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Murphy is alive and well. The power supply blew in the middle of a push to get a design out the door. Fortunately we found a cheap replacement at my electronics store of choice, NewEgg.com. Athena Power AP-P4ATX35 350W Power Supply

You don’t make sense « Life-changing things that don’t matter Came across this while researching PlumpyNut. The United States are inhabited by about 300 million people with an unemployment rate of about 5 percent. If you’re interested in the rest of the world, look up Kwashiorkor. According to Medline , Kwashiorkor is a form of malnutrition characterized by thinning hair, edema, and of course weight loss. You’ve seen the photos of emaciated babies with swollen bellies – that’s Kwashiokor. The swollen belly can be due to edema, but it often is a sign of an overtaxed liver. Death is generally from liver failure. According to the World Health Organization , the cause of Kwashiorkor is not fully understood . However, one of the main factors is a high carbohydrate, low protein diet. Carbs are cheaper than proteins, so poor people around the world are at risk for kwashiorkor. The World Health Organziation points to a diet of corn or maize as a contributing factor. Co...

This rather chilling video demonstrates through video clips and interviews that children’s programming can have a profound effect on them, from predisposing them to subliminal messages to changing their entire worldview. The depth of dark manipulation by Disney is a definite must-see for parents and professionals alike.

I think we should bring back the codpiece. Tiberon Film festival picture: Codpieces in the Stanley Kubric film A Clockwork Orange . Presidential Piece:

If you haven’t read Kay Redfield Jamison’s “ Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament ” run out and get a copy. She is a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and is bipolar herself. “I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. I believe, in short, that we are equally beholden to heart and mind, and that those who have particularly passionate temperaments and questioning minds leave the world a different place for their having been there. It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy. Intensity has its costs, of course — in pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness — but it has it...

Amazon.com: Victorinox-Swisschamp XAVT “BIG DADDY” Knife: Sports & Outdoors Hey, Girl Scout friends! Now THIS is a knife. Get one of these bad boys and you can throw away your tool chest, cutlery, fishing tackle box, and corkscrew. Oh, and fire your auto mechanic. It’s all there. I can’t help it, I love to window shop at amazon.com. I have NO idea what I was looking for when I found this. I was thinking about getting one for hubby for Christmas as a joke. What’s really strange is that as I was typing this in, hubby came in with the Hammacher catalog. They’re selling one that has every tool Victrinox ever made. It’s about 5 times the width of this (and 5 times the price) and is simply bristling with screwdrivers for hardware that most people will never even see, much less need to tighten.

Letter to a good Christian woman: I think we can all agree that consistantly objectifying women is not just wrong, it is dysfunctional. By “objectifying” I mean that the viewer isn’t concerned with the woman’s needs and desires but only with his own. This lack of empathy, when taken to extremes , is the hallmark of a sociopath or a narcissistic personality . In Muslim cultures this objectification is so ubiquitous that the women must wear burqas to protect themselves from being attacked. Displaying the female form, the clerics claim, incites sexual excitement in men and invites rape . We heard this same argument when miniskirts were popular in the US. The United States actually has a great deal more censorship than most European countries. It started with the Comstock Laws , laws that were intended to oppress women by denying them healthcare information. In Europe, casual nudity is unremarkable and nobody is inappropriately aroused by it, while in the U.S. a...