The Secret Powers of Time

Really interesting talk and a wonderful illustratiion by cognitivemedia.

VS Ramachandran: On your mind

VS Ramachandran: How Neurons Shaped Civilizations

1 in every 5 divorces by Facebook

Now… Why am I not surprised?????

Bangalore: Social networking site Facebook, which connects old friends and allows users to make new ones online, is being blamed for an
increasing number of marital breakdowns, reports the Telegraph.

Divorce lawyers claim that the explosion in the popularity of websites such as Facebook and Bebo is tempting to people to cheat on their partners. One law firm, which specializes in divorce, claimed almost one in five petitions they processed cited Facebook.

Suspicious spouses have also used the websites to find evidence of flirting and even affairs which have led to divorce. Mark Keenan, Managing Director of Divorce-Online said, “I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook and I decided to see how prevalent it was I was really surprised to see 20 percent of all the petitions containing references to Facebook. The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to.”

Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behaviour. In fact, computer firms have even cashed in by developing software allowing suspicious spouses to electronically spy on someone’s online activities.

One 35-year-old woman even discovered her husband was divorcing her via Facebook. Conference organiser Emma Brady was distraught to read that her marriage was over when he updated his status on the site to read: “Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady.”

Around 14 million Britons are believed to regularly use social networking sites to communicate with old friends or make new ones. The popularity of the Friends Reunited website several years ago was also blamed for a surge in divorces as bored husbands and wives used it to contact old flames and first loves.

(source: SiliconIndia)

If the World were a Village

Nice way to look at things

Who rules my life

Got this email. No comments

Last night my spouse was berating me for wanting to check my
email as soon as I got home from work. “You know”, she
complained, “I think that work rules your life”.

“No dear,” I replied, “_you_ rule my life. I just prefer work.”

Ellen Degeneres’ Tulane Commencement Speech

Realling funny and inspiring in many ways…

The mood of inspiration

Signs – Worth a watch

 

Very nice. Do watch.

Dads vs. Sons

Found this is in a comment thread!!!

theXenon   says:

Sad thing is, my teenage son (16) is the one who first told me about 2G1C.
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Astra_Abolish says:

You dad’s wouldn’t know about jack shit were it not for awesome sons like us sending you all the weird things of the internet
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ext237   says:

Hey Astra: Us dad’s knew enough to invent the internet, build computers from scratch and get a job to pay for your internet access. 10 years ago you kids were entertained by playing outside. Yeah, scary huh?