Dan Kaplan

"Since the era of Greek antiquity, philosophers have known of the possibility of lucid dreaming—that is, recognizing that you are dreaming while you are in the dream state—and theologians since the time of St Augustine have been aware of such dreams as well. But it was only in the 1980s that lucid dreaming entered the domain of legitimate scientific inquiry, largely as a result of studies conducted by Stephen LaBerge and other psychologists at Stanford University. Such research has revealed much about the nature of lucid dreams and has provided many practical techniques for learning how to induce such dreams and increase their frequency, duration, and clarity." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

@gregory those are my favorite moments of my day, before the conscious mind takes over. I could do a better job of ridding the duality in my mind - Taylor Davidson

Not sure if you are referring to the "sleep institute" -- they developed a sleep mask that detected REM and flashed a light to trigger your conciousness w/o waking up.... never used it, but I've been lucky to have had several L.D.s ... a tsunami or vertigo dream can become lucid as I realize the ridiculousness of my situation ... e.g. 10 foot square apt. with no walls on the 20th floor ... becomes a flying dream - Richard Walker

"I give Citigroup two and a half weeks at most. It might well fall sooner and there will be no bailout. That would start a revolution I think. The automakers are screwed and, for the first time today, the news commentators started talking about Chapter 7 rather than Chapter 11. That is liquidation as opposed to restructuring. A Chapter 11 filing is based upon restructuring and an influx of new capital... Excuse me??? "New capital"??? If the government won't invest $25 billion does anyone think the private sector is going to risk a nickle on those behemoths when the financials are trying to hold on to every dollar they have? It was always going to be Chapter 7 liquidation. That was obvious to me. They may pass through Chapter 11 on the way, but there's no way the big three would ever emerge from "Debtor in Possession" status. To make a sick joke... The wheels really are coming off." - Sean McBride via Bookmarklet

Roberto - I wonder what the transition would look like between those two financial regimes -- it would probably be a nightmare. But we may be facing a nightmare anyway. - Sean McBride

One thing is sure. Obama cannot and will not drastically change direction of financial and bsiness conduct. Afterall, the science of finance and business did not disappear during Reps. So all he can and will perhaps do is to add teds and bits more relevant to Dem approach.. - Hayk

"The signs are amassing that Barack Obama put a political con job over on the American people. He is now daily buying into the entrenched military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned Americans about in his farewell address. With Robert Rubin on his side during his first photo opportunity after the election, he signaled to Wall Street that his vote for the $750 billion bailout of those speculators and crooks was no fluke (Rubin was Clinton’s financial deregulation architect in 1999 as Secretary of the Treasury before he became one of the hugely paid co-directors tanking Citigroup.)" - Sean McBride via Bookmarklet

Obama's popularity reached so high a peak that it self-amplifies sustainably adding loads of hype and unrealistic expectations from him. This phenomena reminds me somewha of the initial period of Google stock climb right their IPO. It skyrocketed and everyone knew that it was all hype and that Google's only bus model was its somewhat olden ad business. Here we go with Obama similarly. Before he can even act, there is so much hype and so much misunderstanding, misnominations and mis..things.. - Hayk

A mover and shaker liked my post! :-) Seriously though, ALA needs to buy a clue with all that money we give them each year. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

As someone who is just now seeing how the sausage is made in planning Annual, I can't disagree. But some of us are actively trying to change things. - Jason Griffey via twhirl

Holy crap! This is FF in microcosm. - Josh Haley

: ) I likey very cute! - SekhemetsHathor

What country might that be? - Mathew A. Koeneker

شرمنده ی داش فربدم شدم :* - pishi

www.google.com :D - A.J.

http://www.lyricsmode.com این خوبه - Farbod

1. Do Not Use Turn Signals - embee via Bookmarklet

as if he wasn't already creepy enough - Lindsey

creepy - Caroline

I don't understand but it's still funny. - Brian Bufalo

"The Dreamcast (ドリームキャスト, Dorīmukyasuto?, code-named White Belt, Black Belt, Dural, Dricas, Vortex, Katana, Shark, and Guppy during development) is a video game console made by Sega, and is the successor to the Sega Saturn. An attempt to recapture the console market with a next-generation system, it was designed to supersede the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Originally released sixteen months before the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and three years before the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox, the Dreamcast is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles. Dreamcast was widely hailed as ahead of its time, and is still held in high regard for pioneering online console gaming.[4][5] Sega discontinued the Dreamcast in March 2001, and withdrew entirely from the console hardware business; however, support continued in Japan where consoles were still sold until 2006 and new licensed games were still being made by companies of the arcade market until 2007." - Steve Isaacs via Bookmarklet

Definitely still one of my favorite consoles. - abacab

I thought that Nintendo and Sega made a deal so that all Dreamcast games could play on the Wii? Is that possible? - Shevonne Polastre

If it's real son let me know it's real son - Shevonne Polastre

FactCheck.org Analysis: "The Georgia Senate run-off is filled with misleading claims from both sides." - Mark Trapp

Im afraid to fly with them now - Shevonne Polastre

Lots of ads? - Robin Monks via IM

u shaved!!! wtf u can't grow a tiny beard?for me!!! - Caroline

did someone say Crash yet? - Fred Grott