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Submission + - The day Leo Traynor confronted his troll (guardian.co.uk)

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McGruber writes: Dublin-based writer Leo Traynor (traynorseye.com) has written a piece about confronting the troll who drove him off Twitter, hacked his Facebook, and abused and terrified his family. The piece is posted on his own site (http://www.traynorseye.com/) and at the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/26/day-confronted-troll)
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Submission + - Smartphones Have Banished Boredom (and Why That's Bad) 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Doug Gross writes that thanks to technology, there's been a recent sea change in how people today kill time. "Those dog-eared magazines in your doctor's office are going unread. Your fellow customers in line at the deli counter are being ignored. And simply gazing around at one's surroundings? Forget about it." With their games, music, videos, social media and texting, smartphones "superstimulate," a desire humans have to play when things get dull, says anthropologist Christopher Lynn and he believes that modern society may be making that desire even stronger. "When you're habituated to constant stimulation, when you lack it, you sort of don't know what to do with yourself ...," says Lynn. "When we aren't used to having down time, it results in anxiety. 'Oh my god, I should be doing something.' And we reach for the smartphone. It's our omnipresent relief from that." Researchers say this all makes sense. Fiddling with our phones, they say, addresses a basic human need to cure boredom by any means necessary. But they also fear that by filling almost every second of down time by peering at our phones we are missing out on the creative and potentially rewarding ways we've dealt with boredom in days past. "Informational overload from all quarters means that there can often be very little time for personal thought, reflection, or even just 'zoning out,'" researchers write. "With a mobile (phone) that is constantly switched on and a plethora of entertainments available to distract the naked eye, it is understandable that some people find it difficult to actually get bored in that particular fidgety, introspective kind of way.""

Submission + - Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum (theoatmeal.com) 2

Submitted by Quince alPillan
Quince alPillan writes: The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman is once again collecting money for a good cause. This time, he's collecting money for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe to purchase the original location of the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York so that it can be rebuilt into a Tesla Museum. The fundraiser, titled Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum has already started.

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