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[Alphaville Herald] Alphaville Herald : Mony Mayfly: A Story of Addiction: I have learned from them, enjoyed silly nonsensical excursions with them, spent hours in philosophical and intellectual exchange of ideas and opinions with them, and I value their friendship, looking forward to their visits, feeling delight when I find them "online" and eager to go play about in some new-found place or attraction, and I find nothing "unhealthy"

[pacifichighschool.net] Remembering David Berger: Dean Farwood | pacifichighschool.net: The focal point of the living room was a table on which which was placed a three-part folded board on which were mounted photographs of David””a triptych of his life: black and white 4X4s of his infancy””the 1950s, a round-faced, smiling boy with his older brother (now dead), his mother (now dead), the 1960s transition from black and white to color, self-conscious teen poses, his wispy mustache of the 1970s, handsome in the 1980s with his hair and beard trimmed, wearing glasses in a characteristic pose at a dining table leaning on an elbow and not removing his chin from his cupped palm as he turns back towards the lens, playing with his infant nephew on the floor in that very familiar crossleged, rounded shoulders, energetic position which he used to comfort and restrain himself, the early 1990s when his smile is artificial.

[Progress Daily] Progress Daily » Blog Archive » Addiction: (It isn’t yet clear whether the absence of GABA is a cause of addiction or a result.) The seizure medication topiramate, for example, works on both GABA and glutamate and has helped some alcoholics in initial trials quit or cut back on their drinking. The muscle relaxant baclofen, which essentially mimics the effects of GABA, may also help some cocaine addicts quit.

[By Design] 3d Dinosaur Games : By Design: Raise the Red Lantern: Striking check out the life of a youthful concubine in 19208 China, as university-informed gal Gong Li is sent to feudal nobleman’s palatial home to become his latest spouse. The relations between her and her predecessors, all of whom live on the premises–and the interaction amid the ladies, the servants, and their master are brilliantly played out.

[Click Nothing] Click Nothing: Ethical Decision Making: If the player spares a minor villain in the first game and makes them see the error of their ways, and the villain then appears as a secret recruitable character in the sequel, having reformed themselves and taken the character's words to heart, the choice of whether to spare the villain in the first game becomes more meaningful. If the alternative, killing the villain, and receiving a powerful weapon as a reward, makes that weapon available in the second game as an heirloom, we make the choice even more meaningful, in that it has very long-term consequences (and this system can be touted as a feature to encourage people who didn't buy the first game to buy it, or it can be a feature that can only be unlocked once per disk, serving as both a pseudo-DRM and a means to encourage people to buy the game first-hand, instead of second hand).

[The Sandbox] IEEE Spectrum: Kiddie Addicts: Game makers *have to* design a compelling experience to attract gamers. Most of the RTS, RPG and FPS games do have anytime saves.

[SFWA] Turkey City Lexicon - A Primer for SF Workshops: In science fiction’s best-known workshop, Clarion, would-be writers are wrenched from home and hearth and pitilessly blitzed for six weeks by professional SF writers, who serve as creative-writing gurus. Thanks to the seminal efforts of Robin Wilson, would-be sf writers can receive actual academic credit for this experience.

[Mike Luckovich from Creators Syndicate] Sports Betting can Lead to Compulsive Gambling Problem by Dr ...: Do artificial sweeteners help lose weight? Some nutrition experts feel that people who use artificial sweeteners may be providing themselves with a false sense of security when snacking.

[Culture of Life News] The Banking Collapse Is A Moral Collapse « Culture of Life News: The Royal Canadian Mint is withholding employee bonus pay as special auditors enter a fourth month hunting for unaccounted gold that insiders say could be worth as much as several million dollars.

[Hollywood and Fine Reviews] Hollywood and Fine Reviews » Blog Archive » 'Moon': No soft landings: The ship's computer (voiced by Kevin Spacey) tries to talk him out of the compulsion he feels to go inspect the machine. There he finds the crashed rover, with an injured astronaut inside.

[Challies Dot Com] Don't Take Your iPod to Church! (Part 1.5) :: technology :: A ...: The best medicine to keep laziness, idolatry, and any other sin from entering the heart and entering our churches, is not legalism based on man-made dos and don’ts but earnest humility and repentance. You can’t change the young adult who insists on having the latest gadgets at his disposal, even in church - but you can make it a habit to pray for him that his heart will belong to God.

[That'SLife] That'SLife » Blog Archive » SLEducate Them: Lately I do not need to escape boredom: I would really like to have some nice boredom to rest a bit this year, and do all those things that people who are never bored, live a very fulfilled life and never experiment frustration do: watch TV, do compulsive shopping, read gossip magazines or the last written-on-commission best seller, etc. Instead I chat with my Indonesian, Catalan, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, English, Australian friends, experiment with script, learn many new things every day, visit interesting places, attend an course for teachers funded by the EU, organise activities for those who want to improve their Italian…

[Motherlode] Choosing the BlackBerry or the Ballgame - Motherlode Blog ...: April 3, 2009 4:11 pm Link. As a college student who just finished writing an undergraduate thesis, .

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