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This article actually makes a lot of sense to me: http://www.infowars.com/is-the-internet-911-under-way/

I remember reading this article while back: "Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians". http://www.physorg.com/news117283969.html

So now when I'm in a jam, I just slow down instead of engaging the speedup, break pattern. Haven't looked behind me though to see if I had any effect on the traffic behind me.

Here are a couple of things I've tried that work:

-Try using a pen or your finger to guide your eyes through the words in a line with a uniform speed. This will prevent your eyes to slow down at certain words.

-Try using a "L" shaped piece of paper to guide you through the words, and to prevent the previous word to be shown. This will prevent the unconscious backtracking of the eyes.

-Stop pronouncing the words your read in your mind. Try keeping a 'hmmmm' voice in your head to prevent vocalization.

While I found these techniques useful, I do not use them while reading the things I enjoy. I use them usualy just to skim over articles and comments to get to the important parts, and to avoid the bulk.

The article forgot to mention one important point. The option to install another OS on PS3 only disappears if the firmware is updated to the latest version. And to my knowledge, I see no reason why these computing farms should update. They need no PSN access and updates bring no new benefits to the installed OS. New PS3 slim models are already missing that option out of the box.

Does anyone know how many information gets shared with third parties if your fb account is just disabled and not deleted?

They're actually offering 1 week of (free) coding skills to anyone with a good idea. But it seems like the offer stands only for techcrunch readers.

Maybe you're just struggling with perfectionism or with fear of failure. I often find myself doing this when making music. I always try to make everything just like I see/hear it in my head, and if it comes short, I usually just scrap it or leave it. The good recipe for this would be, good is perfect enough. And you need to know when to admit to yourself that this is as best as you can do and move on. Same thing with programming. I ofter start thinking how would I go about solving a problem elegantly. If this takes too much time, I just go with a 'ugly' solution. I have to, or I wouldn't get much done.

I will tell you about my experience some time after watching a 3d film which I won't mention... It started with normal films on my lcd. I could see the difference, as if I could somehow sense the depth of 2d movie in a way I couldn't before. This happened also with one 2d drawn betting chip with some shading that I was cropping at work. One more item that gave the same feeling was the hologram sticker on a nokia battery, I could never tell what was the big fuss about hologram stickers, as I could never see the hologram in 3d before, it was always just a smudge. These symptoms have ceased after some time, but I can still see the hologram in '3d', the way I couldn't before. It's nice to read that these symptoms can exist, now I know it wasn't all just in my mind...

Now if someone could just make the untoxic version of this taste like cheese...

I'm not a christian or anything, but naming something derived from the word hell seems bad karma to me. I'm sure it's going to get hella of a lot laughs at first. But isn't there a scientist they could name it after?

The longest I was without internet was for about 10 days. I didn't miss it at all. I was visiting my relatives in Serbia. The thing is, I had all these activities laid out for me there, like visiting people, going on a food market, building etc., so I think it would be harder to stay offline while being at home. It's even worse when I think that most of my hobbies and work are computer related (web dev, fl studio via midi keys, writing...). I guess it's better to focus on more important things than just staying up to date. Well i too am making slow progress, I had my FB account disabled for a year now, i just check it once a month and then disable it quickly because I quickly remember how boring it is. My tumblr and twitter account password have been changed to obscure passwords, so that I cant login that easily (have to use password recovery). It's been a month now since i've logged in... And I've erased every single feed from my google reader and Now i'm using just plain ol' bookmarks so I check up only on a few of the important sites. I've also done a jetpack plugin for myself to see how many times i've visited a particular site that day. The count shows up in each firefox tab.Because it's easy to go in circles without knowing it...