<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Members : DerAlt : Submitted Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime/"/><tagline>Members : DerAlt : Submitted Links : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-07T17:17:53+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[It's time for campaigning!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/74864/1/" /><id>74864</id><summary><![CDATA[It's time for campaigning!]]></summary><issued>2008-09-04T11:20:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-04T11:20:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Clever and definitely non-partisan.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Trolls Among Us ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/70910/1/" /><id>70910</id><summary><![CDATA[The Trolls Among Us ]]></summary><issued>2008-08-01T13:24:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-01T13:24:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents&#8217; bedroom closet and shot himself in the head.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Auto shows around the world]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/70464/1/" /><id>70464</id><summary><![CDATA[Auto shows around the world]]></summary><issued>2008-07-29T11:45:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-29T11:45:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wow, some of these cars look like they were designed in a Worth1000 contest.<br/><br/>The NY 2008 show has some wild ones.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Taking all the fun out of cycling (Satire)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/70101/1/" /><id>70101</id><summary><![CDATA[Taking all the fun out of cycling (Satire)]]></summary><issued>2008-07-25T20:18:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-25T20:18:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Why would you watch the Tour de France without the doped-up athletes?<br/><br/>The cleaned-up Tour is unwatchable. Apparently, if an entire sport has been using performance-enhancing drugs for decades, when you toss out the dopers, you're not left with anyone who wants to win badly enough.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Natural Selection]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/69905/1/" /><id>69905</id><summary><![CDATA[A Natural Selection]]></summary><issued>2008-07-24T13:31:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-24T13:31:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Although we tend to think of evolutionary change as being something that only takes place over the course of millions of years, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s going on here, now, all around us. So, this artcle rounds up some examples of recent evolutionary change in nature. (What does she mean by recent? Within the last 40 years.)<br/>(The fourth part in a series celebrating Charles Darwin. First three are linked.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain Gets Confused ...Again]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69608/1/" /><id>69608</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain Gets Confused ...Again]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T15:52:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T15:52:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[McCain gets confused (again) on world geography stating in an interview on ABC, &quot;I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.&quot;<br/><br/>McCain was responding to Diane Sawyer's question as to whether or not he agreed with Obama's comment that the situation in Afghanistan is &quot;percarious and urgent.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Deep Down, We Can&#8217;t Fool Even Ourselves ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/67378/1/" /><id>67378</id><summary><![CDATA[Deep Down, We Can&#8217;t Fool Even Ourselves ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-01T15:49:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-01T15:49:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The moral hypocrite, by contrast, has convinced himself that he is acting virtuously even when he does something he would condemn in others. You can understand this &#8220;self-halo&#8221; effect &#8212; and perhaps discover it in someone very close to you &#8212; by considering what happened when two psychologists, Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno, tested people&#8217;s reactions to the following situation.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Your Brain Lies to You]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/66987/1/" /><id>66987</id><summary><![CDATA[Your Brain Lies to You]]></summary><issued>2008-06-27T14:06:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-27T14:06:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eyes Bloodshot, Doctors Vent Their Discontent ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/65695/1/" /><id>65695</id><summary><![CDATA[Eyes Bloodshot, Doctors Vent Their Discontent ]]></summary><issued>2008-06-17T14:10:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-17T14:10:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[....&#8220;I&#8217;d write a prescription and then insurance companies would put restrictions on almost every medication. I&#8217;d get a call: &#8216;Drug not covered. Write a different prescription or get preauthorization.&#8217; If I ordered an M.R.I., I&#8217;d have to explain to a clerk why I wanted to do the test. I felt handcuffed. It was a big, big headache.&#8221;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Finding the Hits, Avoiding the Errors]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/64671/1/" /><id>64671</id><summary><![CDATA[Finding the Hits, Avoiding the Errors]]></summary><issued>2008-06-07T13:42:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-07T13:42:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A culinary scorecard for all 30 major league baseball stadiums. Read the related article and share your thoughts on the best and worst food you've tasted at a ballpark.<br/>You want champagne with that?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64565/1/" /><id>64565</id><summary><![CDATA[The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) ]]></summary><issued>2008-06-06T09:42:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-06T09:42:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So is it possible that Jon Stewart, who wields sarcasm like a machete on &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; has an unusually large right parahippocampal gyrus? <br/><br/>&#8220;His is probably just normal,&#8221; Dr. Rankin said. &#8220;The right parahippocampal gyrus is involved in detecting sarcasm, not being sarcastic.&#8221;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Family fight over feeding tube reminiscent of Schiavo case]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64185/1/" /><id>64185</id><summary><![CDATA[Family fight over feeding tube reminiscent of Schiavo case]]></summary><issued>2008-06-03T16:09:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-03T16:09:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Florida woman put on a feeding tube after she had a stroke is at the center of a court case that is eerily similar to the lengthy legal dispute over whether Terri Schiavo should be kept alive.<br/>Image not related.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64182/1/" /><id>64182</id><summary><![CDATA[The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least]]></summary><issued>2008-06-03T15:23:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-03T15:23:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At least that&#8217;s Dr. Kurzweil&#8217;s calculation. It may sound too good to be true, but even his critics acknowledge he&#8217;s not your ordinary sci-fi fantasist. He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/63508/1/" /><id>63508</id><summary><![CDATA[A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue ]]></summary><issued>2008-05-28T14:15:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-28T14:15:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a &#8220;chocolate shake.&#8221;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Return of the Swift Boaters]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63492/1/" /><id>63492</id><summary><![CDATA[Return of the Swift Boaters]]></summary><issued>2008-05-28T11:54:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-28T11:54:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The most notable recipient of Swift Boat largesse is John McCain. McCain ditched the mantle of maverick for that of hack, and his once-floundering, but rejuvenated campaign has been aided along the way by $61,650 from Swift Boat donors and their associates.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Long March to an Apology]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63206/1/" /><id>63206</id><summary><![CDATA[Long March to an Apology]]></summary><issued>2008-05-26T10:23:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-26T10:23:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When the Japanese attacked in December 1941, the American and Filipino forces were unprepared. On April 9, 1942, the American commanders surrendered, and the 65-mile Bataan Death March began.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nude woman buys smokes in German gas station, leaves in Ferrari]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/62543/1/" /><id>62543</id><summary><![CDATA[Nude woman buys smokes in German gas station, leaves in Ferrari]]></summary><issued>2008-05-20T13:58:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-20T13:58:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Now, that in itself is not newsworthy. What is, however, is that the blond, tattooed woman was buck naked, save for a pair of gold stiletto heels and a bracelet. It was not her first trip.<br/><br/>Pics are separately linked, nothing too revealing actually.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Girl's fear of school costs district thousands]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62412/1/" /><id>62412</id><summary><![CDATA[Girl's fear of school costs district thousands]]></summary><issued>2008-05-19T21:37:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-19T21:37:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rebecca Maykish is 17 and dreads school so much that she stopped going regularly.<br/><br/>In fourth grade.<br/><br/>Those days off have come at a price to her school district and the Palmerton taxpayers who support it. Since 2004, the Palmerton Area School Board has authorized payments of more than $45,000 to help Rebecca make up for her missed school days.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cute trick]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62108/1/" /><id>62108</id><summary><![CDATA[Cute trick]]></summary><issued>2008-05-16T12:58:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-16T12:58:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Write your last name on the top line, your first on the second line and leave the others blank.<br/>Then click visualizer.<br/><br/>Interesting software. (music is a bit loud, turn down your sound a bit)<br/>Can't add a theme image for some reason]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush legacy: Setting a standard in fear-mongering]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61970/1/" /><id>61970</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush legacy: Setting a standard in fear-mongering]]></summary><issued>2008-05-15T15:07:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-15T15:07:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;When I left the Bush administration in 2003, it was clear to me that its strategy for defeating terrorism was leaving our nation more vulnerable and our people in a perilous place&quot;<br/><br/>Richard Clarke's comments. From 2006, old, but since Dubya's at it again.....]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The McCain Doctrines]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61857/1/" /><id>61857</id><summary><![CDATA[The McCain Doctrines]]></summary><issued>2008-05-14T21:40:49+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-14T21:40:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Whatever their disagreements on policy, United States senators, even in today&#8217;s hyperpolitical climate, are reluctant to impugn one another&#8217;s motives or integrity.<br/><br/>Good read not meant to be political. Interesting insights.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China earthquake in video ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61695/1/" /><id>61695</id><summary><![CDATA[China earthquake in video ]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T16:01:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T16:01:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Actual videos of the quake while it happened and follow up videos of the rescue efforts.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61579/1/" /><id>61579</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change]]></summary><issued>2008-05-12T21:50:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-12T21:50:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mr. McCain added pointedly: &#8220;I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges.&#8221;<br/><br/>Ouch! That will cost him some votes with the hardliners.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The 10 Worst Congressmen]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61343/1/" /><id>61343</id><summary><![CDATA[The 10 Worst Congressmen]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T16:30:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T16:30:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is quite a group. <br/>Even in politics these folks are standouts.<br/>Number 3, Don Young of Alaska has recently added another shady episode with his adding of a 10 million dollar earmark to the I-75 road project in Florida. The earmark showed up <i>after</i> congress passed the bill but <i>before</i> the president signed it.<br/>This is from 2006 but unfortunately it never seems to get old.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sharpton owes overdue taxes and other penalties]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61325/1/" /><id>61325</id><summary><![CDATA[Sharpton owes overdue taxes and other penalties]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T10:26:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T10:26:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He and his organizations owe huge tax bills.<br/><br/><br/>Go get him!]]></content></entry></feed>