Mowgli

Bespalovskoya, Siberia - Seven year old boy had been raised by dogs since three months old ... here's the article.

Deprived of human contact for so long, Andrei could not talk and had adopted many dog-like traits including walking on all fours, biting people, sniffing his food before he ate it and general feral behaviour.

[Abandoned by his parents, he] reportedly forged a close bond with the only other living thing around, the family guard dog, which somehow helped him survive and grow up.

I sniff my food before eating it, does that count?

I haven't been able to locate Bespalovskoya, Siberia either.

Memory

Came across an interesting blog entry on transient global amnesia . . . and I do wonder (as does the author) if it's not more common than first thought.

This past month, I saw two cases of transient global amnesia. It’s a remarkable malady – the patient is unable to lay down new memories for a brief period. Old memories are untouched, personality is unchanged, and there are usually no other associated symptoms. After a few hours, they get better.

One wonders if the incidence of transient global amnesia is much higher – but the nature of the disease, and subsequent lack of initiative, prevents solitary people from noticing or doing anything about it. Then, the patients get better – and wonder where the day went.

Sometimes kindness thrives

Had I not been tipped off, I would have thought it was a regular restaurant. Beautifully decorated, with burgundy and white drapes, matching table covers, comfortable chairs with upholstered seats, bright watercolors adorning the walls, and upscale ceramic floor tiles, Carmei Ha'Ir vies with any restaurant in the market district of Jerusalem for tasty food and tasteful ambience. Only the omission of a bill presented at the end of the meal and the large wooden box near the exit, into which patrons may or may not drop their contribution (which often is a thank you scribbled on a napkin), hint to the truth: Carmei Ha'Ir is a soup kitchen.

The food, prepared by an expert chef, is tasty enough to draw a smattering of patrons who can -- and do -- afford to pay for their meal in the big wooden box at the exit. No one knows who are "paying customers" and who aren't.

You can read the whole article here.

NWN 2

Neverwinter Nights 2 announced; tenative release date 2006. Here's the official site. It's being done by Obsidian, not Bioware.

For the Americans

Read this - then make sure a few days before the elections that your address is indeed correct on your voter registration.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/yoshitsune/127705.html

Meme du Jour

Feeling Gnollish . . .
( Behind a cut for building the suspense, no? )