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Jan 6, 2008 8:44pm
The Love Mattress offers partners a simple yet effective position for embracing. This mattress allows you to hug your loved one intimately without any wrist or arm weakness. The assembled mattress has the same dimensions as other mattresses, with the added advantage that you can make a gap between joined parts. Your arm and shoulder can occupy the gaps when you are lying on your side. In other lying styles, you can easily find your most comfortable position. For example, if you are lying on your tummy, your foot can project comfortably into the mattress. Anatomical research supports the claim that The Love Mattress provides greater comfort than existing mattresses. (via red dot online: design concept - winners 2006) The Love Mattress offers partners a simple yet effective position for embracing. This mattress allows you to hug your loved one intimately without any wrist or arm weakness. The assembled mattress has the same dimensions as other mattresses, with the added advantage that you can make a gap between joined parts. Your arm and shoulder can occupy the gaps when you are lying on your side. In other lying styles, you can easily find your most comfortable position. For example, if you are lying on your tummy, your foot can project comfortably into the mattress. Anatomical research supports the claim that The Love Mattress provides greater comfort than existing mattresses. (via red dot online: design concept - winners 2006)
Jan 6, 2008 8:39pm
A Tribute to Gore (via )
Jan 6, 2008 8:21pm
NASA - A Perfect Storm Scientists who study dust storms have long known that Saharan dust can travel across the Atlantic to the Americas. Asian dust, however, must travel much farther to reach the same destination. In April 2001, researchers watched with surprise as dust from an Asian storm crossed the Pacific reaching as far east as the Great Lakes and even Maryland. 

NASA -
A Perfect Storm

Scientists who study dust storms have long known that Saharan dust can travel across the Atlantic to the Americas. Asian dust, however, must travel much farther to reach the same destination. In April 2001, researchers watched with surprise as dust from an Asian storm crossed the Pacific reaching as far east as the Great Lakes and even Maryland. 
Jan 6, 2008 6:47pm
“ Neither the Islamic outrage against Bishop Nazir Ali’s observation nor the precipitate retreat of the nation’s cultural elite before their wrath should come as a surprise. Anybody could have predicted that. But in abandoning any pretense of leadership the Great and the Good have left the direction of events up for grabs. They’ve gone and hidden among their bottles of chardonnay and musty furniture. This little squall around the Bishop of Rochester is of no consequence. What’s really significant is the possibility there is no one left who is bold enough to man the tiller. ” - The Belmont Club: Muslims call for ‘no-go’ CoE bishop to resign
Jan 5, 2008 10:09pm
“ Just like anti-Semitism, so, too is anti-Americanism antonymous. Everything and its opposite pertains: too religious, too secular; too idealistic, too materialistic; too elitist, too populist; too prudish, too pornographic; too individualistic, too conformist; too anarchic, too controlling; too obsessed with history, not having any history; too concerned with culture, not having any culture; too dominated by women, too controlling of women. America, in the view of some Europeans, is so obsessed with freedom and individualism that this obsession impedes genuine individuality and creates what one conservative German critic of the United States tellingly labeled ‘freedom Bolshevism”…. In short, the motto is clear: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. (p. 24.) — FROM Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in Romania, and raised during the 1960s in Vienna and America ” - America Derangement Syndrome — or, yes, you can call them unpatriotic « Bookworm Room
Jan 5, 2008 9:33pm
Oops! Power Line: Clinton vs. Obama; But Which Clinton? Oops! Power Line: Clinton vs. Obama; But Which Clinton?
Jan 5, 2008 10:17am
“ I note, too, that the Ontario Federation of Labour is supporting the Canadian Islamic Congress’s case. As Terry Downey, executive supremo of the OFL, primly explains, “There is proper conduct that everyone has to follow”—and his union clearly feels my article is way beyond the bounds of that “proper conduct.” Don’t ask me why. I don’t pretend to understand the peculiar psychological impulses that would lead the OFL to throw its lot in with Dr. Mohamed El masry and the CIC. Except that there seems to be some kinky kind of competition on the Western left to be, metaphorically speaking, Islam’s lead prison bitch. ” - Here’s what offends this writer | Macleans.ca - Columnists
Jan 5, 2008 10:16am
“ Nonetheless, even in this craven environment, Canada’s “human rights commissions” are uniquely inimical to the marketplace of ideas. In its 30 years of existence, no complaint brought to the federal HRC under Section XIII has been settled in favour of the defendant. A court where the rulings only go one way is the very definition of a show trial. These institutions should be a source of shame to Canadians. ” - Here’s what offends this writer | Macleans.ca - Columnists
Jan 5, 2008 10:14am
“ I’m interested to know what precisely is the of fence? Are Mullah Krekar’s words themselves Islamophobic? Or do they only become so when I quote them? The complainants want a world in which a Norwegian imam can make statements in a Norwegian newspaper but if a Canadian columnist reprints them in a Canadian publication it’s a “hate crime.” It’s striking to examine the Canadian Islamic Congress’s complaints and see how many of their objections are to facts, statistics, quotations—not to their accuracy but merely to the quoting thereof. But, of course, they’ve picked the correct forum: before the human rights commissions, truth is no defence. ” - Here’s what offends this writer | Macleans.ca - Columnists
Jan 5, 2008 9:17am
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Jan 5, 2008 9:13am
Being able to read other people’s eyes is a very useful skill. It will let you know if someone is lying, how interested someone is with what you are saying, and the type of thought that a person is having. Understanding eye movements can even be quite profitable, especially when playing poker or selling things. Professional poker players are especially keen at reading other’s eyes and many wear sunglasses so as not to reveal anything about their own cards. Like most behavior your eyes follow predictable patterns, so here is the rundown. (via Your Eyes Don’t Lie - Reading Thoughts By Eye Movements | Mind Control Techniques, Covert Hypnosis, and Persuasion) Being able to read other people’s eyes is a very useful skill. It will let you know if someone is lying, how interested someone is with what you are saying, and the type of thought that a person is having. Understanding eye movements can even be quite profitable, especially when playing poker or selling things. Professional poker players are especially keen at reading other’s eyes and many wear sunglasses so as not to reveal anything about their own cards. Like most behavior your eyes follow predictable patterns, so here is the rundown. (via Your Eyes Don’t Lie - Reading Thoughts By Eye Movements | Mind Control Techniques, Covert Hypnosis, and Persuasion)
Jan 4, 2008 8:03pm
The General’s Ghost The General’s Ghost
Jan 4, 2008 4:36pm
“ With all of the “me-too” ideas chasing Internet concepts, one can easily make the argument for a crash in 2008. But deeper than the dot com blow up of 2000 to 2002? During those three years, I tracked more than 27,300 layoffs in Washington’s tech sector as companies such as HomeGrocer, Terabeam, Mercata, FreeInternet, Vitessa, Point.com and dozens of others burned through tens of millions of venture capital dollars. Could we see that again here? ” - Linden’s Web 2.0 doomsday prediction
Jan 4, 2008 3:28pm

Things that disappear

From a Sarajevo War Survivor:
Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war - death of parents andfriends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks.

1. Stockpiling helps. but you never no how long trouble will last, so locate near renewable food sources.
2. Living near a well with a manual pump is like being in Eden.
3. After awhile, even gold can lose its luster. But there is no luxury in war quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold’s.
4. If you had to go without one utility, lose electricity - it’s the easiest to do without (unless you’re in a very nice climate with no need for heat.)
5. Canned foods are awesome, especially if their contents are tasty without  heating. One of the best things to stockpile is canned gravy - it makes a lot of the dry unappetizing things you find to eat in war somewhat edible. Only needs enough heat to “warm”, not to cook. It’s cheap too, especially if you buy it in bulk.
6. Bring some books - escapist ones like romance or mysteries become more valuable as the war continues. Sure, it’s great to have a lot of survival guides, but you’ll figure most of that out on your own anyway - trust me, you’ll have a lot of time on your hands.
7. The feeling that you’re human can fade pretty fast. I can’t tell you how many people I knew who would have traded a much needed meal for just a little bit of   toothpaste, rouge, soap or cologne. Not much point in fighting if you have to  lose your humanity. These things are morale-builders like nothing else.
8. Slow burning candles and matches, matches, matches….

100 Items to Disappear First

Jan 4, 2008 2:59pm

How we work

We’re interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here’s a list of some stories and habits. Not sure it is actually useful for anything. Do any patterns emerge across stories, other than the obvious stories of super-focus, super-dedication?

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