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21. januar 2003
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Turning Point
Turns is an artwork combining stories of people's dramatic turning point with visualisation and hypertext technology. The site (and artwork) encourages the audience to participate by reflecting on a major event that changed their lives.
This project is about the poetry and drama of your own story as one who has lived though dramatic generational changes. Turns provides the opportunity for sharing personal narratives as part of the kind of continuity life stories have provided families and social groups as "accumulated wisdom, as living history". It is meant as a new kind of social memory using the web, with its possibilities for creating networked communities and relational databases, as a form of collective social consciousness.
Go to the site as read and search the stories of others and share your own. In the LIFEMAP area of the site, you may also contribute a Memory Map, visually representing a turning point in the course of your life. The Turns project was created by the artist Margrot Lovejoy.
11:18:48 PM 
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Fun things to do in bondage
 Jennifer Lach was drunk and handcuffed, and placed in the back of the police car. That didn't prevent her from slipping her cuffs to her front, slithing through a ventilation window to the front of the car and driving off, leaving the embarrassed officers behind. She kept the police at bay while driving wildly through the streets near Belmar, New Jersey, reaching speeds up to 80 mph, until finally crashing into a police car and being arrested again.
The list of charges were quite a bit longer afterwards.
10:15:45 PM
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The pill could get women stuck with macho men
Supposedly, women who are looking for a long-term relationship selects men with more feminine traits, while those looking for a short-term affair tend to go for masculine looking men. Also, women tend to go for 'masculine' men while ovulating.
However, scientists at St Andrew's and Stirling Universities have found out that women who use the contraceptive pill tends to chose 'macho men' even if they are looking for long term material.
8:46:54 PM
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Golden age of hoaxes
"I think we're living through another golden age of hoaxes," says Alex Boese. He should be in a position to know, being the curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a site devoted to documenting the world's famous and not-so-known hoaxes. Ranging in time from the near-mythical female pope Joan to the presidential IQ tests of last year, the web site is already a good collection of proven, alleged and possible hoaxes.
7:34:15 PM
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Still as close as you get to a free lunch
 MITs OpenCourseWare, a free site offering online course material (sans books), has greatly expanded since my last visit. It is still a 'pilot project,' apparently, but in addition to the previous offerings they have now added some humanities courses: anthropology, history, comparative media and literature.
For the media courses, check out the lectures in streaming video (RA)!
This is good, and it seems this is only the beginning. Big kudos to MIT.
6:15:11 PM
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France prepared to block war
France appeared to have stiffened its resistance against a UN Security Council resolution opening for use of force against Iraq, and seems prepared to use the veto if necessary. While France, as every other Security Council member, had supported the return of arms inspectors backed by a strong mandate, every country except the US and UK seems more than willing to let the inspection work continue for months. This is a major setback for the Bush administration.
5:49:42 PM
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And how does that thing work?
 Questions about how stuff works pops up from time to time, even for people who don't have kids. Somebody has registered the HowStuffWorks.com domain, and put it to very good use. Wonder how a car engine works? An optical mouse (pciture)? Air conditioners? You can surely find out here.
A bit troubling, however, to find out that the top of the top-ten question is how light sabres work. The answer is, of course, only in George Lucas' imagination, but they do use the opportunity to tell how the special effect is made in StarWars.
4:20:00 PM
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Retalibanisation
"Afghanistan's chief justice has shut down cable television services in Kabul because they were broadcasting un-Islamic programmes." (Yahoo! News)
12:15:44 PM
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And since there is no such thing as good timing...
Toothache! Type: very very bad.
Well, at least smoking is not top of my mind right now.
Three hours until dentist's appointment. Two hours, fifty-nine minutes, fifty-nine seconds....
10:21:32 AM
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Lost in the smoke 
The Secular Blasphemer may be up for slow blogging, frantic blogging, extreme (sorry, Xtreme) blogging, stupid blogging, or whatever blogging in the coming days.
He has smoked his last cigarette, basta, and then the surroundings will just have to take whatever comes their way.
The form is good, slowly vaccilating bwteen homocidal and suicidal. The recent non-smoker has probably never been having a higher probability of making it into the news.
9:32:54 AM
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