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Tim Kroenert posted this to the southern_horror newsgroup:

Interesting article from the New Yorker this week about a team of analysts who have devised a system of predicting a film's box office based on certain quantifiable factors in the screenplay. It's frightening to think how predictable the movie going audience at large actually is. Fascinating stuff.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact6?currentPage=all

I don't have the mental cohesion to read it all at the moment, but I thought some might be interested.

PS: If anyone has any cures for a screaming case of insomnia, I'd love to hear them.

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BILLY BRAGG, WARN ECONOMISTS

WITH unemployment expected to reach three million by the end of next year, economists were last night warning of Billy Bragg. Getting all worked up about Lenin, probably The dire financial climate means there is now a greater chance of the communist singer-songwriter than at any time since 1987.

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Mobile phone radiation 'fries sperm.'
Men who talk for hours on their mobile phone could be jeopardising their chance of fathering a child, Australian research suggests.