Mark Roth's Proof of Reincarnation - Scientist Bringing Back the Dead - Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/bringing-back-the-dead-1208

WOW. WOW.

wow this is an interesting idea, albeit morbid.

A service that sends out messages after you're gone.

Sounds creepy, but it worth thinking about

Death Switch allows you to send out email messages, in the case of your demise. It repeatedly contacts you, and if you don't answer within a specified time window, it triggers the 'last message' to whoever you specify.

You've now crossed the boundary into profound hypothermia. By the time your core temperature has fallen to 88 degrees, your body has abandoned the urge to warm itself by shivering. Your blood is thickening like crankcase oil in a cold engine. Your oxygen consumption, a measure of your metabolic rate, has fallen by more than a quarter...

I'm not sure if the argument is right; many people die from heart disease, but I don't think we can say that better diet and exercise would have prevented 100% of these deaths.

life philosophy

Stoicism

Congratulations! You've just outlived some interesting people. Tell us your date of birth, and we'll tell you who they were.

Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since 1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent. The editor professed great admiration for Orwell's "absolute straightforwardness, his honesty and his decency", and would be his patron throughout the 1940s. The closeness of their friendship is crucial to the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ith, an everyman for his times, continues to resonate for readers whose fears for the future are very different from those of an English writer in the mid-1940s.

Seriously, this made me cry.

holy shit I'm weeping

The definitive tell-all.

toomuch

* Genetic condition had ruined his lungs and left him unable to sing * He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic * He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted to die * He used swine flu as an excuse to avoid coming to England * He thought he was agreeing to 10 concerts – it was 50 Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Had he not been driven – by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers – to commit to the gruelling 50 concerts in London’s O2 Arena, I believe he would still be alive today. During the last weeks and months of his life, Jackson made desperate attempts to prepare for the concert series scheduled for next month – a series that would have earned millions for the singer and his entourage, but which he could never have completed, not mentally, and not physically.

Tales from the encrypt: If you care about the integrity of your data, it's time to investigate solutions for accessing and securing it – and not just for the here and now

"But what if I were killed or incapacitated before I managed to hand the passphrase over to an executor or solicitor who could use them to unlock all this stuff that will be critical to winding down my affairs – or keeping them going, in the event that I'm incapacitated? I don't want to simply hand the passphrase over to my wife, or my lawyer. Partly that's because the secrecy of a passphrase known only to one person and never written down is vastly superior to the secrecy of a passphrase that has been written down and stored in more than one place. Further, many countries's laws make it difficult or impossible for a court to order you to turn over your keys; once the passphrase is known by a third party, its security from legal attack is greatly undermined, as the law generally protects your knowledge of someone else's keys to a lesser extent than it protects your own."

Via Marignal Revolution (it has a blog)

What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz in 1825 and is now called the “Gompertz Law of human mortality.”

I hate the term 'assisted suicide'. I have witnessed the aftermath of two suicides, and as a journalist I attended far too many coroners' inquests, where I was amazed and appalled at the many ways that desperate people find to end their lives. Suicide is fear, shame, despair and grief. It is madness. Those brave souls lately seeking death abroad seem to me, on the other hand, to be gifted with a furious sanity. They have seen their future, and they don't want to be part of it.

Terry Pratchett's thoughts on assisted suicide.

Must make a copy of this.

Moving!

Sir Terry Pratchett has made an emotional plea for the right to take his own life, saying: 'I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed.'

Photographs of albatross chicks which were made on Midway Atoll. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

This is probably a really bad idea

http://picturesforsadchildren.com/blog/famous.png

RT @unclebobmartin: RT @ipreuss: breaking news: http://picturesforsadchildren.com/blog/famous.png [from http://twitter.com/pavsaund/statuses/2386607511]

passt irgendwie gerade zum aktuellen tv-geschehen....

Who'd work in rolling news, eh?

<grelli> bwahahaha: http://picturesforsadchildren.com/blog/famous.png

"People have gathered where we are pointing our cameras."

best. black friday. ever.

stampede

A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.

หนัง

If your life were a movie, what scene would you be at?

Death comes for every man, but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for the bastard. These are the men who, despite whatever terrible things they may have done in life, earned a place in our hearts with their amazingly badass deaths

philosophy

Video lectures. There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact?

Audio, video, and course materials.

PHIL 176: Death

Yele lections

RT @smashingmag: Last Day Dream - http://vimeo.com/4626809 - So sad, so strong, so powerful. [from http://twitter.com/idealic/statuses/1825634006]

42 second short film on life

42 seconds ...

Last Day Dream

Heart-warming.

Why do you get up in the morning?

on @current Starship Enterprise destroyed by the Death Star http://tinyurl.com/qjy4om [from http://twitter.com/oonceoonce/statuses/1741632760]

How did they do that? The Death Star Destroys the Starship Enterprise // Current http://ow.ly/5POq [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/1739829778]

Death Star meets the Enterprise - boo-yah! http://bit.ly/ml8mL [from http://twitter.com/dcouvering/statuses/1775187390]

Entre ellas el chocolate, el vino y el yogur, así que vamos bien.

I would love to try to get us eating this whole list once a week in our meals!

A few weeks ago I was using my flat iron and when I looked in the mirror to admire my ’do, I discovered my first gray hair (gasp!). It was the first time I was visibly confronted with the reality that, surprise, I will age, and I’m not 18 anymore no matter how good I feel.

Very cool story about ants and smells.

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GeoCities will close later this year. Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers? We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year. I'm a GeoCities customer. What's happening to my site? Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don't need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time. Will something happen to my GeoCities Free or Plus account? Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites. We'll send you more details this summer.

RT @davewiner: Yahoo: GeoCities will close later this year. http://tr.im/jxcJ [from http://twitter.com/rohitharsh/statuses/1596392118]

Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites. We'll send you more details this summer. -- I can't be the only one who's been paging through her delicious account and getting twitchy at the thought of missed geocities links going dead. ARGH. Note to self: make note of fics hosted on geocities and tag appropriately. Note to others: please to be backing your stuff up, guys, and providing links to new pages is even better.

Geocities is shutting down sometime later this year. Back-up your pages if you have anything left there, like I do. http://bit.ly/19ykHg [from http://twitter.com/sherrymain/statuses/1596677667]

check sites closing

via Cory_Arcangel

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The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the