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very day, every hour, we suffer sewers of spam.  I have elected my browsing experience to serve as a haphazard  litmus (lacking funding and corporate sponsorship) which I have found to be  marginally reliable , if only the data gleaned is applied to one vector of the hedonsitic  soporific, increasingly incestuous imagery typifyes the browsing experience.This doomsayer shall spare those of you further news of apocolypse; many of you have vast banks of  forsight, many of those boasting superiour documentation. better sources. Choir members, forgive my preaching- to the uninitiated, better luck you.
    I am not theTCP/IPersetelephony Goddess of Gloom, I may make of with your faith in mankind, hope for the planet, I will pummel any plan which blooms with a chemical hope that the earth is beyond salvation. In fact, the abandonment of a dead planet as murderous and toxic as Earth need repel some enterprising race from populating our turf. I cannot in good faith  leave the fuel rods and half life of  three waves of excruciating demise to be discovered by innocents. Or worse than innocents.  This includes a race which  investigated the horror of isotopic decay and left the meager benefits untapped. It is small wonder that our last port in a storm which promises renewed interest in ark construction and requisition of blue roofs boast record numbers for the prudent.
          Hedonism. Denial, Wealth, Endorphins

do not mistake this sermon for righteousness of religion. It is intended to instruct- worst case scenarios will appear occassionally. Just remember it is not my objective to deliver you from Sin, but Spam. Spyware, Sedition.
                                  May the force be with You

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Scientists find that a cluttered environment leads to discrimination, stereotyping, and antisocial behavior

Scientists find that a cluttered environment leads to discrimination, stereotyping, and antisocial behavior: "
Last Thursday, Discover Magazine published the article “Disordered environments promote stereotypes and discrimination.” The article examines a study by Dutch researchers who performed five experiments on stereotyping and discrimination. All five of the experiments strongly concluded that when an environment is in disarray, people yearn for order and hastily attempt to put information they’ve gathered from their surroundings into categories. This leads to harsher stereotypes against minority populations and higher incidence of crime. The experiments also found that people are more relaxed, open minded, and generous when their world is orderly.

When our surroundings are full of chaos — be it dirt or uncertainty — we react by seeking order, structure and predictability. Stereotypes, for all their problems, satisfy that need.

The study continues:

“The message for policy-makers is clear: One way to fight unwanted stereotyping and discrimination is to diagnose environmental disorder early and to intervene immediately by cleaning up and creating physical order. Signs of disorder such as broken windows, graffiti, and scattered litter will not only increase antisocial behaviour, they will also automatically lead to stereotyping and discrimination. Investing in repair and renovation, and preventing neighborhoods [from falling] into disarray, may be relatively inexpensive and effective ways reduce stereotyping and discrimination.”

The testing methods were very interesting, so I recommend checking out the full article for details.

(Images from Discover Magazine. Thanks to the many readers who forwarded us this article.)

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bookish links

-face names are serious contenders.

• aNobii: Multilingual Hong Kong-based book-lister with a clean design.
• Bibliophil.org: Personable. Feature-rich. Unfortunate design.
• Booktribes: Bookish social network with extremely busy pages.
• BooksWellRead: Way too many ellipses…
• Buchpfade.de: Bookish community site for German speakers.
• ChainReading: Aimed at reading addicts, but site activity doesn’t suggest an addicted user base.
• ConnectViaBooks: Socializing, rather than cataloging, is the main focus of this London-based booklover site. Some real potential here.
• Douban: Bookish community site aimed at some of the world’s 1.1 billion Chinese speakers.
• Goodreads: Simple bookish social network that emphasizes book recommendations from other users.
• GuruLib: For readers with a compulsive desire to catalog everything they own. Not pretty.
• Lib.rario.us: Media collection organizer in a precarious position.
• LibraryThing: The most established bookish community site of the bunch, with active developers. They just hired Wordie’s John McGrath and they’re encouraging people to make Chuck Close-style mosaics of themselves out of book covers. One to watch.
• Listal: Taggerific media-cataloging site with rich profiles, a surplus of content and widgets galore.
• Mediachest.com: Established media-cataloging site whose best feature may be groups.
• Reader2: As in “reader squared.” I found it difficult to browse.
• Reliwa.de: German book and music social network. Seems pretty active.
• Squirl.info: John McGrath, who created Wordie, is the co-founder of this social collection organizer, so I want to like it, but I don’t.
• Shelfari: Nicely designed bookish social network out to take out LibraryThing. They’ve got big widgets.
• ShelfCentered.com: Lists are called shelves here but you can’t begin browsing them until you register.

I guess what I really want is a combination of Wordie, Flickr and Amazon, with the book information pages of Google Book Search (maps included!) and highly customizable widgets. Is that too much to ask?