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Savan wrote <I>Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever</I>. Looks like a book I'll have to read.<I>Via Blog of a Book Slut.</I>

Now this is cognitive research that is interesting! When we concentrate on tasks, we switch off our awareness of self&mdash;one of those tricky areas that defines us as human in the first place.Maybe the real Turing test is what computers do when we're not working 'em so hard.

Who'd a thunk?

According to <I>The Guardian</I> and the Book Marketing Group. I'm not too big a fan of a few of the choices&mdash;<I>Fight Club</I>?BMAFG!&mdash;but I'm really happy to see the criminally under-appreciated <I>Devil In a Blue Dress</I> and <I>The Day of the Triffids</I> on there.

Asking good questions is a skill that can be taught&mdash;and should be.

Natasha Walter argues that Br&#252;hilde, not Siegfreid, is the real hero of the Ring cycle. Her proof is in the music.

The pairing has been likened to Mary Poppins and Satan. That's the easy and obvious way out, and it's a load of crap. It's much more difficult than that. They're much more similar than they are different, coming together to tell one story and filling in each other's blanks only when the reverb gets too thick. But I don't want to say any more about it. I'll now speak only of the differences I heard between listening in the office &#151; through my computer's Dell speakers &#151; and listening at home &#151; with the Musical Fidelity A3.5 system and Totem Arro speakers.