Resources: July 2006 Archives

D is amazing, sometimes:

I suddenly wondered what exactly happens to your brain when you do that [repeat a word over and over until it's meaningless]. Do you unhook synapses or something? Do you make it so all references to that word only relate back to itself, instead of to what the word means? I wonder whether you could force yourself to erase a memory that way

That's positively one of the neatest ideas I've encountered in ages.

Facts and figures on the Publishing Industry

"58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school."