I just thought this was funny. From the brilliant duo, Cox and Forkum.[1]
[1] I broke my stupid structured text parser so that if I had used an ampersand, it would have looked like "Cox & Forkum".
Via Simon, check out these Pear Tutorials from PHPkitchen. There are two introductions to Cache_Lite, so hopefully that'll help with my caching problem.
Via 0xDECAFBAD, NY Times Magazine: Savant for a Day
Snyder's theories are bolstered by the documented cases in which sudden brain damage has produced savant abilities almost overnight. He cites the case of Orlando Serrell, a 10-year-old street kid who was hit on the head and immediately began doing calendrical calculations of baffling complexity. Snyder argues that we all have Serrell's powers. ''We remember virtually everything, but we recall very little,'' Snyder explains. ''Now isn't that strange? Everything is in there'' -- he taps the side of his head. ''Buried deep in all our brains are phenomenal abilities, which we lose for some reason as we develop into 'normal' conceptual creatures. But what if we could reawaken them?''
We're at the same stage in brain research that biology was in the 19th century.
Stuff like this always fascinates me. I think we're all retarded children compared to what we'd be in our un-fallen state.
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