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Why does payday feel good? You can’t eat money, and it can’t have your babies — so how did that 'ker-ching!' feeling become so sweet?

Working with rats, neuroscientists have gained an insight into how the brain comes to take pleasure in abstract rewards. Animals, they suggest, have a reward system that focuses on specific outcomes — what an action would achieve — which in turn plugs into a more general system that lets us know what feels good.

The essence of happiness : Nature News

WASHINGTON - An infamous atomic smuggler may have had blueprints for a compact, sophisticated nuclear warhead, and that could mean that the world's proliferation problem is even worse than many experts had thought.

US officials have long declared the nuclear technology ring run by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan to be shattered. But revelations that a digitized bomb design turned up on the computer of an associate of Mr. Khan's show that US and UN investigators may not yet know everything Khan did, despite the fact that he has been under house arrest in Pakistan for years.

Did rogue network leak nuclear bomb design? | csmonitor.com

Four young residents of a North Philadelphia house who circulated petitions questioning police-surveillance cameras were rousted from their home Friday and detained 12 hours without charges while police searched their house.

The raid on the property on Ridge Avenue near Parrish Street was led by 9th District Police Capt. Dennis Wilson, who was quoted in an online story by the City Paper as saying of the residents: "They're a hate group. We're trying to drum up charges against them, but unfortunately we'll probably have to let them go."

He said he asked Wilson if he had a warrant, and none was produced.

Vanore said police will conduct a forensic examination of the items taken from the property to see if any charges are warranted.

Wow.

The cops came, searched and left a mess for puzzled homeowner | Philadelphia Daily News | 06/17/2008

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”

I'd never heard of this guy. Anyone got a link to the original source writings? Anyone read them before? Noteworthy?

The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com

Now her campaign appears to be in damage control as Hillary’s top advisers held a conference call with supporters to try and help them to keep their chins up.
 One caller in the conference had this to say about Tim Russert:
Another said Russert “should be shot,” before quickly adding that she shouldn’t say that on a conference call.
 Nice, huh? I thought having debates was about asking candidates tough questions on the issues so that you could find out where they stand. But evidently you are not supposed to ask Hillary any tough questions, or any other Democrat for that matter. God forbid we actually found out where she stands on an issue. I know where she stands, and there is a fence involved. Russert tried to nail her down and get her to come off that fence, but she didn’t and now he is the one who is being attacked. This is typical of the Clinton smear machine.
 Russert better watch his back now that a supporter has said he should be shot, because he just might be shot.

Hillary Clinton Supporter: “Tim Russert Should be Shot” « Wake Up America

Robertson next saw the boy two weeks after 9/11, at which point he was in a terrible state - "tortured", as he put it, by his tics, and wracked with guilt, believing that 9/11 occurred because he had failed to walk on a particular white mark on a road.

We should send the bastard to guantanamo!

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: The boy who thought 9/11 was his fault

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Somebody please start making hacked versions of these.

Talking Jesus Doll – Messenger of Faith Talking Bible Doll – One2Believe Toys

Trillions and Zillions of Ideas.

Consciousness is a Ball.

Ideas are like fish. Originality is just the ideas you caught.

David Lynch, on Ideas (and TM)

Rogers Cadenhead tells THREAT LEVEL on Monday he has taken down works from his Drudge Retort blog that The Associated Press has deemed an infringement of the nation's oldest and largest newsgathering operation's copyrights.

The AP recently sent seven takedown notices to his social news site for the offense of reposting a few sentences or more and reprinting their headlines, sometimes linking those sentences and headlines to the full stories generated from the New York-based media concern.

Drudge Retort Episode Highlights 'Fair Use' Uncertainties | Threat Level from Wired.com