Dryope

Does this mean phrenology isn't as completely crazy as we all thought?

New research on the iris:

The researchers looked at crypts (pits) and contraction furrows (lines curving around the outer edge of the iris), which are formed when pupils dilate.

It was found that those with more crypts were likely to be tender, warm and trusting, while those with more furrows were more likely to be neurotic, impulsive and give in to cravings.

[...]

The researchers suggest that a neurodevelopmental gene called PAX6 could also play a major role.

It is known to help control the development of the iris in an embryo.

Previous research has also shown that a mutation of PAX6 is linked to impulsiveness and poor social skills.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6375381.stm)

But what does it all *mean*?

You Are Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"We saved the world. I say we have to party."

What Superheroine Are You?

You Should Be a Strawberry Blonde Redhead

Sweet and simple, with a subtle fiery glow.

What Kind of Redhead Should You Be?

Your Life is Like

Being John Malkovich

What John Cusack Movie Are You?

If they're right about the hair, what else could the on-line quizzes be right about? Am I really the chosen one?

Crawling Out

I have a pile of little notes to myself in a bucket by my desk.  I started implementing the GTD system (I'm not linking to those guys--they get far too much notice on the Internet already and I don't want any myself), the first step of which is dumping everything you're supposed to do into a "bucket" (literal me has a real bucket instead of the in-box or PDA the system recommends) and then sorting it out according to a flow-chart written for idiots.  This is perfect for me, because when I'm faced with my jumble of little notes, most scrawled when I was half asleep or while I was at a traffic light, I feel like I'm reading a scrap of automatic spirit writing ( http://skepdic.com/autowrite.html for the uninitiated).

Here are some examples:

* Ask Joh - knitting needles??
*& call Hannah chair? (I've determined this is not "chair" but a little arrow and "hair" but this doesn't clarify much)
* + bead robbers
* thing in vie lab or link (and it took a lot of work to get /that/, because the words were written over each other)

The code-breaking was useful, though, because I found some really neat things that I wouldn't have remembered to check out otherwise:

Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere.  I keep running into them but I never heard about him before.  (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jean_de_la_bruyere.html )

A guy who can (supposedly) move giant stones based on ancient technology (http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/)

A new wiki dedicated to government leaks ( http://wikileaks.org/)

An article claiming that slaves didn't build the pyramids (Am I the last one to hear about this?) ( http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070391.html)

A directory of spying communicated openly on the radio (http://www.spynumbers.com/)

And...I got almost no schoolwork done today.  At least I have my priorities straight.

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."

Bah. We are those children: http://www.ipcc.ch/

Makes Bush look pretty good

Gambian President * Yahya Jammeh: *" I am not a witch doctor and in fact you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a
doctor."

Plus: he has a crazy cure for AIDS. And it works for asthma, too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6323449.stm