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Weak link

You don't want it!

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Pokez has an combo on their menu named "13. You don't want it!"  I asked the waiter what it was, and he said, "you have to order it to find out!"  I pictured it being a $8.25 plate of bones, horse hooves, and misshapen pieces of plastic.  So I didn't order it.

Is civilization becoming more essential for survival?

A recent TED talk describes experiments where monkeys were trained to give tokens to humans in exchange for food. A physical space was created where, when monkeys entered, they were given fake money and different human "vendors" would sell the monkeys different amounts of food for a token.

Fast, Low Memory Drupal 5 System Module

A Drupal 6 version of this module is also available

A drop-in replacement for the system.module of Drupal 5.23 which makes your Drupal 5 site use less memory and may even make it faster. The one test that I ran suggested that I got:

Extracting vanilla

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An attempt at extracting vanilla from a vanilla bean with vodka. The initial pre-split state of the vanilla bean:

Trade is ten times as old as farming

A talk about choice by Sheena S. Iyengar

A provocative talk about choice, though some of the research sounds pretty hand-wavy:

Notes from Cook's Illustrated issue number ninety-seven

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Notes from Cook's Illustrated issue #97 (March and April 2009):

Chinese man survives being impaled with steel pole

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