New Life Lodge
Alumni Association
P.O. Box 430
Burns, TN 37029

To Whom It May Concern,

Please accept this donation offered in memory of our friend Brad Blines. Brad was a part of our online community, called MemeStreams. One of the features of this community is that it tracks the popularity of the posts members make to it. Out of some 800 members, there are only three people in the community who have a higher popularity score then Brad, and they are the people who created the software the community runs on. This fact should illustrate the significant impact that Brad has had on our lives. We owe many smiles and laughs to his posts and comments over the past year. His presence will be missed by all of us.

Sincerely,
Tom & Marie Cross

For CrankyMessiah...

] "We can easily distort memories for the details of an
] event that you did experience," says Loftus. "And we
] can also go so far as to plant entirely false memories
] - we call them rich false memories because they are so
] detailed and so big."

I read the book that was coauthored by Elizabeth Loftus "The Myth of Repressed Memory" in my Science vrs Pseudoscience philosophy class that I took in college. I must say, it was a pretty interesting, as well as disturbing book to read. While reading it, you begin to wonder if your memories are really correct or not - and I recommend the book if you are interested in the subject, although the focus is on people "remembering" sexual abuse.

Guardian Unlimited | Life | 'We can implant entirely false memories'

] Explore one of the newest frontiers in science - DNA
] mapping. From science labs to courtrooms, few discoveries
] are as exciting as the world of DNA. With this deluxe,
] first-of-its-kind kit, you can extract, view and map real
] DNA yourself. Ideal for budding forensic-scientists or
] secret agents, the working lab and tools are just like
] the real thing. Plus, you'll have all the supplies needed
] for six fascinating DNA experiments. Extract DNA from
] vegetables, find out what actually makes ink colors and
] even grow crystal stalagmites!

Its all fun and games until some kid drinks the mutagen.

cool - nano

Discovery DNA Explorer Kit

] Beginning next summer, a tiny bio-chip developed at UC
] Berkeley will help researchers in Nicaragua understand
] and screen for a tropical disease that incapacitates as
] many as 100 million people each year.

Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering

Please keep in mind that these are static jpgs...
Hold onto your seat...

good god, that sure does mess with my eyes *squint* *squint* :) - Nano

Freak out man!!!

] For all they share economically and culturally, Canada
] and the United States are increasingly at odds on basic
] social policies -- to the point that at least a few
] discontented Americans are planning to move north and try
] their neighbors' way of life.

CNN.com - Dismayed Americans contemplate Canada - Jul. 19, 2003

] ATHF is an animated television masterpiece that
] captures the day to day lives of three fast food
] (literally...) detectives and follows them through
] their misadventures as they try and solve the
] hilarious mysteries presented to them in Southern
] New Jersey. 

This show kicks ass....its hilarious. Check it out.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

] You no longer expect your grandchildren to live the same
] lives that you did, and your lives are very different
] from your parents lives. Today theres an axiom that the
] only constant is change. But what people dont recognize
] is that the world itself has changed because the greater
] change is accelerating. So our whole concept of what it
] means to be human is going to be changing, and it is
] going to be merging with our technology.

In these slow times a reminder of the sort of thinking that drove the technology community 10 years ago is work having. This is a sort interview with Ray Kurzweil.

[IP] Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

] A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly
] show water travelling up each of them before it pours off
] the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next
] ramp.
]
] It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably
] the most memorable image of this year's show.
]
] Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch
] artist MC Escher (he of Gothic palaces where soldiers are
] eternally walking upstairs, and of patterns where birds
] turn into fish).

Ummmm....I want one of these

BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?

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