Data and the BSOD

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OPEN Act - alternative to SOPA and PROTECT IP

Twitter, Facebook, and Google endorse alternate online piracy bill

Gautham Nagesh for The Hill - Eight of the largest Web companies have endorsed an online piracy bill offered by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP.

The OPEN Act would direct online patent infringement claims against foreign websites to the International Trade Commission, which would be authorized to order online ad networks and payment processors to sever ties with the rogue foreign sites.

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How to lose weight by only...

How to lose weight by only lifting a finger. Continuing our Week After New Year's diettip hotline, we have found the most appealing weight-loss tactic of all time. One that involves very little moving. Writing for 15 minutes about important values, like religion, music, or relationships, caused women to lose more weight over the next few months than those who did no writing at all, found research published in Pyschological Science. Participants kept these values diaries lost an average of 3.41 pounds, compared to the 2.76 pounds gained by the control group. This is the exercise dream, folks. [Eureka]

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Shards

Shards of spirituality 

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.


Leonard Nimoy




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The Angel that presided

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
by William Blake 

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth,
"Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth."

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Robert Mitchum - 1948.

Robert Mitchum sweeps his jail cell after getting busted for marijuana in 1948.

[LINK: If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger... ]

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