Netflix Watch Now! Netflix started rolling out their WatchNow instant video feature in January. If it hasn’t shown up in your account yet, try the link above to activate it. Oh, but try it in Internet Exploder. It doesn’t work in Firefox. Netflix WatchNow tests your connection speed to choose what video quality to stream. […]
Into the Void
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miniUSB for RCA Lyra RD2850
Molex 54819-0572 USB On-The-Go (OTG) Mini-B Receptacle, Right Angle, SMT Solder Tails and Shell Tabs, with Cover Tape, Lead-free FYI, this is a drop-in replacement for the miniUSB connector in the RCA Lyra RD2850 MP3 player.
ThinkGeek :: Dear Timmy
ThinkGeek :: Dear Timmy Win a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek. Ask Timmy a question and if he answers, you’re in! Help, Timmy! My smooth-foreheaded mother-in-law is on an extended visit and I’d like to serve her a Klingon delicacy that is so unappetizing to her Terran palate that she leaves in dishonor and *never* […]
TFTD: The Cause of Suffering
All the faults of our mind – our selfishness, ignorance, anger, attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts – are temporary, not permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering – our disturbing thoughts and obscurations – is temporary, our suffering is also temporary. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “Ultimate Healing” From Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist […]
Fermilab in the Sky
Positive Atheism – search for “Magic To Science” when you get to the site. I did a little light reading at lunchtime today. I got a real giggle out of this quote. We see in these perceptions the first appearance of a kind of science — the seeking of causal explanations for the phenomena of […]
Hiding Divya
Bipolar Disorder Daily News Blog: New South Asian (India) Film on Bipolar Disorder Hiding Divya is an English-language film about the stigma against the mental ill in New York/North Jersey Philipino-Indian communities. It’s a must-see.
NAMI and My Sense of Self
Anosognosia (impaired awareness of illness): A major problem for individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. As the years go by, I am less and less impressed with NAMI. I think their agenda is to improve the family’s comfort at the expense of the patient’s autonomy. They teach the rather disturbing idea that a large percentage […]
Talent, a Lifer, or a Mandarin?
I’m a Mandarin! You’re an intellectual, and you’ve worked hard to get where you are now. You’re a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world’s problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you when people […]
Ice-9
Amazon.com: Cat’s Cradle: Books: Kurt Vonnegut I wound up writing this review because recently, in a flight of fancy, someone conjectured that perhaps in other parts of the universe silicon forms four bonds, making ring structures – similar to the carbon-based benzene ring that is the basis of all organic materials – possible. My question […]
’07: A Meme Game
I’ve been meaning to do this for a few days, but life has been kind of hectic. Memes are ideas that spread from mind to mind like a virus. Not sound bytes, not quite, but the ideas conveyed by sound bytes. A quantum thought, perhaps. Would you like to play a meme game to celebrate […]
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