Did Sam’s Club Go Too Far?:

A Pittsburgh man was shopping at a Sam’s Club store in Monroeville, Pennsylvania when store security stopped him. He was told that they had been
watching him and had video tape on his activities at two other Sam’s Club stores as well as information on his buying habits. He was not allowed to
purchase the items that he had in his cart, his Sam’s Club membership card was confiscated and he was told to never set foot in any Sam’s Club or
Walmart again or else he would be prosecuted. When a reporter contacted the corporate offices of Sam’s Club to inquire about the incident, he was
told that there had been a mistake. An apology was given to the man and he was told that there would be an investigation.

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your book buying cards and supermarket discount clubs have no importance to your identity at all… right. Riiiiigggggghhhhhhhtttttttt. This is the sort of thing that you get when you sign away your identity for analysis, read your contracts.

Inside the Mind of Gloria Brame: Eclipse with bird:

Eclipse with bird

A bird sits on a tree during a solar eclipse in Islamabad…

This is the best picture i’ve seen from the eclipse…. art still lives in islamabad.

Multitasking less efficient, easier for young people:

TIME magazine covers what they call “Generation M” – M for multitasking – made up of overstimulated teenagers who constantly split their time and attention between instant messaging, Facebook, Myspace, their iPods, cell phone and blogs.

Psychologists say this kind of multitasking is easier for young adults than children or older people because of development in a certain area of the brain, and is also a lot less efficient than focusing on one task at a time.

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if human brains adapt or can be habituated to certain mental conditions, which in my experience is clearly true, within certain frameworks of capacity, then it seems clear to me that if you train a brain to multitask efficiently, it could become less efficient at other things, that is… if there is a trajectory model of adaption which is implied by limited capacities. Thoughts?

AxisofLogic/ Economy:

March 23rd is more than a normal day. A release from DownsizeDC serves as a reminder that today the Federal Reserve stops publishing a statistic known as M3 – the best information available on how much new currency is being created and held around the world. The release points out that “The Federal Reserve can create new dollars out of thin air. … When more dollars are created prices rise and the value of your savings fall.”

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isn’t this sort of like what happened in weimar germany before hyper inflation?