Grieve without reservation or embarrassment until you can grieve solemnly and inwardly, and then finally hang up your tears and wear them only occasionally, as befits the true men of the hear. Grief is not a thing to be ashamed of or suppressed. Nor yet is it a thing to cherish. Feel it, inhabit it, and leave it behind. It is right, but it is not the end.

From the book The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. And yes, that’s the second quote I get from this book.

David Geary, who lead the study, had the following to say:

“In a serious out-group competition you can kill all your rivals and you’re better for it,”
“You can’t alienate your in-group partners, because you need them,”

Meaning that it makes sense to eliminate a group of strangers to establish dominance, allowing the testosterone to surge, but when the opponent is a relative or friend the level stays pretty much the same. In the latter case it is interesting for the gamer to establish dominance, but not to the full extent because he will need these people in his social environment.

We can directly conclude that you should play with friends instead of against them.

I was impressed with her paintings because of the very stark colouring. Her biography tells the tale of a woman born in the south of France, living between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, growing accustomed to the light and atmosphere of France, never leaving it for long. She studied at the Beaux arts and Decorative Arts and expositions in Europe the United-States and Canada.

Françoise Nielly’s painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force, a fascinating vital energy. Oil and knife combine tsculpt her images from a material that is , at the same time, biting and incisive, charnel and sensual. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk : her painting is sexual, her colors free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her color pallet dazzling.

Prizes in her online store start at € 500 which gets your one square meter of painting either in very lifely colours or the more starker ones. If you pass through Bordeaux before December, drop by the Galerie Rouge for a real-life viewing.

www.francoise-nielly.com

Buy your own street? Nah, just buy the street with the White House on it for a mere $2.000.000! This is what more people then just you and me thought and the result was the following messageon the official blog at http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/

The biggest land grab of 2009…

We ANTICIPATED an opening rush when we launched the Monopoly City Streets online game, but the first few hours have surpassed even our greatest EXPECTATIONS.

We are in the process of increasing our firepower and expect to be running more smoothly within the next several hours.

So, I’d recommend to start trying Nah, just kidding give it a few hours for them to get some servers up and properly running.

http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/

I’m hoping for the day (probably next year) that I don’t have any need for text messaging any more, I could just send my friends Facebook messages.