Grab bag

[dreamer_easy]

From Something Awful, useful phrases translated into Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, such as "There are crocodiles in my pants". (I can still read bits of this. Hee hee hee hee hee.)

From TV Tropes, Never Live It Down explains so much about fandom (Owen, Gwen, Spike, etc etc etc).

Christian beliefs still strong, says survey: "More than four in 10 Australians who do not consider themselves "born again"' still believe Jesus rose from the dead, while one in 10 does not believe he existed."

Sadly, the God Spot appears not to exist after all - rather, religious thoughts are distributed through the brain. Sez a researcher: "That suggests that religion is not a special case of a belief system, but evolved along with other belief and social cognitive abilities." I'm very interested by the mention of Theory of Mind. It makes sense that, if survival depends on working out what other people are thinking, you'd end up trying to work out what everything is thinking - much as you can't help seeing human faces everywhere.

Sleep problems linked to suicide

Chaffinch Map of Scotland

Comments

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Baahahahaaha! I'm going to have to bookmark the hieroglyphs. You never know when you might need to inform someone of that fact, after all.

Thanks...

[howlingquietly.livejournal.com]

for posting the TV Tropes link when I read it on a Sunday morning (Chicago US time) so that I could read it on and off all day while not at work (which means I would have spent all day at work reading it). It's like a Wikipedia for jogging my brain for things I remember and learning new connections that amuse me.

I've said it before and I'll feel it again and again, but I'm so glad I'm alive during the Internet again.

Re: Thanks...

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I *love* being able to track down all this obscure, half-remembered stuff from my childhood! Songs, TV shows, etc etc. (TV Tropes is completely addictive. :)

again=age..oops

[howlingquietly.livejournal.com]

my eyes have been reading a screen all day