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	Wednesday, 2 October 2002

Madison Avenue and your brain. New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on. [Salon.com] 11:42:24 AM

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You have to love the many levels of government! San Francisco Chronicle. From the San Francisco Chronicle: Two days after Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill legalizing the use of the electric Segway Scooter on California sidewalks, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly introduced legislation that would ban the two-wheelers in the city. [Paul Boutin] 11:29:53 AM

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Happy birthday, Leni Riefenstahl. Hitler's favorite filmmaker turns 100 -- and still says she didn't do anything wrong. [Salon.com] 11:23:07 AM

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Theodore Roosevelt. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 10:58:49 AM

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Contact lenses increase "pulling" power. Contact wearers were three times more likely to hug, four times more likely to kiss and six times more likely to "fondle" than glasses wearers. Of course, when you look into the fine print, you discover that the study was funded by Novartis, a company that makes contact lenses so you had better read the conclusions with that in mind... More details at the University of Warwick [David Harris: Science news] 10:54:45 AM

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Oh yeah! "My problem is reconciling my net income with my gross habits." -Erroll Flynn [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 3:28:20 AM

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The New York Times asks Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?. The last sightings of Osama bin Laden of which his pursuers can be reasonably certain were in the White Mountains of southeastern Afghanistan. By John F. Burns. [New York Times: International] 3:24:17 AM

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Ditto this one! Goldberg 2.3: free QuickTime viewer/editor [The Macintosh News Network] 3:16:18 AM

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Storm Music Studio 2.0: audio creation app Sounds good; OSX, not too expensive. [The Macintosh News Network] 3:11:52 AM

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I think this is so important. Dave has been on about this for years. Watson author talks Apple developer relations [The Macintosh News Network] 3:03:39 AM

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Seneca. "One should count each day a separate life." [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 2:56:38 AM

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