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Secular Quotes

The last time I prayed was when I was 14. A snow plough had covered a group of us under a mass of snow and I was praying to be rescued even as I lost consciousness. So how come his rescue didnít reinforce a belief in the power of prayer?

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yoda beside the sea

http://www.gnomz.com/bd-22859.html

psycho

Memory for faces

http://www.mindhacks.com/...faces_fade.html Good snippet on www.mindhacks.com today Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognise faces. It most commonly occurs after brain injury, although this week's New Scientist reports on a recently completed study on a type of inherited prosopagnosia, suggesting a genetic

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turn to the funnys

http://look.onemonkey.org/bd.html These comic strips things I found seem addictive but are probably just a passing fad, that I will have given up on by this time next tuesday. But nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm so you may  now follow the link to the

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.theotherpages.org/unsort05.html Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. and that quote in full A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of

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onemonkey, the comic

http://www.gnomz.com/bd-22714.html www.gnomz.com is a french website that lets you roll your own comicstrips. It is so easy even an American president could do it. one monkey or one god [click for clearer version] I'm being satirical.. see here.. The Bible vs

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Trekking to the North Pole for Cancer Research

As I trudged through Canary Wharf's stupidly oversized tube station this fine morning, I encountered several overly jolly people collecting money for a 'trek to the North Pole for Cancer Research'. It was early in my day so I didn't connect the dots. Surely,

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Austrian Quasi-Sovereign Borrowers

Our corporate intranet is delighted to report that we acted as Joint Bookrunner on a Ä750 million senior unsecured 12.5 year Floating Rate Note benchmark transaction for  Pfandbriefstelle der Oesterreichischen Landeshypothekenbanken! Ain't life grand?

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A few words before we go

http://justinhorton.blogspot.com

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A modest proposal

My dream PhD would have been to spend three years making babies yawn or giggle and then trying to get computers to do the same. This was how I was going to justify it. Models of Expectancy in Infants [pdf] 63k Unfortunately, this was a bit too narrow a topic

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Edward Fitzgerald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzgerald If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple. Science unrolls a greater epic than the Iliad. The present day teems with new

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MIT World ª Distributed Intelligence ª Home

http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php MIT Worldô is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. Cool!

psycho

The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art

http://homepage3.nifty.co...ry/index_e.html

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Interconnected

http://interconnected.org/home

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WBD - Send a postcard - Scare a child

http://worldbookday.underwired.com/ maybe I take it back about the quality of the world book day imagery.. I just sent some of their electronic postcards and I wonder if I should have done: abused knowcan't sing 'Happy Birthday'

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World Book Day

http://www.worldbookday.com/ Today is World Book Day, whatever one of those is. How will you be marking it? I will probably be reading a few pages of this trashy novel i've got in my pocket and a few more improving sections from Mind Hacks. I might

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vision things

http:// another new category.. you work it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/onemonkey/

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Hunter Stockton Thompson

http://www.gonzo.org It is time to start a new category for quotations, and where HST is concerned it is only appropriate that it ought to be woefully inappropriate: Thatís why I live out here in the mountains with a flag on my porch and loud Wagner music blaring

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Letter to the Editor

It's not often I write letters to public figures. But I spotted a bit of breath-taking stupidity in today's Times that could not pass without comment. To the Editor, The Times Sir, It is unclear to me if it was Hugo Rifkind or Steve Fuller who

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Eavesdroppings

"You're not going into Marks and Spenser if you carry on like that" "He could play the spoons OR the bagpipes!"

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beekeeper of the heart

As any foole knows, Saint Valentine is actually three different semi-legendary people all of who were grusomely martyred. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm You probably knew that they are the patron saints of beekeepers, but far more disturbingly they are also the patron saints of greeting card manufacturers.

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Laughing man breaks Necker

No, this is not a 'Ha Ha Bonk' joke. Some Australian optometrist has discovered that laughing makes your brain go funny. Prof. Pettigrew is a jovial chap who happens to be  director of Queensland Uni's Vision Thing. He noticed that laughter stops binocular rivalry illusions/phenomena.

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Mutual mutilation at IN2U

I can't quite believe that there is anyone as idosyncratically enthusiastic nor as enthusiastically reckless as me, but there is and now she is easy to spot in a crowd. That'll be Ade and she'll be the one with the Necker Cube on her

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Time Reversible Cellular Automata

http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~kwanghyung.paek/paper/ I've just finished reading Greg Egan's Permutation City. As ever, he is way out there, describing (amongst other things) a massive cellular automata universe, the rules of which are such that it can act as interesting 'toy model&

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making connections

It's a small metropolis! My mate Mike (see this) reviews a new book by my blog-buddy and friend of a friend Tom Stafford. But what is most amazing, is that this is the first I've heard of it. Especially, when it seems to be so completely