links for 2007-06-29
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«Just in through the grapevine: Music helps grow healthier plants. That’s the preliminary result of research by Italian scientists who have been examining vineyards exposed to classical music to see if sound makes the plants grow larger and more quickly.
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«The iPhone’s ability to sense motion, proximity and light is clearly designed to make it seem less like an object and more like a “familiar spirit,” a sort of witch’s helper explicitly banned by Leviticus and Deuteronomy.» Nice satire.