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- Tetris Wipes Out Bad Memories, Say ScientistsYesterday
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According to researchers at Oxford University, playing the popular, classic puzzle game Tetris after a traumatic experience could significantly reduce emotional scars. Apparently Tetris—which requires serious brain power on your part—blocks your brain from storing those bad memories.
Read more here.
This is awesome.
Only proves….(this is the greatest video game ever created)
What other game has an entire documentary created about it?
- "5. IT workers Although IT workers have earned a bad reputation for not understanding the plight of..."Yesterday
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“5. IT workers
Although IT workers have earned a bad reputation for not understanding the plight of the computer-illiterate worker, they aren’t the office villains some people have made them out to be. And if power is sexy, then these men and women probably outrank everyone. Whether you’re low on the totem pole or an executive, if you can’t open your e-mail account or figure out why your monitor is flickering, you call IT. In many offices, IT workers have the most lax dress code of all the departments, so you can’t help but envy them.”
-MSN Careers - 10 Sexy Careers You Never Thought Of - Career Advice Article
MSN called us sexy. Well thank you MSN. I’ll see you get a nice little increase in your personal drive this year. (Take that any way you’d like.)
- Is My Computer OnYesterday
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I just created a new website that I’m pretty happy about called Is My
Computer On. It’s a new tool that anyone can use for free as long as
they have a computer with internet access. You can use the site to
determine whether or not your computer is on and it’s easy to remember the name in case you need it in the future:
http://www.ismycomputeron.com/Let me know if anyone is having any technical difficulties or anything, I just released it today.
Can I start using this at the help desk immediately?
- NIN Rehearsal Tracks on nin.comJanuary 7
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NIN Rehearsal Tracks on nin.com:
If you follow The NIN Hotline you already know. But if not, this nice person has been adding rehearsal tracks to the mix page on nin.com
They are all of extraordinary quality and include one unreleased song. Go forth! Listen! Download! Enjoy! I know I have been.
- Some Facts about 'The Little Mermaid'January 7
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that you might not know…
- This was the last Disney animated feature to use hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work. 1,000 different colors were used on 1,100 backgrounds. Over one million drawings were done in total.
- This film was the most effects-animation heavy Disney animated feature since Fantasia (1940).
- The two minute storm sequence alone took 10 special effects animators over a year to finish.
- effects animation supervisor Mark Dindal estimated that over a million bubbles were drawn for this film
- The character of Ursula was based on Divine. Her personality and some of her actions were also largely inspired by a previous Disney villain, Madame Medusa from Disney’s The Rescuers (1977).
- Sebastian the Crab’s full name is Horatio Thelonius Ignatius Crustatious Sebastian.
- This was the first Disney film to receive an Academy Award since Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), though other films had been nominated.
- A few of the bac