Links for Thursday, January 29, 2009

by Adam Kuban

  • DIA Conspiracies Take Off
    Westword: "And over the past two years, DIA has been the subject of books, articles, documentaries, radio interviews and countless YouTube and forum board postings, all attempting to unlock its mysteries. While the most extreme claim maintains that a massive underground facility exists below the airport where an alien race of reptilian humanoids feeds on missing children while awaiting the date of government-sponsored rapture, all of the assorted theories share a common thread: The key to decoding the truth about DIA and the sinister forces that control our reality is contained within the two Tanguma murals, 'In Peace and Harmony With Nature' and 'The Children of the World Dream of Peace.'"
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  • Remember Everything: Evernote Corporation
    Evernote looks pretty powerful and seems intriguing, but I'm not sure if I need it quite yet. Still filing it away here so I can remember it at some point in the future.
    Delicious tags: Evernote Web2.0 apps productivity
  • Too Many Online Friends? Time to Delete – NYTimes.com
    New York Times: "While some people prefer the term “defriending,” a quick survey of user-created groups on Facebook shows “unfriending” to be the more popular choice. A Facebook spokeswoman, Brandee Barker, said there was no officially preferred term.)(While some people prefer the term “defriending,” a quick survey of user-created groups on Facebook shows “unfriending” to be the more popular choice. A Facebook spokeswoman, Brandee Barker, said there was no officially preferred term."
    Delicious tags: Facebook social-networking NYT
  • Sleeping on the job
    Participant profile: Women aged between 18 and 40 who are willing to come and sleep at the Museum during its opening hours to the public…. ¶ The New Museum will cover the cost of a visit to each participant’s regular doctor as well as a prescription for a sleeping aid. Participants will have to come to the museum by 11:45 am, consume a sleeping aid, get into a bed installed in the exhibition space, and sleep as many consecutive hours as possible.
    Delicious tags: TheNewMuseum museums art sleep weirdness