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Reassesing the fundamental assumption that real estate prices will always rise:

Housing will eventually recover from its great swoon. But many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, when houses not only provided shelter but also a plump nest egg.

Beautiful elegy to a beloved cat # § cats, Culture, Death, del.icio.us, link, nytimes, pets

NYTimes expose on my favorite actress # § actress, del.icio.us, exposé, Film, link, Movies, nytimes

Bulk fill instapaper with news from the Guardian, NYTimes, some Aussie paper and Delicious links. Ace! # § del.icio.us, guardian, instapaper, link, nytimes

Haute stoner cuisine # § Cooking, cuisine, Culture, del.icio.us, Drugs, link, marijuana, nytimes

You know those people. You could be one of them. # § del.icio.us, link, Mind, nytimes, Psychology

How Hollywood over the years has structured their movie shots and sequences to coincide with the 1/f fluctuation

the basic shot structure of the movies, the way film segments of different lengths are bundled together from scene to scene, act to act, has evolved over the years to resemble a rough but recognizably wave-like pattern called 1/f, or one over frequency — or the more Hollywood-friendly metaphor, pink noise

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Short expose on Laura Linney, one of my favorite actresses # § actress, del.icio.us, exposé, Film, lauralinney, link, NYC, nytimes, Theatre

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For some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don’t necessarily lose weight. A study published online in September in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that.