Yesterday’s evil mood passed, as it always does. I wish I could simply accept that: but how can I trust today’s good cheer, when my life is in no better shape than it was yesterday?

Well, anyway. I am reminded of my ignorance with respect to gall and its bladders. Will Dad now be less choleric, or more?

Well, I’d hate to see the Googlebombing fad go by without getting in on it, so here goes: Scientology, Scientology, Scientology, Scientology, Scientology. (A couple of these were down when I last looked.)

Research Shows Just How Much People Hate A Winner. This is scary: pointless envy is stronger than economists expected. (Full paper)

Some of my libertarian dogma may need rebuilding.

Tom the Dancing Bug: Why Johnny Joins the Taliban. Link relayed by an Awaiter who commented, “it’s pathetic that anyone even has to point this out.” Funny, tho.

Many years later: Newer link.

David Weinberger (JOHO) reports on the Technology Entertainment & Design conference.
Here’s something personally interesting:

Steven Petranik, editor of Discover magazine, ticked off his Top Ten list of ways the world could end suddenly:

10. Failure to address the worldwide epidemic of depression . . .

Hm. Epidemic, eh? That implies that, for a change, I’m part of a significant market demographic or whatever the appropriate buzzwords are. Maybe there’s hope after all.

Speaking of depression, is the Youth Suicide by Firearms Task Force respectable? It cites that slob Kellerman[n] a couple of times, and the group’s name makes me suspicious (why not youth suicide in general?); on the other hand, they seem to emphasize safe storage and the like rather than abolition.

Er, but enough about me. Go read that TED report instead.