links for 2007-07-05

Print this before you start spending time in Second Life, it’ll make your life a lot easier!

“Researchers are developing methods to dampen or wipe out specific memories.” (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind anyone?)

“Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, has been handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials…”

“I’m hoping the scientific community continues to go off like a fire alarm in a hotel, … and that that will do the trick. If they do, the democracies, the political leadership…will all recognize that this is a real threat.”

Apparently TV advertising is just as effective at ‘fast forward’ speed! (Ahem, but are they deadly … Blipvert!)