Vote Match

"A quick and simple tool for finding out where the parties stand in the 2009 European elections."

http://www.votematch.co.uk/europe/

Brighten up a working place

"Some interesting examples of how effective an artist can be to create an illusion..."

http://www.signspro.com/eric-art/

Memory and Fear

"Thus each time we bring a memory to mind, we adjust its very chemistry: the next time we retrieve it, that memory will come up as we last modified it. The specifics of the new consolidation depend on what we learn as we recall it. If we merely have a flare-up of the same fear, we deepen our fearfulness.

"But, ... if at the time of the fear we tell ourselves something that eases its grip, then the same memory becomes reencoded with less power over us. Gradually, we can bring the once-feared memory to mind without feeling the rush of distress all over again. In such a case, says LeDoux, the cells in our amygdala reprogram so that we lose the original fear conditioning. One goal of therapy, then, can be seen as gradually altering the neurons for learned fear."

Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence, Bantam, Copyright 2006, pp. 78-79.

http://www.delanceyplace.com

Morality and Emotions

"It's only after the emotions have already made the moral decision that those rational circuits in the prefrontal cortex are activated. People come up with persuasive reasons to justify their moral intuition. When it comes to making ethical decisions, human rationality isn't a scientist, it's a lawyer. This inner attorney gathers bits of evidence, post hoc justifications, and pithy rhetoric in order to make the automatic reaction seem reasonable. But this reasonableness is just a facade, an elaborate self-delusion. Benjamin Franklin said it best in his autobiography: 'So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.'"

Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide, Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, Copyright 2009 by Jonah Lehrer, Kindle Loc. 1922-79.


http://www.delanceyplace.com

Tweets by time of day and day of week

http://xefer.com/twitter/

Binary File to Base64 Encoder / Translator

"Use this tool to create data streams for embedding images (or any type of file) in (X)HTML, CSS and XML. "

http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/binary2base64


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