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If the sentiments don't get you, the fifteen jello shots will.
Just about every Dail Mail reader-baiting, stereotype-enforcing nightmare of modern pisshead youth, neatly encapsulated in a single popular ditty - "Just Dance" by Lady GaGa ( Read more... ) -
A point on associative disassociation and the prevalence of celebrity 'culture' deficits.
Richer or poorer in metaphorical or intellectual terms (http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/219032.html), the time may have come for parents to consider the naming of their offspring with greater care, and considerably more respect for pre-existing geographical significance ( Read more... ) -
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When there are more jokes in my Inbox about Harvard sociologists and Bob the Builder than there are about Tanya Byron, who am I to buck the trend?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7840514.stm
(Cheers to K.)
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Have you got Maslow's e-mail address?
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11964/digital-life/survey-finds-30pc-of-men-would-pick-internet-over-sex
Whoa, steady there, ladies... gender-divide, academia, sexy sex stuff, techie badness, sociobollocksology, linksNot exactly rushing to sign up for it.
Follow-up post on the Grimmelmann article. (http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/150593.html)
"Adding connections fills out your social map, giving you a richer view of your social context. It also makes you yourself more valuable as a contact, since by connecting to you, ( Read more... )Don't do it, Melonekopf.
http://community.livejournal.com/academics_anon/1584004.html
You'll only regret it in the morning.
And for the rest of your career...
Edit: Apologies to the mystified noobs. This might help...http://sensaes.livejournal.No argument here.
"More than half the population believe UK children behave like animals, a survey has suggested.
Half of the 2,021 adults interviewed by YouGov also felt children were increasingly a danger to others..."
More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7732290.stm
Doc Eric " ( Read more... )Let's not belittle this one, or be too sensationalist about it...
RELIGION MAKES SOME PEOPLE GRUMPY!
*Ahem.*
"One of the few studies to look at the effects of religious participation on the mental health of minorities suggests that for some of them, religion may actually be contributing to adolescent depression."http://www. ( Read more... )...and suddenly his userpic began to make a lot more sense.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7390607.stm
Because, basically, he was at heart a party animal.
Melonekopf is already on the case, naturally. The Sunday Times seem terribly keen on a follow-up to his piece about last year's TickleFest... ( Read more... )