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Smithsonian Magazine | Travel | You got a problem with that?
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May 17, 8:02pm
1 review
new-york
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mytown-newyork.html?c=y&page=
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This is just why I love the City. It's close-quarters, but unlike most such situations people don't try to distance themselves to make up for it.
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Erowid 5-MeO-DIPT Vaults : Sex on the Edge
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Sep 30, 2007 5:26pm
13 reviews
drugs, sex
http://erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dipt/5meo_dipt_article1.shtml
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Never having read a Playboy article before, I was surprised to find that the women who "work" there are actually literate.
But on the subject of the article, fascinating - Drugs are a huge factor in our basic functioning these days. Viagra is the norm, so why aren't libido-enhancing psychoactives?
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NOVA | Great Escape | Historys Great Escapes | PBS
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Jun 3, 2007 1:13pm
1 review
history
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/greatescape/history.html
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My favorite prison escape has to be Casanova. What a nutter.
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Bonkers Institute: Simple Science
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Apr 27, 2007 9:42am
1 review
mental-health
http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/simplescience.html
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A wee bit of research into the clinical studies of some of the drugs here makes if obvious that many of their claims are unproven, if not flatly contradicted, by available evidence.
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Danger Room - Wired News
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Apr 19, 2007 10:32am
1 review
encryption, government, cryptology
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/i_was_recruited.html
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I'm fascinated by cryptology, and especially military applications of the science. Here we have an interesting account of an NSA recruitment presentation.
"The day starts at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, at a meeting room in The Commons, which is one of the newer buildings on campus and is the center of most student life. Tables are arranged hotel-conference-hall style and the food for lunch is already on tables on one side. Two people from the NSA recruiting office were in attendance the whole time. One of these was a 30-something female in a pantsuit who apparently only worked in recruiting while the other was a 40ish male who is an engineer (in slacks and a NSA golf shirt) assigned to a tour in recruiting. Students in attendance range in dress from college student casual all the way up to the job interview uniform of a suit."
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Short Stories - The Whore of Mensa
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Apr 16, 2007 8:01am
3 reviews
humor, fiction
http://members.tripod.com/waitalia/short-uk.html
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"The Whore of Mensa" is one of my favorite short stories. It's where the "ladder theory"guy got his ideas about intellectual whoredom.
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The Dilbert Blog: Dog Catches Car – Update
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Apr 12, 2007 4:42am
1 review
middle-east
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/04/dog_catches_car.html
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Scott Adams has insight which mere mortals cannot know.
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Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes - New York Times
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Apr 11, 2007 7:19pm
1 review
neuroscience
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/health/10gene.html?ei=5088&en=7d00f5700f9db...
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I find the neuroscience of sexuality fascinating and profoundly frustrating. There are a lot of unknown variables, and a lot of studies aren't widely publicized because they aren't PC. However, this here's a brilliant article on the subject.
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StumbleUpon - ahmetkilincs web site reviews and blog
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Apr 5, 2007 9:41pm
11 reviews
stumblers
http://ahmetkilinc.stumbleupon.com/
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There can never be too many Google fanboys.
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How Hitler gained power. - By Clive James - Slate Magazine
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Mar 16, 2007 4:01pm
1 review
history, wwii, holocaust
http://www.slate.com/id/2160283/pagenum/all
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Though I disagree with the popular sentiment that Hitler was in any way unique or outstanding from the usual line-up of dictators, it's really important for anyone to understand how a rather atypical cultured syphilitic artist-type madman could have caused the destruction that his tyranny brought about.
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