...]
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I visited Nick Carr’s blog Roughtype and discovered that the Charlie Kaufman scripted movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is moving from the drama category into documentary. Carr’s post Remembering to forget is worth a read: “Slowly but surely, scientists are getting closer to developing a drug that will allow people to eliminate unpleasant [...]
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In reading Seth Godin‘s latest book, Tribes, I came across this and thought it was worth posting: Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. I wonder how many people take vacations to get somewhere as opposed to get away from [...]
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