Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder

Listed as one of the primary sleep disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the sleep disorder can cause insomnia and excessive sleepiness, and may result in impaired functioning in social, occupational, and other environments.

Roth v. Roth v. Roth (from the Atlantic)

"The complexities and conundrums of reading [Philip] Roth's work as autobiography."

Greg Mortenson Will Stay With Central Asia Institute

But he'll also have to repay $1M in mismanaged and misspent funds.

Happy Opening Day!

"Yankee Baseball," by Terry Cashman.

Fun facts:
1) Terry Cashman (born Dennis Minogue), who adapted his classic, "Talkin' Baseball," for the Yanks, was the brother of my 7th grade English teacher, Sister Doris Minogue (who was herself a diehard Mets fan).
2) Cashman later spoofed the song on "The Simpsons."
3) Growing up I owned the "Talkin' Baseball" 45, which replaced "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" as my go-to record.

Thanks to Dustin for posting on facebook.

Life: An Instruction Manual

If anyone's qualified to write it, it's probably The Dalai Lama.

Gratitude

My sense of gratitude might not be languishing, but it certainly isn't thriving, either. Time to work it out, with gratitude exercises from dotMagis.

Balance

Another Marc and Angel post: this time, 12 things Successful People do Differently.

As an artist, I can identify with both of what are intended to be contrasting examples of a lack of balance in life. (#12.) Hrmmmm...

How to Defend Obamacare

By Akhil Reed Amar, this Slate post examines the Constitutionality of Obamacare, and upholds it, you know, with logic and stuff.

Happiness Habits

“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.”
-Dan Millman

Here are 12 Things Happy People Do Differently.

The Ghost Army of World War II

Here's literally all of the evidence I found that would seem to support the existence of the Ghost Army:

- The Ghost Army of World War II: for sale on Amazon.
- An article in the Telegraph.
- A very thin Wikipedia article about the unit.
- The Ghost Army: a documentary by Rick Beyer, complete with clips available on YouTube.

The story is that the unit was kept classified until the 80s, but it's so fascinating that I feel I should be able to unearth more information... any thoughts?

Seven Ballsy Pranks

"The Seven Ballsiest Pranks You Won't Believe Actually Worked."

The writing is fair, but the pranks are excellent. Of course, Cracked posted this on April Fools', so I'm a little skeptical, particularly of the Ghost Army (#1), about which I can't find much more information. What I have found, however, will be posted shortly.

Once More Unto the Breach

It is now the spring of 2012; it has been fifteen months since my first and heretofore last post. But I'm back. And the first thing I'm going to attempt to do with Permanent Beta [redux] is use it to organize the sites I have bookmarked for reference on Google Chrome. I'll also try to make that fun for you.

I'm a bookmark junkie. I hoard them. Whenever something on the internet interests me- not so much that I can justify printing an entire article, but just enough that the thought of losing it forever is too much to bear- I bookmark it. As you might imagine, the percentage of these bookmarks I revisit is small. I convince myself it's worth it because when I finally do sit down to write that play all these articles will surely come in handy. But Google Chrome's current bookmark setup (of files and folders) isn't good for reference; I'd rather use tags.

For now, the posts will be coming fast, so I can get through all of my current bookmarks. Rebuttals to anything and everything are welcome, and if you have a link you think I'd like, please send it my way! I'll also try to post things that aren't related to anything you might find on the internet (once you discount the fact that the internet is where you've found the post).

And please, tag away!