Consumers to Watch 25% More Video a Day in Five Years
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Consumption of video content is expected to rise 25% to five hours per day by 2013, compared with the four hours now watched in 2008, according to Forrester Research….
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a portrait of the doubleyoudot as a young man
by: dchly
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June 17, 2008
May 23, 2008
Woman comes back to life after rigor mortis sets in
A West Virgina woman’s heart stopped three times and was brain dead for 17 hours at a hospital. Rigor mortis had set in and the family was discussing donating her organs when she suddenly woke up….
May 22, 2008
“Smokers used to be the center of the party,” Dr. Fowler said, “but now they’ve become wallflowers.”
This graph shows groundbreaking evidence that smokers tend to quit in groups. In the past 20 years, the percentage of adult smokers in the US has fallen from 45% to 21% — these people did not quit alone.
May 18, 2008
Amanda and Her Cousin Amy, Valdese, North Carolina, USA, 1990
(catalog number 214H-143-002)
IN 1990, Peter Howe at Life magazine sent me to North Carolina to photograph a special school for children with problems. The school was a very strange place because all of the twenty or so children were in the same classroom and their problems ranged from mild behavior instability to severe schizophrenia.
Nine-year-old Amanda was the most interesting child in the class. She was my favorite child. Amanda was very intelligent and very naughty. One day I followed her home on the school bus. When the bus stopped at her house, she dashed ahead of me and ran into a nearby wooded area. I continued to follow her into the woods and eventually found her sitting in an old stuffed chair having a cigarette. She thought that I would reprimand her since I was an adult. But I said nothing.
The following Sunday, I spent the day at home with Amanda and her mother. Amanda totally controlled her mother. She constantly gave her orders and proceeded to put on her mother’s nail polish and makeup. Amanda smoked openly in front of her. Her 8-year-old cousin Amy was coming over, and she was very excited. All day long, Amanda and her cousin played like children. Every forty-five minutes or so, Amanda would take a break to have a cigarette. Her mother could say nothing; Amanda was the boss.
Just before I left, I looked for Amanda to say good-bye. I found her and Amy in the backyard. They were in a children’s inflatable pool. Amanda was taking her regular cigarette break.
May 17, 2008
Will Smith Opens Scientology School
Contains 6 Scientologists as teachers and offers “Study Tech” which was developed by L. Ron Hubbard and is used worldwide by the Church of Scientology. No longer the prince of Bel-Air, but rather a…
Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum
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Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults.
Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created…
Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water
Persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies prompted Los Angeles’s plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies.
The Allure of Crazy Girls
She has emotional baggage, a Xanax habit, and daddy issues … —yet you can’t resist her.
'Second Life' aims to become the world of tomorrow
An increasing number of people are ditching their jobs in the real world to make a living entirely online within Second Life’s virtual economy—making thousands of U.S. dollars selling designs,…
May 16, 2008
Mom Found Guilty of Cyberbullying Daughter's Ex-Friend on MySpace, Driving Girl to Suicide
Lori Drew, of O’Fallon, Missouri, is charged (.pdf) with one count of conspiracy and three violations of the anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a case involving cyberbullying through a fake MySpace profile.
Drew is one of three people who helped set up and maintain a phony MySpace account in 2006 under the identity of a nonexistent 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. The Evans account was used to flirt with and befriend 13-year-old Megan Meier, who’d had a falling-out with Drew’s daughter. The fake “Josh” ultimately turned on Meier and told the girl that the world would be a better place without her. Meier already suffered from clinical depression, and shortly after that final message she hanged herself in her bedroom.