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Morning Cup of Links: CERN and the Internet
by Miss Cellania - June 19, 2008 - 2:37 AM
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Innovations at the CERN particle accelerator may lead to superfast internet speeds -up to 10 gigabytes per second! And we were worried about a tear in the space-time continuum.
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Bankrupt! 65 Famous People Who Lost It All. Still, none of them ever had to worry about their next meal.
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Famous logos in their natural habitats. Bonus goofy discussion after the gymnastics picture.
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12 Extremely Weird Diseases and Conditions You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of. I’ve heard of most of these, but I’ve been called extremely weird myself.
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The family and a court demands that an 85-year-old ‘minimally conscious’ patient be treated as if he’s going to recover. Doctors refuse, saying further intervention is “torture” and therefore unethical. How should this be resolved?
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Bomomo is some kind of cool art toy. Learning to use it is half the fun!
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Flooding in the Midwest has destroyed huge crops of corn and soybeans. One more thing that will cause prices to skyrocket.
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Whatever happened to Muzak? Elevator music is still here, it’s just different.

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Comments (4)

  1. You guys, it’s a ribbon!

    Sad that it takes higher food prices for people on the coasts to even give a crap what happens in the middle of the country. I don’t think the catastrophic flooding alone would have gotten their attention that way. Still, perhaps the silver lining is that they may learn that the middle of the country actually serves a purpose and is not just there as an annoying span of ground for them to fly over on their cross-country flights.

    “Woodhaven gropings” Sounds creepy.

    posted by kate on 6-19-2008 at 12:30 pm

  2. Ha! Not only have I heard of most of those diseases, I have one! I have mild prosopagnosia. I recognize people by their voice and their posture/walk/gestures. Identifying people from photographs is nigh impossible for me.

    Another aspect of prosopagnosia is that I cannot guess how old someone is by looking at them.

    posted by Mary Sue on 6-19-2008 at 1:28 pm

  3. I also have one of these diseases – Addison’s disease. The article makes it sound a lot worse than it really is. It’s not like if someone came up behind me and said “boo” I would die. I’ll be on medication for the rest of my life, and I’m a little mellower than I used to be, but I don’t need people to tiptoe around me so I don’t get frightened.

    posted by Fireball on 6-19-2008 at 6:49 pm

  4. The question isn’t whether we can make the internet faster (that’s the easy part); rather, it’s whether we can make the internet faster over the existing phone and cable infrastructure.

    posted by Chad Cloman on 6-20-2008 at 2:29 am

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