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		<title>Bons Mots: Stuff White People Like</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great bons mots from Stuff White People Like]]></description>
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<p><span title="F" class="cap"><span>F</span></span>rom the always irreverent and occasionally brilliant <a href="Stuff White People Like" target="_blank">Stuff White People Like</a>:<span id="more-1035"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>most white people would love to be locked up for their beliefs provided that they could go to a jail with private toilets, plenty of books and no rape.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>New Apple MacBooks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until I can share the look and feel of the new Mac laptops with IRL passerby, here&#8217;s a quotation in its stead: as Apple&#8217;s new releases always seem to do, the new models make the old ones look like a pile of puke. New Apple MacBooks Like this post? Check out others at the archives [...]]]></description>
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<p><span title="U" class="cap"><span>U</span></span>ntil I can share the look and feel of the new Mac laptops with IRL passerby, here&#8217;s a quotation in its stead:</p>
<blockquote><p>as Apple&#8217;s new releases always seem to do, the new models make the old ones look like a pile of puke.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/10/new-apple-macbooks">New Apple MacBooks</a></p>
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		<title>Why An Exciting Book Is Just As Thrilling As A Hair-raising Movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists watched brain activity of subjects while watching short film clips that grossed them out and then also gave them. &#8220;What this means is that whether we see a movie or read a story, the same thing happens: we activate our bodily representations of what it feels like to be disgusted– and that is why [...]]]></description>
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<span title="S" class="cap"><span>S</span></span>cientists watched brain activity of subjects while watching short film clips that grossed them out and then also gave them.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;What this means is that whether we see a movie or read a story, the same thing happens: we activate our bodily representations of what it feels like to be disgusted– and that is why reading a book and viewing a movie can both make us feel as if we literally feel what the protagonist is going through.&#8221;</p>
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<p><cite><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080812213812.htm">Why An Exciting Book Is Just As Thrilling As A Hair-raising Movie</a></cite></p>
<p>Movie image by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/toasty/">Kenneth Lu</a>.  Book image by <a href="http://flickr.com/people/missturner/">Rebecca Krebs</a>.</p>
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