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Thinking about God...

[identity profile] zornhau.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
..makes me want to liberate the Holy Places and wash them in the blood of the unbeliever...

Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
When I read the first half, what I immediately thought of was identifying as part of a group. I remembered an article saying that people seemed to do better when they thought of themself as the kind of person who didn't do X, than when they explicitly tried to avoid doing X. (And also that it's in some ways easier to cut something out entirely than to cut down on it.)

But the second half suggests there is an effect of thinking about God even if you don't identify as religious, so I don't know.

RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFL. That's awesome, and surprisingly realistic :)

The IFS backs a land value tax

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. What the proponents say is really intriguing, although I don't know enough about it know if it's a good idea or not.

[identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I've only just got my head around the idea that 'The Avengers' is a bunch of comic-book spandex-clad superheroes as well as Steed and Mrs Peel. Now I have to think of 'Hawkeye' as someone other than Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce?
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[personal profile] simont 2012-05-14 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Edible Chocolate Brain from MRI Scan - 3D Printing FTW!

I wouldn't have believed it before following the link, but that title actually makes it sound less awesome than it really is – because it's possible to misunderstand as meaning merely that someone is making and selling these things, whereas the real article explains how to make your own based on your own brain, which is an order of magnitude cooler!

[identity profile] cheekbones3.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Here was me thinking you were eulogising about the motion-capture technology, and it turns out to be something about a random cartoon!

[identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The Lucas bit (bless his heart, and I do mean that in the best ways) reminds me of a great zinger from Auntie Mame. She smacks down some wide-spectrum assholes who are also broad-range bigots by building an orphanage for Jewish Nazi survivors across from their very restricted development.

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The 3.1 guy.... wow. Any guy who asks "how can I make this Win 3.1 machine ALSO do timesheets?" is not qualified to be in IT. Seriously.

The commenters are generally correct: Disconnect that network cable, DO NOT network the PC, glue an iPad to the wall next to it and use *that* for your web-based timesheet entry. Except the iPad requires a computer with iTunes - so get an Aspire W and glue *that* to the wall.

[identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com 2012-05-14 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
50% chance of side effects (mostly soreness, but some very serious) from chiropractic? I don't believe the low claim-- if it was much soreness, I think I'd have heard of it in casual conversation considering how common chiropractic is.

I can easily believe that fairly rare but serious side effects happen more often than proponents of chiropractic want to accept.
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