It’s worth contemplating one of the primary factors that drove Facebook’s adoption by (soon) 1 billion people: Loneliness. Americans have less support than ever — 1 in 8 in the Pew survey reported having no “discussion confidants.
Source: technologyreview.com
Bruce Wayne turned his fear of bats into his superhero name. Due to your fear, what would your name be?
Vertigoman. Can fly. Chooses not to.
Blizzard’s let Diablo III players buy & sell items for real money via auction house has drawn controversy arst.ch/tl9
— Sean McKenna (@Mckennr) May 7, 2012
The key to Conrad’s survival has been his mind. After a few minutes in his company, the weirdness and awkwardness of being in a prison visiting area melted away; the surroundings no longer mattered. He spoke as easily of current events, history, etc. as if he were at a cafe table in the Sixth Arrondissment, yakking away as expansively as he might over an absinthe. You ceased to notice the guy with the really scary scar, and that other guy over there surreptitiously gripping the chunky ass of his visiting girlfriend. Stepping into Conrad’s mind was like stepping into a beautifully furnished room. And it was here — not in the horrible crammed cell with the crappy chair, nor among the sterile benches and vending machines of the visitor’s area — that he lived and he survived.
My “DrawSomthing!” App doodles.
4:20pm
My “DrawSomthing!” App doodles.
4:20pm
npr:
Overnight Breakfast: A Feast For Reluctant Risers
I’ve never been much good at mornings. For most of my life, I prided myself on being a night owl, the type of gal who could always handle one more thing after midnight — another phone call, a few more pages of a novel, a last turn on the dance floor. For years, I even showered at night. And if, in the morning, I couldn’t produce a civil word before my first sip of coffee, well, that was a small price to pay.
The other price was breakfast. Night owls are clumsy in the morning, and always running late — so making a plate of eggs or baking a muffin or frying a sausage, I felt, would have been hazardous as well as time-consuming. For years, I knew no breakfast. Not even on the weekends, when by the time I eased my idle toes out of bed into a puddle of late morning sun, it was basically time for lunch.
It never occurred to me that I could have spent my last few conscious moments the night before making breakfast, instead of watching one more YouTube video or Googling the definition of “lagomorph.” Hence, I failed until recently to explore the many charms of the overnight breakfast. -T. Susan Chang (Photo credit: T. Susan Chang/NPR)
In case you haven’t had breakfast yet, try out the recipe for the French Toast. Yum! -Savy
Source: NPR
Irrational escalation” – the phenomenon where people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong.
I think I mite be a victim of this in my career choices.
(via emergentfutures)
Source: climateadaptation
