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http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi: Jun 5, 4:29am 2 reviews
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi; I'm always looking up biographies of people, this will help.

The Great Forgetting - New York Times: Apr 12, 4:22pm 1 review family
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/opinion/11brooks.html?em&ex=1208145600&en=4...; From the page: "The Great Forgetting

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By DAVID BROOKS
Published: April 11, 2008

They say the 21st century is going to be the Asian Century, but, of course, itā€s going to be the Bad Memory Century. Already, you go to dinner parties and the middle-aged high achievers talk more about how bad their memories are than about real estate. Already, the information acceleration syndrome means that more data is coursing through everybodyā€s brains, but less of it actually sticks. Itā€s become like a badge of a frenetic, stressful life ā€" to have forgotten what you did last Saturday night, and through all of junior high."

Results and comments - matousec.com: Mar 20, 3:03pm 3 reviews spyware, internet-security, virus, hackers
http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php; From the page: "Firewalls' ratings

The table below sorts the tested firewalls by their total score. This table also shows the exact version of every tested product. The PDF document icon allows you to download the testing report in PDF format for the tested product. "

When standards aint standards - Perspectives - Opinion - Technology: Mar 12, 2:22pm 1 review windows
http://www.smh.com.au/news/perspectives/when-standards-aint-standards/2008/03...; When standards ain't standards, (MS) Office 2007.

Middle East Report Online: The Intimate History of Collaboration: Arab Citizens …: Mar 11, 1:49am 1 review politics, war, palestinians, isarel
http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/di-capua_interv.html; From the page: "The Intimate History of Collaboration: Arab Citizens and the State of Israel"
Sometime in the late 1990s, employees in the Israeli State Archive unintentionally declassified an array of police documents. Many of the files consisted of the unremarkable personal data of prostitutes, petty thieves and black marketeers, but others dealt with a far more sensitive matter: the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. Though these "Arab files" also contained records of mundane criminal cases, most of the documents concerned the politically explosive subject of Palestinian Arab collaboration with the Jewish state. By means of the mistaken declassification, the actions, methods and goals of multiple Israeli security agencies among the Palestinian Arabs of Israel -- in short, the entire history of two decades of espionage directed at a group of Israeli citizens -- lay exposed. At the heart of these documents was detailed information about individuals and families and the well-guarded secrets of what they "gave" and what they "got" in return. Many retired collaborators are still alive.

Middle East Report Online: In Annapolis, Conflict by Other Means by Robert Blech…: Mar 11, 1:38am 1 review politics, war, mid-east, occupation
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero112607.html; From the page: "the Bush administration intends to create the semblance of a ā€oepeace processā€¯ between Israel and the Palestinians for the first time since it assumed office. There is excitement in Palestinian towns about the urban order newly emerging from years of chaos; there is a willingness to play by the rules even as many remain convinced that doing so will not get them very far; and, lastly, there is the reality that when the waiting grows tiresome, people will again take matters into their own hands. As for the Annapolis meeting itself, it is being greeted with indifference, with few believing it will lead to either meaningful change in their daily lives or substantive progress toward the end of an Israeli occupation now in its fifth decade."

Middle East Report Online: Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism by Darryl…: Feb 16, 5:45pm 1 review sociology
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero021608.html; In mid-January, when Israel further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip, it hurriedly assured the world that a "humanitarian crisis" would not be allowed to occur. Case in point: Days after the intensified siege prompted Hamas to breach the Gaza-Egypt border and Palestinians to pour into Egypt in search of supplies, Israel announced plans to send in thousands of animal vaccines to prevent possible outbreaks of avian flu and other epidemics due to livestock and birds entering Gaza from Egypt.[1] Medicines for human beings, on the other hand, are among the supplies that are barely trickling in to Gaza now that the border has been resealed.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprison…: Feb 3, 4:24am 229 reviews psychology
http://www.prisonexp.org/; From the page: "A Simulation Study of the
Psychology of Imprisonment
Conducted at Stanford University"
It does warrant further study. Deeply disturbing, frightening. Are prisons just universities for criminals? It reminds me of the other famous experiment where subjects were urged to give greater and greater electric shocks to their victims. They did so at the request of authority, even though they believed they were causing severe pain to those receiving the electric shocks.