Physorg: “U.S. psychologists say they’ve found that handling a gun creates a hormonal reaction in men that can prime them for aggression.”
Month / May 2006
Blogging the World
Over at Mr. Wickett’s, the hardest working man in litblog business has been offering some serious coverage of Reading the World.
A Dark Time for Bay Area Indies
Mr. Sarvas somehow beat us to the punch again. But, hot on the heels of the Clean, Well-Lighted Place sale, it looks like the Cody’s Telegraph store is closing, not long after Cody’s opened the San Francisco store.
[UPDATE: Scott Esposito offers some words on how Cody’s is/was a vital part of the Berkeley landscape.]
[UPDATE 2: Ron Silliman also offers a tribute.]
He Hasn’t Accounted for the Ejector Seat I Have Permanently Affixed to My Ass, But He Has a Point
Allen M. Jones on the “pleasure and pain of owning books”: “It seems that we should treasure our books if only because the alternative – a life in modernity without the possibility of escape, without reading – is too bleak to contemplate.”
And By Lower Half, We Know What’s On Your Dirty Minds
Chosun: “The Korean Institute for Industrial Technology (KITECH) said the android, which has the face and body of a woman in her 20s, is 160 cm tall and weighs 50 kg. Ever-1 can move its upper body and ‘express’ happiness, anger, sadness and pleasure. But the robot is still incapable of moving its lower half.” (via Warren Ellis)