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Love and Limerence "Tennov's central argument, illustrated with accounts from individual experience, is that there is a well defined and involuntary state "limerence" (a term chosen to avoid the confusion surrounding "love"), roughly equating with "being in love". Key features include obsessive thinking about the limerent object, irrationally positive evaluation of their attributes, emotional dependency, and longing for reciprocation. Not all people experience limerence, but it is a normal and non-pathological condition. The negative side of limerence is apparent in the effects of unrequited limerence and the problems limerent behaviour can pose the non-limerent."

Bedroom Fighter Series.

[three times the fun] - Neverending ski-slope. Which immediately makes me think of calvin's dad showing him the differing speeds on the circumference of a rotating record; and of the joke about the irishman, the genie, and the glass of neverending whiskey.

[listening] - The Droplift Project "Manufacture our own CDs, go into chain stores, and leave them in the appropriate bins. Down among the established pop hits and top 40 product, these CDs await those curious few who take them to the counter." Some marvellous [free, downloadable] tracks for fans of sampling/mixing/collaging/turntablism..

The Nature of Reality '"To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are continually being thrust upon them."' - G Spencer Brown

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noodles, cycloids and squircles all the way down.

[painter] - Guggenheim Collection - Kandinsky. after which, you can Google Image Search: kandinsky for wallpaper sized copies. damn i love google.

"I feel an irresistible desire to wander, and go to Japan, where I will pass my youth, sitting under an almond tree, drinking almond tea out of a blue cup, and looking at a landscape without perspective" - Oscar Wilde (1882)

[anagram] - So if power corrupts, how does one give the people power without giving the people power? comedycar.
thanK doG for the internet. source of real life humour and despair.

[important] - September 11 Attacks - Evidence of U.S. Collusion [austin.indymedia.org] "The primary aim of this article is not to present significant new research, but to draw all known evidence together as a summary in a single article."
Brief summary at top.
oh, and the Information Awareness Office is now watching you.

I am OSCAR.
Which Sesame Street Character Are You?
[yes, i'm having a blogdex moment]

[dubya] - some of these are disturbingly well done. GeorgeWGirls.

[typography] - The Alphabet Synthesis Machine

Hiphop Map

[flash] - pong, nuskool stylee!

Heinz launches chocolate fries - Feb. 11, 2002 This pushes even my boundaries of taste.

[eyecandy] - PictoOrphanage

Adbusters: Corporate Flag.

alexmassie.com : past lives. "The problem with America is that it worships a carpenter."

Ftrain. "He is keeping me calm, giving me this sense that men, if they are serious about life, grow into something useful, thoughtful, humble."

[music] - Muslimgauze. epitonic has some good content of otherwise-scattered bands. bios, samples and suggestions abound. And their Genre Walkthroughs are well-done and addictive.
I'm bathing in the dreamy rhetoric of reviews.

[wine]

[headphones & mp3s] - The EarthEar Catalog.

[music] - PIXELSURGEON interview : the beta band

[photography portfolio] - Tartaglione

[ :) ] - . gloriousday .

[poli] - AlterNet -- SOLOMON: Ashcroft's Media Scam