Year: 2006
also whitens teeth and scares away slugs
The spammer who wanted me to buy his $177 “Harmony Chip” that fixes everything has responded to my post about his spam.
DANGER BEES
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VIDEO GAMING
Austro-Hungarian Debris
Let’s Get rid of those whiny precious aristocratic post-literate disengaged “hipster” assholes and bring back Dada.
THE TIME IS NOW. PICK UP A BRICK AND FOLLOW ME.
pogue
The Pogues are touring with Shane.
I just got two tickets for one of the L.A. shows. They’s goin fast.
The Cuteness Unto Death
Reverse engineer your brain
More than 40 years ago, my father wrote a short story called “Dr. Pettigott’s Face.” The eponymous doctor of the story has a theory that pushing the face into happy expressions will make people happy, and has constructed a machine to do this. I remember that for years he had a correspondence with some neuro researcher who was interested in facial expressions because the guy liked the story so much. The title has been a shorthand in our family for people trying to reverse engineer things in weird ways.
The polyvagal theory and some of its implications suggest that there may be a grain of truth in this. The connections between emotion and facial expression are very tight and it’s possible that it “goes both ways”. This story from the LA Times on Sunday is fascinating:
Winners.
I’ve never been a sports fan, but I’m a huge fan of the revolution in women’s sports in the U.S. Title IX went in about when I was in junior high school, and the result has been a huge increase in the respect, encouragement, and resources girls get in the athletic world growing up. Not just women’s sports, but women crashing men’s sports.
The effect on our culture is huge.
I have a special place in my heart for women auto racers, because I am a car nut and because it’s a boy’s club where women can excel. What’s required is endurance, precision, and courage.
GO DANICA!
Also, inexpicable picture of Danica having a toy car race apparently supervised by Madeline Albright on FOX News. ?
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