December 2010
Anonymous asked: This isn't a question but I just wanted to let you know that I recently stumbled-upon this and i've spent the past few days reading all the old posts. I absolutely love everything on here; it's really quite lovely.
Anonymous asked: Been following so close that I got giddy when it showed posts within the past 6 minutes!!! YAYA
Anonymous asked: Been following so close that I got giddy when it showed posts within the past 6 minutes!!! YAYA
NATASHA'S FAV 5
1. Unhear It - a site to rid of you that song in your head
2. Bookslut - one of the best online literary magazines out there
3. Totally Looks Like - the place for ultimate comparisons
4. I Write Like - find out which famous writer you write like
5. Listography - create lovely lists or use the list topic generator
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– John Steinbeck
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Song of the day: “Christmas Don’t Be...
Marijuana Pepsi will see you now
When Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t live in a world where pop stars call their babies Bronx Mowgli and students sit outside a college counselor’s office underneath a sign that reads: “If You’re Waiting for Marijuana, Sit Here.”
Celebrities giving their offspring names that they call creative and others call bizarre is nothing new, as Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa could tell you....
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“I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and...”
– Sloane Crosley
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Anonymous asked: I was using stumble upon for the first time ever last night and "stumbled upon" your blog. I have went back about 20-30 posts and love everything about H&H. Everything that you post is of some interest to me or I can relate to. It's just so crazy to find a blog that I can relate to in many many ways. Anyways, I have one question for now and you may have already answered this but...
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HIV cure a success, but won't work for everyone
Does one man’s apparent recovery from HIV herald the dawn of a cure for the disease?
The internet is abuzz with press reports claiming that a new cure for HIV is on the horizon. This flurry began last week with a paper in the journal Blood, followed by an interview with the patient himself in the German magazine Stern, and has since spread around the web like wildfire, including reports...
Anonymous asked: I was using stumble upon for the first time ever last night and "stumbled upon" your blog. I have went back about 20-30 posts and love everything about H&H. Everything that you post is of some interest to me or I can relate to. It's just so crazy to find a blog that I can relate to in many many ways. Anyways, I have one question for now and you may have already answered this but...
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“The truth will set you free—but not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace
To the lovely Capricorn (who poured her heart out to me), Send me your email—H&H is no place for me to write all that I want to for you.
Sincerely, N.
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Patient Cured of HIV with Stem Cell Transplant
Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.
The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile which led...
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“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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Anonymous asked: I stumbled upon your blog a year ago and have checked it daily ever since. Your posts range from hilarious to extremely touching and poignant, and I always look forward to them. Especially the quotes you post; they always seem to make me realize that I'm not alone in my experiences, these people were there too. It's hard for me to put my thoughts into writing but you seem to for me with...
Couple Finally Gets Together After 45,000 Emails
The tale of Melbourne couple Scott and Nicole McIntyre’s 12-year romance involves four internet platforms, 45,000 emails, a Craigslist posting and three continents.
The pair lost contact several times after they first began communicating via Yahoo Chat in 1998, picking up the threads of their connection through the internet several times over the years. They were both living in the US...
Spoken Gems →
Site of the day.
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“I don’t believe in failure, because simply by saying you’ve failed,...”
– Sarah Dessen
The Perfect Crime Scene
Pictured above is a map of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Most of it is within the borders of Wyoming, but northern and western slivers lie within Montana and Idaho. University of Michigan law professor Brian C. Kalt has written a paper about why the piece within Idaho is the perfect place to commit a crime. Dan Lewis summarizes:
“Let’s say you, heaven forbid, are...
