1) Adore Sir Walter Scott? Virginia Woolf did. Allan Massie of Standpoint. discusses the ebbs and tides of readers' love affair with historical fiction.
2) Your little brother was right: boredom may actually be fatal. Read h+ for the lowdown from epidemiologists.
3) Peter Suderman of Reason explains why books are evolving, not dying. Don't Fear the e-Reader. *cue Blue Oyster Cult*
4) Ignore the unfortunate gender-specific puns on the product's name, Lance Ulanoff of PC Mag says women are the iPad's target market and the key to its success.
5) Prosopagnosia: The disorder of NEVER remembering a face. Tammy Cohen in the Telegraph reports up to 2% of the population may have some sort of face blindness.
6) Yeah, apparently EYEBALL TATTOOS are a new jailhouse trend. MSNBC has the story, via The Frisky
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Eyeball tattoos. I guess it shows a certain hypermanliness. A level I don't care to posess.
No. No. No. No. Cannot process the eyeball tattoos. Please tell me this is an evil joke.
I wish I could tell you that no one is that dumb to potentially blind themselves- how hypermanly is is to run into tables and doorframes? But I think we may already have evidence that the least common denominator is so low as to be positively subterranean!
Hey...underground you don't need good eyesight. Maybe this is mole-people fashion for bunker living!
What an eclectic collection, Clare! I can't believe the eyeball tattoos ~ I hope that doesn't grow in popularity. I always wonder about person #2 whenever some cockamamie idea is brought up by person #1; they actually say, "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea!"
Then again, if prisoners are doing it, it's like regular ink tattoos: it only helps to ID them when they're out and commit another crime.
Good point, Kathy! And these DO stand out, even in a ski mask!
I don't want to remember that face.
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