Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Seneca. "One should count each day a separate life." 4:52:22 PM    Discuss

Salon has an excellent article about advertising and your brain. Finally someone puts all the pieces together!: "Why do people want to get new cars when their old ones work fine? It isn't just 'because it makes them happy.' A deeper explanation is that the brain is constantly seeking out new information and gets rewarded through these specific neural circuits when it finds it." If you are too lazy to read the whole article, here's another fave quote: "[...] Presumably this is one of the reasons it pays to place shapely young women on-screen mugging next to anything from flashy gizmos to fizzy sugar water. The pairing is arbitrary, but it engages a set of brain mechanisms that evolved originally to select mates, learn from serendipity, and remember intense experiences on which future survival might hinge." 4:28:56 PM    Discuss

U.S. stocks ended with more losses Monday, closing the book on the market's worst September since the Great Depression and the worst third quarter for the Dow industrials since 1987. 11:39:12 AM    Discuss

I admit I've been at terrible odds with the blog for the past few weeks. With the 'Adam's Family' starting 'round christmas, I desperately want to talk about the show, how we're making it, what we're going to do etc. etc. Problem is that the whole essence of the show is about our 'ordinary' every day lives. Showing me blogging about the show is kinda like inhaling your own exhaust. Since the show will (at first) only be shown in Holland, I've decided to blog about the show on my english blog, while keeping the dutch blog 'in the clear'. This is also probably where I'll drop scenes in from time to time. Anyway, cams all over the place this week in Belgium! 8:55:13 AM    Discuss

Jay Bookman: "The lure of empire is ancient and powerful, and over the millennia it has driven men to commit terrible crimes on its behalf. But with the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of the Soviet Union, a global empire was essentially laid at the feet of the United States. To the chagrin of some, we did not seize it at the time, in large part because the American people have never been comfortable with themselves as a New Rome." 8:46:09 AM    Discuss

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