IT IS APRIL AND THAT MEANS THAT SPRING IS MAKING ME WANT TO DIE. AGAIN.

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People keep asking me what my fucking New Year's Resolutions are. I only ever have 2 and I meet them every time:
1. Not to make new year's resolutions.
2. To become an even bigger asshole.

I know that 1 and 2 contradict each other. Guess what? Fuck you!

Yesterday while I was sitting in a McDonald's drive-through anticipating the reception of therapy fries, some serendipitous interplay of streetlamp, downpour, glass, light, and position resulted in a bizarre visual projected on the anterior surface of my passenger seat's dashboard.

This here's a shitty-ass video I recorded of the event.

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arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/12/eliminating-dopamine-turns-fruit-flies-into-masochists.ars

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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that seems to have been around from about the time of the very first nerves. Every animal we've looked at, including some that branched off prior to the Cambrian, seems to express the dopamine signaling machinery in ( Read more... )

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Teens fake mental health issues to look cool at school
by Danny Buckland, Daily Mirror 27/12/2010

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MENTAL illness is the latest fashion accessory for teenagers, a survey revealed today.

Youngsters are faking serious conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression and self-harming in an attempt to look cool and copy celebrity sufferers.

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i bought my friend his xmas present just now. a deluxe scrabble set. it's one of those self-serving gifts though. i just wanna play scrabble.

i downloaded the norwegian wood soundtrack yesterday on the strength of the fact that almost all of the songs on it were created by radiohead's lead guitarist johnny greenwood. i wasn't expecting what it ( Read more... )

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Personality and Individual Differences (Volume 49, Issue 7, November 2010, Pages 738-742)

Can an ‘Extreme Female Brain’ be characterised in terms of psychosis?

Abstract

The empathising-systemising (E-S) theory proposes that many sex differences can be explained by females typically demonstrating greater empathising abilities (understanding of the ( Read more... )