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July 11, 2010: 11:08 am: jonthonDay-to-Day

The True Price of SMS Messages | A GThing Science Project

Wireless Service providers are petty thieves.  This article makes that abundantly clear.

July 7, 2010: 7:55 pm: jonthonDay-to-Day

Alumni of the Month

Congrats to Citra, who was Indonesia’s Fulbrighter of the month!  Her involvement in Indonesian Journalism, her against-all-odds life story, and her internationalism, among other things, are quite impressive!

July 5, 2010: 3:38 pm: jonthonDay-to-Day

The Associated Press: Japanese eating champ in hot water in NY

Wow, I definitely saw Kobayashi being carried around by people during the contest…but he got arrested afterward?  I take his side – he shouldn’t have to sign a contract for the American eating league – first, because that’s a joke, right, and second, because HE IS A SIX-TIME CHAMPION OF THE EVENT!

Let him eat!  Let him eat!

June 25, 2010: 12:37 am: jonthonDay-to-Day

Rape-aXe: A Female Condom With Teeth

A novel approach to protecting oneself against rapists.  He does have to insert for this device to be deployed.  See the pictures…

June 20, 2010: 12:23 am: jonthonDay-to-Day

The Glenn Beck Haiku Project

you are a mormon
social justice pioneer
that’s only half-right

June 19, 2010: 7:48 pm: jonthonMusic

Tinariwen has the perfect back story for a rock band.

June 6, 2010: 1:36 pm: jonthonDay-to-Day

F*ck Yeah, Tattoos.

: 1:23 pm: jonthonDay-to-Day, dreamery

BBC News – Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’.

Is the difference attributable to schizophrenics just having less inhibitions than creatives, or do creatives get better control of their thought patterns to avoid becoming schizophrenic?

Explanation by pull quote:

“Fewer D2 receptors in the thalamus probably means a lower degree of signal filtering, and thus a higher flow of information from the thalamus,” said Professor Ullen.

Cool pull quotes:

“Creativity is uncomfortable. It is their dissatisfaction with the present that drives them on to make changes.”

“Creativity is certainly about not being constrained by rules or accepting the restrictions that society places on us. Of course the more people break the rules, the more likely they are to be perceived as ‘mentally ill’.”

June 4, 2010: 7:40 pm: jonthonDay-to-Day

Is Steve Jobs Big Brother? – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com.

(No.)

This only makes me want to invest in AAPL more…

May 9, 2010: 12:14 am: jonthonDay-to-Day

Just another way the world might end in 2012