Scotsman.com: The discovery raises hopes for thousands for release from depression by drilling holes into their skull and attaching electrodes to the brain which create a brighter mood.
But how does it help you deal with the stigma of having holes drilled into your skull with electrodes attached?
(Yahoo! News): Loud, snide and dismissive, he wasn’t just a disappointment; he ranks up there with the worst hosts ever - particularly when you factor in the expectations. When the show ran a salute to Johnny Carson (news)’s years as host, the comparison was so painful, it made you think the academy would have been better off just letting a computer-generated Carson host again.
Chris Rock may have washed out at the Oscar’s, but according to our Computerized Oscar Pool Winner And Tip Calculation Oracle (COPWATCO), I won the Oscar pool! Being the good sport that I am, though, I’ll still award a prize to second place, which will be announced as soon at COPWATCO wakes up and figures out computes who that is.
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Part of simpleliving.net. Sounds interesting, but it means I’d have to give up all my stuff.
Last minute entries brought this year’s pool entries to six seven. The mystery prize is any single item from the jackpate.com store!
Last minute entries can still be made here.
BoingBoing is full of good stuff today. This article by SciFi writer Will Shetterly resonates a lot with me. I attended a very strict Baptist school from 4th-7th grade, also about the same time I started reading Heinlein, LOTR, etc.
(uuworld): Conservative Christians would say that fantasy and science fiction led me astray. I say those stories led me home. They made it possible to read the Bible as if it were a new text, without two thousand years of accreted interpretation by people who wanted me to see what they saw or wanted me to see. Those stories made me a Unitarian who believes that God is in everything. They made me a Universalist who believes that love is available for every living creature. They made me a Christian who believes that heaven is in us all, if we only know how to look. Many writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy will tell you there’s nothing religious or spiritual in these books. As a Unitarian Universalist, I respect their interpretation. But I still take revelation where I find it.
I’m not sure from reading this if his family didn’t really expect for this to happen when it did.
Rocky Mountain News: “This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure,” Anita Thompson said by phone, recounting that she was sitting in her husband’s chair he called his catbird seat in the Rockies.