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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
Neat feats include overcoming the urge to pee, stopping a brain freeze and clearing a stuffy nose. Link via Boing Boing.

The title says it all. Don’t believe me? Just search on eBay for the keywords “xbox 360″ and you’ll see plenty of people making at least a 200% profit on their preordered toys.
Update: CNet also has a story about the madness on eBay.
Update #2: John points out that people are dumb.

Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet
“Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users’ movements and habits, the UN’s telecommunications agency predicted.”

In honor of John’s 25th birthday, here’s a list of things that other slightly-more-famous people accomplished by the same age: (Warning — don’t read any further if you’re in your mid-20s, easily depressed and generally unhappy with your lack of accomplishment!)

The future mythologist Joseph Campbell decided to move to Woodstock to read the classics for [...]

This may be old to some, but I’ve only recently discovered Reebok’s series of commercials chronicling the adventures of Terry Tate, Office Linebacker. Great for a laugh, especially if you work in a cube farm.