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I love my monster.com job updates, not because I am looking for a job right now, but because of things like this.

I'm glad they don't just passively reject the transactional staffing industry paradigm. But couldn't they do so proactively? It's great that they can handle projects of varied size and scope, too. The companies with the fixed size and scope are awfully weird. And I knew about globalization, but when did the economy become project--based? I thought it was all about shit like steel, and wheat, and oil, and the value of the Euro.

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Gang of Four paid me for buying their CD.

End of an Era

Thanks, Gene, for all the help you gave to the hobby.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69133,00.html

Now that everything's going APCO25, radio scanning as a hobby is headed for death. Incidentally, so is citizen monitoring of public safety transmissions, which has been part of the open tradition of American radio my whole life.

Also, leeches.

Talking to my psychiatrist yesterday, I told him about the neurofeedback I was going for. Of course I have a skeptical attitude; it seems very pie-in-the-sky. I told him my brother's joke about cures due to magnetism: "Magnets are so smart and obliging. No matter what the situation, they always know how to do the right thing!"

He agreed, but he also agreed that there's useful research and good results in some previously crazy areas. Not only is neurofeedback proving increasingly useful, but this insane thing where they implant an electrical stimulus attached to the vagus nerve has been dramatically successful in intractable depression. Yes, stimulating a big nerve, zap zap.

To make things even weirder, there are some promising results from attaching big fucking electromagnets to the skull. Hello, Mesmer!

Anyway I'm off to my phrenologist's.

So ask yourself today: Could I have elm blight?

Eli Lilly & Company were kind enough to put this brochure in my doctor's office. Actually, what they did was fund the University of Michigan who did it. It has things all over it saying how approved by all doctors it is, etc.

As you'll see it consists of wan, blurry folk-art people wondering if they might have depression or if their medical problems might be getting worse due to depression. The message is "you quite likely have depression even if you think you don't". The best part, I think, is the series of scripts for convincing your doctor that you need treatment.

Faux naive iconography and suspect language behind the cut:

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Guruphiliac on "Ramtha"

Imagine paying someone hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars to have monkeys throw excrement into your hot tub. Now imagine that hot tub is your mind.

cakes of my childhood soon to be reborn

French's Cupcake Bakery says they're reopening next week! HURRAY! (They are recovering from a catastrophic fire.)