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This is turning into an existentialist rant, Oren… :-) When I was little I used to wish for aliens to come visit me, to no avail.

Yup, you are right, here is something from former believers I just found: http://www.torontoghosts.org/finalorb.htm

Oh, I forgot to ask, for those of you who like photography, have you captured any orbs? I’ve had batches of pictures with lots of them, and I had no idea of what was associated with their presence, or how controversial the origin of that phenomenon really is.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, FTW! He was clearly ahead of his time in Media Studies and Communication.

I thought I was having the weirdest episodes for a couple of years. I would fall asleep and feel as though there was a presence hovering over me and pressing down on my body so hard that I couldn’t move at all, yet I could see and was aware of my surroundings the entire time. I also heard sounds like a small group of people whispering at my ears, which was creepy. I never mentioned this to anybody, and then one day, I am channel surfing and see a special program on Discovery Health about Sleep Paralysis. That’s what I had!—I thought, after seeing the symptoms reported by people from all over the world. Mystery solved.

It doesn’t make it any less creepy and even terrifying while it’s happening, though. I haven’t had it happen again in a few years, thankfully.

If you think you might be interested in this type of thing, there is plenty of information to go around about nightmares, and the origin of myths and legends like the incubus/succubus, etc.

Go Spain, it’s your birthday!!! That was too exciting for words. Spain, FTW! I was kind of hoping that Turkey would make it, because they were the underdogs in this tournament, but Spain now has me on their side.

Because there were only three generations of one family: the grandmother, the mother, and the daughter. The mother is also a daughter (of the grandmother above).

As somebody who is in graduate school and has had extensive internet experience, I could not disagree more. If anything, the access to knowledge and information in a learning community makes it possible for individuals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to access shared knowledge from all colours in the spectrum (be it extremely practical, applied subjects or highly theoretical quests for philosophical answers).

The way I see it, to get reliable information on the internet, you have to know what you are looking for, or at least develop a sense of discernment for what is valuable and relevant to your needs. A learning community is what members make of it (diverse and rich, I would hope), but your experience will be most rewarding if you have a starting point on what you seek. The Age of Information requires a certain level of engagement on the part of the education seeker, no matter what the background.

Very cool! Did you know there’s also an alternate ending? It has aliens. Aliens!

The guys who developed the game mentioned above were also responsible for this really cute flash game that has a crazy cult-like following:

There are several other games they have made, but the cube ones are my favourites. Same idea as that for the engineering development scenario.

Was it a plane (carrying coffins) crash where the dead bodies landed through the roof of the cabin?

Mark Bittman is a great writer; I love his How to Cook Everything books, a must in any contemporary collection (I like it better than The Joy of Cooking…)

Thanks for posting this, Wes! Love Joy Division.

I enjoy Jezebel (www.jezebel.com), especially because it shows that you can be politically-minded while enjoying popular culture and less weighty issues at the same time!

I was told I didn’t need to take French when I came to Canada, because I already had Spanish and Portuguese down. I haven’t had a chance to take French, but I would love to. I took Italian in university, and loved it. It definitely helps to know another latin language. You can never know too many languages, I say!

Unnecessary quotation marks (along with air quotes during a speech) and misused apostrophes are the bane of my existence. That is all. My own bad writing habits include using too many brackets or M-dashes, though as seen here! :)

Excellent, Erin! Thanks for the great lesson.

The Pilates mat routine (the original, not the “reinvented” versions by various people trying to cash in) is still, to me, the most time-effective way to stretch, train the core muscles, and develop overall definition. It’s especially good if you have joint or lower back pain, because the advancement is gradual and yet quite visible. Joseph Pilates knew his stuff (he beat asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever and got fit by age 14), and got to pose in his underwear to show off his muscular body until he was well into his 80s. :-)

Your best bet would be to join http://www.academicwork.ca/ where they provide postings, tips, etc.

I think you also have to look at motives. There is an intended meaning vs. an ascribed meaning, and also the culturally-sanctioned vs. anti-readings, the latter of which tend to attempt a subversion of the status quo.

A commercial artist may very well be motivated by financial incentives, or s/he may want to subtly contest what is expected of the resulting work.

Now as for the purpose, it may be either for aesthetic pleasure, wholly utilitarian, or a nice combination of both.