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Morning Cup of Links: Entrances to Hell
by Miss Cellania - October 17, 2008 - 2:15 AM
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The Stories Behind Three More Horror Classics. More than you ever needed to know about The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Poltergeist.
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A little boy gets excited about a shipment of lobsters. And he doesn’t even know how expensive they are!
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The AIDS pandemic in Africa is leaving an entire generation of children without parents. Over a quarter million in Kenya are living on the streets, getting high on inhalants.
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Test your reaction time. My average was 0.291 seconds. I bet you can do better.
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Entrances to Hell. Submit yours if you have one.
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Having both love and sexual desire is nice, but according to this study they don’t often correlate. Bonus: learn the separate body language cues for each.
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DIY Halloween Decorations. They’re always better than the store-bought kind!

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Comments (10)

  1. Oh yea, love the reaction time exercise.

    .217 average

    posted by KJ on 10-17-2008 at 8:12 am

  2. .237

    posted by julia on 10-17-2008 at 8:41 am

  3. .2
    Maybe I have an unfair advantage, though, because I used to work in a psych lab where we did this type of reaction test with subjects. I’m sure that there’s some sort of practice effect, even with reaction tests.

    posted by james on 10-17-2008 at 10:39 am

  4. .191

    posted by antonio on 10-17-2008 at 10:40 am

  5. .183 on second try. i play lots of video games

    posted by antonio on 10-17-2008 at 10:42 am

  6. .199

    posted by That's Fast! on 10-17-2008 at 10:43 am

  7. Wow you guys are fast! I got .212…

    posted by CK on 10-17-2008 at 3:32 pm

  8. 0.175!

    posted by RT on 10-17-2008 at 5:32 pm

  9. Hmmmm….i tried it a few times after my .175 and my reaction time seemed to get slower each time i played: .198, .202, .213. I guess I was just lucky the first time.

    posted by RT on 10-17-2008 at 5:37 pm

  10. .228 Not bad for 70+ years old plus being on my third double Scotch. Was born Jan 31, 1938

    appearing diffk

    posted by Ken on 10-19-2008 at 5:01 pm

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