Thursday, March 19, 2009

I Want One...


Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work
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Friday, March 6, 2009

Welcome to Mario Kart!



And as a bonus, here's a little bit about Remi Gaillard
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Prank Wars



LOL
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Music, Mind, and Heart


Benjamin Zander explain what it is to love music


I've often thought about what it is to love music, why we love music, and what it is that music does to us. The best answer I've been able to come up with is that rather than "connecting" with the music, as many people describe it, we "resonate" with the music. Resonating is more than a mere connection, it is an active connection. Music doesn't just appeal to some feeling, some emotion deep within us, it brings that emotion out and forces us to feel.

Well, there's the touchy feely.

And here's the fascinating.

While this is a truly interesting story, the article I've linked to is a bit long (8 pages).
Here's the summary:
Clive Wearing, a British musician and conductor, suffered a brain infection in 1985 that caused severe damage to his brain, specifically areas that are related to memory. The damage resulted in severe anterograde amnesia, meaning that while he can remember parts of his life before the infection he is unable to retain any new memories after the infection. Every 30 seconds or so he 'wakes up' and has no idea where he is or how he got there. The kicker is that he does retain procedural memory. He can remember how to perform daily tasks like making coffee, he can predict the outcome of movies he's seen before without knowing how or why he can do this, and most intriguingly he is still a masterful musician.

Here's a video of Clive being led to play piano and conduct some singers, all the while swearing up and down that he "doesn't know a note of music"






Here is a man with no memories; a man who is forced to live every day not like it is his last, but as if it is his first. He has little recollection of what he's done or what has happened to him, but as his wife points out he still maintains all of his feelings, all of his emotion, all of his passion. He doesn't know why he has these feelings, but "all he shows us is raw human passion straight from the heart of the mind."

A tragically fascinating idea, certainly, that a man with no memory is a master musician with great passion. It makes me doubt ever more the importance of one's situation as opposed to the importance of what one feels and how one reacts to the situation. There's more to life than what you say or do - there is what you feel, what others feel, and how you connect and resonate with others. If a man with no memory can feel and love, why can't the billions of others blessed with memory?

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The Banana: An Atheist's Nightmare



Dawkins played this video at his talk at the Wharton today, and I found it pretty humorous. For those who don't know, the banana has been subject to artificial selection for at least 5000 years, beginning in Papua New Guinea.

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

This makes me feel good everytime I watch it.

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It's Karmio!

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/53134
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Jugador 3000 (MP): $182.60
goat1050 (CO): $239.05
Hasnen (BTN): $523.05
DVDmand (SB): $211.15
Xuan768 (BB): $925.90
mr roshan (UTG): $202.80

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Xuan768 is BB with 6s 9c

Hasnen: nh sir

4 folds

DVDmand has 15 seconds left to act
DVDmand: chips Xuan ?

DVDmand raises to $34

DVDmand: 7 3
Xuan768: lol
Xuan768 has 15 seconds left to act

Xuan768 raises to $925.90 all in, DVDmand calls $177.15 all in

Flop: ($422.30) Qh 5h 7c

Turn: ($422.30) 8h

Xuan768: D:
Hasnen: wowowowowowo

River: ($422.30) Ac

Final Pot: $422.30
DVDmand shows Td Ts (a pair of Tens)
Xuan768 shows 6s 9c (a straight, Nine high)
Xuan768 wins $419.30
(Rake: $3.00)

goat1050: LOL
Hasnen: oFMFMFMD
DVDmand: omfg dummm &%@
Xuan768: lol shoulda told me you had TT
DVDmand: sick
Hasnen: AWESOME
DVDmand: fuuuu you
Hasnen: ;ljaksdf;kjasdfjkl;
Xuan768: that backfired so hard ina good way
Hasnen: that was legendary
Hasnen: you're so my hero right now
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