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I really don't like DST, and have already written about my arguments against it.

I would just add that we should be careful of stuff that sound so similar to STD.

For a while now I have been testing the new Opera 10 (quite pleased with it by the way ). Somewhere along the way I have noticed that IMDb has changed the layout of the movies page a bit. It didn't look to bad, maybe it is better this way. But now running in Opera 9.62, I found that the old layout is back. Then I thought that maybe just some page have new layouts, or they are experimenting. So I opened the same page at the same time in Opera 10 and Opera 9.62, and behold they are different:


Normal layout in Opera 9

New layout in Opera 10 - less detail before the cast, the cast is also aligned left, not center.

I tried to check around but haven't found anything. I am logged in with both browsers, I have tried to search through preferences, but found nothing. Weird aye?

"Hurt" is a song written by Trent Reznor (of the band Nine Inch Nails), first released in 1994. Later it was covered by a number of bands. The most famous cover, that this entry focuses on, was by Johnny Cash in 2002.

Trent Reznor later said, that at first the idea of Cash covering the song was flattering, but also a bit worrying, being that he is a country artist. But when he heard the version, and saw the video, he said "that song isn't mine anymore", because Johnny has made into something different, "but every bit as pure".

The lyrics are the same, the main music motives are the same, yet Johnny now tells about his life, himself being at the end of his own. The video and the song were the last that were released before Johnny died.

Following is the video that received a "Best video of the year" Grammy, and also a "Best single of the year" title from the Country Music Awards.

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'Common Sense' don't always make sense. On cracked.com there is a good article about the 5 most common ways it lies to us everyday. It starts with reminding us that Albert Einstein defined common sense as a collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18.

I'm going to list these five major logic fallacies in thinking in short here, and you can go and read in more detail at the original article.

* The Historian's Fallacy
This is when we look at past errors and think how people were stupid when making them, not trying to see it from their point of view, and forgetting they didn't know what we know now. Like thinking how totally and obviously stupid it was to sail the Titanic north and causing the sinking.

* The Nirvana Fallacy
Thinking how something is not worth doing if you can't do it perfect. Like why would you feed a homeless person when it won't fix poverty.

* The Appeal to Probability
Misinterpreting probability theories in a fuzzy way, like "if something can happen, it probably will". For example buying lottery tickets and justifying it with "somebody's got to win, why wouldn't it be me?".

* The Regression Fallacy
Seeing patterns where there are none. Thinking that A is cause of B, just because it happened at the same time. This is the reason for most of the superstitious beliefs.

* Special Pleading
Making an exception out a general rule without any justification except that it suits our needs at the moment. The interesting thing about this one is that we apply it to itself. We may allow ourselves to do it, but when other people do it we say it's wrong.

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I picked up this article a few months ago from Ze's blog, and I thought it was interesting enough to share, so I finaly did