Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Sleep seems to be key in allowing the brain to infer big-picture relationships from scattered facts--and by implication, memories. I've never been a strong sleeper, and I wonder if some of the "fails" in my older memories stem from inadequate deep sleep.
• Also from Wired Science: People who don't get enough sleep are touchy and angry. (Not like that'

Comments

[billroper]

I love Lileks. As daisy_knotwise says, "The 70s were an ugly decade."

[jetfx]

There's far worse abuses of patent than what has happened to Microsoft. In the provided link, a wealthy businessman patented some Mexican Yellow Beans he had found on vacation, something grown by the peasants for over a century, and used the money earned from taking a cut of all US imports fund a defense against litigation. Apparently he was allowed to earn money right up until the patent was invalidated, even in the midst of litigation.

[jeff_duntemann]

Of course; such examples are numberless. What I meant was that if Microsoft's cash cow is threatened, Microsoft will begin spending money on patent reform. And that will bring it to the top of the queue.

Re: Le Bleak

[baron_waste]

did real, human, breathing girls wear these things?

No, of course not. Look at a catalog for today. The images might be less goofy, but they're no more relevant to the obese, slouching, shapeless, utilitarian-clothed androgynes of 21st-century America than are these to the girls of 1973. But a catalog filled with ratty jeans and tie-dyed t-shirts would look somewhat discouraging. These bizarre fantasies are at least colorful!