The Rarest of the Rare

Excerpted from the Gary Snyder’s article “Writers & the War Against Nature”:

I meant it. Please pass this message around. Thank you.

The weeks’ best posts on LifeHacker: tada!

This Craigslist mashup is pretty cool. It analyzes real statistics based off of Craigslist employment, pricing, rent, ect. Check it out here.

I also love this wonderful website: www.FFFFound.com..

Esquire stacked up 75 books every man should read here. I wonder if inside the literature men will discover how to really increase their size..?

Dig Obama? Well here is the Obamix available for download. On the subject of Obama, here’s an interesting article by Slate on Obama needing a slogan.

Free poetry class from Yale: English 310: Modern Poetry

Stefan Glerum’s pencil drawings are pretty cool.

See the history of the internet here.

Thankfully, I can always go to PostSecret and feel better about myself.

How can anyone not listen to NPR? Do you need a lecture?

The FAIL blog always makes me giggle.

Ok, I’m going to bed.

Air - Don’t Be Light video
Taken from the album 10 000 Hz

Today I came across a great article on spontaneous memories in The New York Times. Last week scientists found evidence that for the brain, remember is like reliving.

Some scientists argue that as humans evolved, cells possibly adapted to register a longer list of essential memories like: sounds, smells, time of day, chronology and when the experience occurred in relation to that experience.  They explained that as time passes, our memories consolidate, become buried and are put away and reshaped to be retrieved later.

“It’s a really central piece of the memory puzzle and an important step in helping us fill in the detail of what exactly is happening when the brain performs this mental time travel” of summoning past experiences.

Read it here.

Six months of struggle, followed by a week and a half of rehab. Hope this new plan works.

What plan?

THIS plan. (me pointing to my head and looking stern.)