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The one uncontrovertible fact of the modern condition, the foremost and utmost desire coursing about this roiling planet is the ravenous and insatiable public hunger for, among countless other topics:

Learned discourse on the state of Indian fashion
The inside dish on Indian celebrities
The mechanics of dubbing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets into Hindi
Where [...]

Day light savings raises the usual questions:
Where does the hour go?
Can we ever get it back?
If we do get it back in the Spring, then does it technically belong to Autumn?
Why not be like Arizona and say, “Screw this”, to the whole thing?
How could I still manage to show up an hour early to stadium [...]

From Slashdot comes an interesting article in the New York Times about using fMRI to market products. The story has the requisite proof of a new trend, three examples and an anecdote. They call it neuromarketing.
Just as an aside, this word is further proof that putting “neuro-” in front of just about anything [...]

I was playing with Amazon.com’s new search-within-books function. The best part of this function is that it does exactly what what you want it to, give you access to resources outside that possible with simple keyword search on title, author, subject and the like.
A search for just the name “Borges” turned up a number [...]

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From my very own Amazon.com sidebar comes news of this limited edition run of Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Quicksilver.

The specs on this thing are pretty sweet:

With QUICKSILVER: The Deluxe Limited Edition, William Morrow presents the first limited edition ever published of Neal Stephenson’s work. Limited to a single edition [...]

Mother Jones Magazine has released their list of the Top 10 Activist Campuses. They put Berkeley 9th, behind the California Community Colleges of all things.
Presumably such a low ranking will get some people riled up. Berkeley has a reputation as this special, protest haven. There is a small percentage of [...]

Glenn Reynolds points to a report from the UK as evidence that more gun control leads to more gun crimes. His contention appears to be that gun crimes, especially as a percentage of all violent crime, are on the rise. The facts of the article don’t seem to support his argument.
Police and [...]

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