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Links dump: The plant that blogs; How McCain picked Palin; 10 free symphonies...

8:57 AM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 |
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What am I doing? Blogging plant posts daily news on its mood-. Telegraph (UK) reports,

Midori-san, which lives on the counter of a Japanese café, writes regular updates with the help of sensors attached to its leaves.

The detectors pick up electronic signals on the surface of the plant, which responds to light and human touch.

The data is then combined with weather and temperature information and translated into chatty blog posts using a computer algorithm.

"Today was a sunny day and I was able to sunbathe a lot... I had quite a bit of fun today," it wrote on October 16 from its cafe in Kamakura, near Tokyo. ...

Really, if that's the most it can say, the plant should just Twitter.


Free mp3s: The (Dutch) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra celebrates its 120th anniversary by giving away a free symphony a day, ten in all. At Radio4.


Star search: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.. Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.


Morbid curiosity: How to Embalm a Body by Nicole Pasulka in The Morning News. Not an actual how-to, but a "I watched one."


Thoughtful: Doctor and Patient - The Choices Patients Make

What is a normal life?

Some wear glasses, can't ever eat bread or pasta or anything with gluten, some lack limbs from birth, after war or accident, some live live in a wheelchair, some as a brain in a flopping body. Some take a daunting round of medications all day, and are never quite well.

Some take it as the end of life. Others a different life. And if they don't like that life, then what?

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