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International Byhålenytt Friday 2010-01-01

Happy new year!

Alien looking smart-asses

The Boskop is a human race that lived in South Africa some thousands of years ago. They had huge brains and tiny faces, just like alien humanoids generally are depicted.
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us
http://ranprieur.com/readings/futureman.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-evolution-appears-t
And some bashing of the concept and stating the fact that humans all over the world have been getting smaller brains the last 10 000 years:
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/brain/paleo/lynch-granger-big-brain-boskops-2008.html

Copyright continue to kill culture

Same old crap again: A lot of information is stolen from the public domain for no reason at all:
http://slashdot.org/story/09/12/31/2255212/What-emWouldem-Have-Entered-the-Public-Domain-Tomorrow
Apparently no one cares enough about these works, otherwise there would have been plenty of murders.

But people are blind anyway, so who care?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg

Culture: Avatar

It was long and exhausting. Some really cute 3-meter chicks. And guys in wheel-chairs always kick ass. And guess what: Yes, you've heard the story before. And yes, the claimed writers of the story claim it's great and that they actually wrote it.