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[edited by: rogerd at 6:50 pm (utc) on April 25, 2005]
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Syzygy I think...
"The impairment only lasts for as long as the distraction. But you have to ask whether our current obsession with constant communication is causing long-term damage to concentration and mental ability."
Like, concentrating on beeing constantly distracted, right?
if the effects are that similar ..anyone for choc chip icecream and peanut butter cookies ..with marmite :)
What happens if you use your mobile phone to buy cannabis?
You get busted. Here's how it works...
(1) You order the cannibis.
(2) You smoke the cannibis.
(3) You order 14 pizzas and ask if there's anyway the delivery guy could pick up four or five boxes of Twinkies on the way over.
(4) The FBI is tipped off and you get busted.
cEM
Screw SEO... I'm becoming a pot head. I'll be smarter at the end of every day because of it... right?
Now, how to support my new job as a pot head? SEO?
[theregister.com...]
I've always suspected that this is true, there's so much hype around computers that schools just fell for it without waiting to see if there were problems with sitting in front of a computer screen all day doing absolutely nothing real except moving your fingers around a keyboard. Obviously that's going to have an affect, dugh.
When you toss a ball back and forth you learn about physics, you train your mind to deal with the physical world, when you talk to someone in person you learn about socializing since you have an immediate feedback mechanism based on the person's response to you, which teaches you how to socialize, when you look at various emulations of these processes you learn about emulations. Virtual means virtual.
You should watch TV, according to the NY Times: Watching TV Makes You Smarter [nytimes.com]. :)
