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Lifehack suggests 6 Steps To Remove TV From Your Life.
2. Remove your cable subscription.
Being subscribed to the cable TV makes you feel compelled to keep watching, so as to maximize the value of your subscription. If you’re serious about removing TV from your life, unsubscribe immediately. Forget about the line-up of shows on cable – not only do you get a big chunk of your life back, you also save money in the process.
Later today I will be having dinner with a lovely young lady who collects eggs. So I started to wonder, on this day set aside to celebrate the founding of our nation… does she know this little ditty about turkeys, eagles, and eggs from the film '1776'?
My beautiful and scary-intelligent sister-in-law is a physician specializing in the brain. So, naturally, when I see a list of 18 Beautiful Infographics About the Human Brain, I'm going to have to post it here.
If you are interested in seeing what the different regions of the brain are responsible for, this infographic is quite enlightening.
It offers a look at what goes on in different areas, such as the fact that reading and comprehension take place in the parietal lobe, near the occipital lobe. You can also see that sensory speech goes over more than one lobe. Color coding makes it easier to identify different regions.
My new favorite webcomic is Jonathan Rosenberg's Scenes From A Multiverse. The comic visits a different segment of the multiverse every week, and readers vote on which one to revisit.
(hat tip: BoingBoing)
Five years in, the new Doctor Who is an unqualified success. For those who may have yet to discover the series, here are my two favorite stories thus far:
Series 1: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) follow a mysterious spacecraft to London during the Blitz, only to encounter an equally mysterious — and terrifying — child:
Series 4:Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) visit the biggest library in the universe, and discover another mysterious child and a deadly danger lurking in the shadows:
Series 5: Preview
Matt Smith portrays the Eleventh Doctor in the current series. I haven't seen all the episodes myself, so instead of a favorite, here is a BBC preview. You might want to find something to hang on to…
John Scalzi presents the morning announcements at the Lucas Interspecies School for Troubled Youth…
FriedBeef's Tech has a sizable list of sites that supply free books — including ebooks for free download, and sites that coordinate swapping physical books.
"PigSpigot is an online, user-generated greeting card company that allows customers to send hilarious e-cards, Tweeting cards, and snail-mail cards to friends and family. We like to think of it as an anti-Hallmark with a wiki twist."
The gorgeous Christina Hendricks portrays the most voluptuous android in the universe in the video for the Broken Bells' 'Ghost Inside':
I think I'm in love…
Today is Towel Day, the day on which hoopy froods everywhere carry a towel to honor Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The very talented Marky of Parody Pictures has a number of fun Towel Day desktop wallpapers.
The first computer I ever owned was one I had built myself, from colored beads and little tin cans. I'd found the instructions in an article in Scientific American by the great Martin Gardner, who passed away last week at the age of 95. Watch a documentary about this remarkable man.
David Letterman's Late Show is showcasing close-up magic all this week. The first magician to appear was Jason Randal, on Monday. See below for links to the other performers.
Pick up a phone now and call 1-800-ASPARAGUS! Yes, it's an asparagus commercial as only Garrison Keillor can do it…
…click the arrow to play
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