Links for ths Post include embedded video below plus: Mind Flex Like Basketball for Your Mind on Gizmodo Odball Gadgets: Mattel Mind Flex by Melissa Perenso on PC World Video: Mattel Mind Flex hands (and heads) on Engadget The Mattel toy company (which is also releasing its 50th Anniversary Barbie D...

VMars bitterness: Behold my icon of h8r-ness. It shall always and forever be my icon of h8. See, once upon a time I watched this really great show called Veronica Mars. Perhaps you've heard of it? It had a mystery, and clues, and it seemed as if it would have a logical ending to an excellent first s...

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna Huffington Sunday Roundup July 20, 2008, Huffington Post In addi...

Note: Clicking on the picture does not start a video, it takes you to the University of Texas at Austin Page where you can watch the video. Links for this Post: Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview. Transcript of the Interview Mike Wallace interviewed a wide ranging selection of the most ...

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you ea...

Reaper Oh, My Sock: Cancun Please don't walk around dropping anvils on Sam to see if he dies. "What does it look like to you?" "Unicorn fighting a werewolf." ... "Dead Gay Steve? Steve fighting a unicorn?" Sock! Don't be a bad boyfriend! Don't be that guy! Stop dreaming about zebras! "She'll be back...

Link for this Post: A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle By Benedict Carey in the New York Times My mother read this article about Albert Hofmann and his legacy, LSD. Here is a snip from the piece: Dr. Hofmann’s child was no hustler from a shotgun lab in Tijuana, after all, but a bo...

Links for this Post: Disapproval Of Bush Breaks Record -- USA Today Obama Maintains National Lead -- Gallup Daily Two stories about the ratings of three polticians in the Gallup Poll caught my eye today. The stories might seem somewhat unconnected yet a freeze frame in the trajectory of each of thes...

Links for this Post: In the text My memory of what I was doing on the day Martin Luther King was murdered  forty years ago today is vivid. I was going to college at California State University Northridge, back then known as Valley State College. I was a member of the Students for a Democratic S...

Link for this post: The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - by Frank Rich in the New York Times. This op-ed in today's New York Times draws some amusing caricatures of the two white candidates left in this year's Presidential Race. Here is an excerpt which beings shortly after the beginning of t...