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"The Black & White Gallery in Chelsea is hosting an exhibition of Robert Whitman’s photos of Prince, c.1978, taken just as he was on the cusp of fame." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Always and forever, Prince rules the whole school. - Anika Palm

I am not a big Prince fan, but there is no denying he is a great musical gift - RAPatton

""The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about the sensory experience," Lazar explains. "For example, if you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen to it rather than thinking about it. If your leg falls asleep, you just notice the physical sensations. If nothing is there, you pay attention to your breathing." Successful meditators get used to not thinking or elaborating things in their mind. Study participants meditated an average of about 40 minutes a day. Some had been doing it for only a year, others for decades. Depth of the meditation was measured by the slowing of breathing rates. Those most deeply involved in the meditation showed the greatest changes in brain structure. "This strongly suggests," Lazar concludes, "that the differences in brain structure were caused by the meditation, rather than that differences in brain thickness got them into meditation in the first place."" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

it scares me, being totally still. then those thoughts i don't want to come around come around... eeee! ;) - edythe

Jason: yes, practice helps. It's not so much "turning thoughts off" as it is not hanging on to them, not chasing them down to the next thought, letting it go. edythe: I wish I understood fear and knew the secret to letting go of it. Fear can have a tight grip sometimes. Perhaps you can learn to observe your fear without elaborating on it? - Jason Wehmhoener

wow, I don't think i would have noticed that at all unless you had pointed it out. i have no idea. - edythe

Good catch. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

i like how one box has its "this arrow up" pointing down, LOL. - Eugene Huo

captivating - Michael W. May via twhirl

interesting. I got this FF thread on the first page of results near the bottom. then i opened a new browser window, same query, got this FF thread in the *middle* of the first page of results (it moved up). then I posted the comment about this showing up in the Google search results, and of course it's nowhere to be found now. (waves to Big Brother) - Karim

Karim - yes, that is part of the strangeness of the photo. It seems impossible that you could fall all that way and be completely intact like that, as if the car absorbed everything but her body and face... - edythe

Quote: “The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again." - Leo Laporte via Bookmarklet

How do such insanely crappy movies get made? At what point do otherwise-intelligent people not feel compelled to say "Dude, this is absolutely shit. Stop the presses, er, filming now!!!" And, of equal importance, why do people support this crap with their hard-earned time and money? Seriously. - Adam Lasnik

@AdamLasnik - I ask myself that all the time. But then again I've seen most Nic Cage movies and liked very few. I walked out of National Treasure 2 thinking "what power does this man hold to make me keep spending my money on this junk?!" Luckily Mike Myers doesn't hold the same power over me. - Adam

Yahoo is turning into Alta Vista, Excite, or Go.com. Not too long now - John Frost

Edythe - Some transparency in the coming days would be good. With all the headlines worrying about Flickr, Del.icio.us, etc. Of course, for you I'm available for an exclusive but I have a feeling you just got 50 phonecalls?! :) - Charlie Anzman

Bye bye Yahoo! Ahem. Wait. What is this Yahoo thing you're all talking about? - Benedikt Koehler

This morning I noticed several cars parked near a coffee shop that was closed apparently for the free wi-fi that the shop offers. The greater irony is that there is a Starbucks less than .25 to .50 miles away. Talk about conditioned rats:( - Roney Smith

so they don't turn off their wi-fi when they are closed? i would if i owned a coffee house. or turn it to password protected at night. - Chris Harris

find an interesting person and check what rooms they join and see http://ffrd.appspot.com - "Czar" DJ Peterman

checking the ones my friends are in. socialmedia 30day challenge, journalism - washwords via twhirl

still here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse... - ※Fu※

I remember when this song first came out, I loved it. I had no idea what the hell he was talking about, but, still... wicked song. - Yolanda

It is pretty good too, more pain and less sexy than the Prince version. - RAPatton

Yeah.... We were dancing around to this at recess in the sixth grade when the teacher came over, slammed on the boom box and berated us. Couldn't figure out why.... - Chris Reed

what do you like better about feedly then friendfeed or others? just curious. I'm trying to cut back, not add more tools, great s they might be. i'm exploding! - washwords

I'm really liking Feedly as well. We'll see how it goes - Shey

iGoogle has been my home page for well over a year and what I have found is that via widgets its generally there for me to either click on gmail or to go into google reader - the other widgets are generally worth an odd glance but thats about it - I've put feedly as my home page and will see how this works out - but first impressions is a clean easy to use interface even if you have a few hundred feeds to juggle.. - Jican

"Drinkwine-Layer"! - edythe

"Scientists think that the tens of millions of salmon in Broughton’s 27 Norwegian-owned farms are attracting sea lice and passing them on to wild fish, killing them. They say that this infestation could drive Broughton’s pink salmon to extinction by 2011. To rid salmon of the lice, fish farmers spike their feed with a strong pesticide called emamectin benzoate, which when administered to rats and dogs causes tremors, spinal deterioration and muscle atrophy. The United States Food and Drug Administration, already hard-pressed to inspect imported Asian seafood for antibiotic and fungicide residues, does not test imported salmon for emamectin benzoate. In other words, the farmed salmon in nearly every American supermarket may contain this pesticide, which on land is used to rid diseased trees of pine beetles. It is not a substance I want in my body." - Paul Buchheit