Friday, 17 September 2010

As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years—some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today—efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the condition in childhood. But children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. And his long, happy, surprising life may hold some answers.

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Estate agent showed house as owner lay dead on couch

Pigeon flies past broadband in data speed race

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alqaeda Just noticed Twitter keeps prompting me to "Add a location to your tweets". Not falling for that one.

Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8

Various - Wilco: Spins The Numero Group (2010)

"We like Wilco a lot. We like that they're mining the future as much as we're mining the past. We like that we're Chicago boys. We like that our kids play with their kids. We like that they have an insane collection of guitars. And we like that they like records the way we like records. That is, we both capitol-L-Love records. So when the opportunity arose to introduce our audience to their audience at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival, we were all about that. We spin, they play, all is right with the world.But then we thought: what if we turned the turntables? What would Wilco spin if they could spin us? Idea: give each member of the band access to our entire catalog and ask them to pick a few of their favorite tracks. Here's the result: The Numero Group as seen through the ears of Wilco. Seventeen tracks from the over forty records we've compiled in the last seven years. From us, to you, and for free, yet. We have no plans to start a band, by the way." - Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley/The Numero Group

01. Arlean Brown - I Am A Streaker
02. Four Mints - In A Rut
03. OFS Unlimited - Mystic
04. Boot Hill - No Control
05. Propinquity - Sea Song
06. Jim Ohlschmidt - The Delta Freeze
07. Caroline Peyton - Call Of The Wild
08. Chocolate Snow - Inflation
09. Ames Harris Desert Water Bag Co. - People
10. 5 Spiritual Tones - Bad Situation.
11. Elijah & The Ebonites - Pure Soul
12. The Performers - Mini Skirt
13. Betty Wright - Mr. Lucky
14. Bobby Cooke Quartet - Ridin' High
15. Stormy - The Devastator
16. Tonistics - Dimona
17. Final Solution - Where There's A Will

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Thursday, 16 September 2010

"I love the Pope. I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action..." - Bill Hicks

Stephen Fry

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British Humanist Association Reacts to Pope's first remarks on state visit

WTF??? Hitler Youth pope aligns atheists with nazis!!!

"...Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime’s attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny” (Caritas in Veritate, 29).,,"