six words

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

Some of these are just beautiful.

(Hey, look--inadvertent self-referential story entry!)

(I'm reminded of the time when a friend of mine and I would take turns picking six words out of the dictionary and sending them to the other person, who'd then have to write a short story using them. It would be fun to do that again sometime when I'm not heavily overcommitted. :) )

Of course, one of my LJ 'friends' (I quote this only because it's more of an artist/fanboy thing) has already posted her take on this, and her army of readers is responding: http://ursulav.livejournal.com/545004.html

face blindness

Wired: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind_pr.html

Describes the experiences of, and the research concerning, people who are unable to recognize people's faces, either due to injury or a possibly-congenital brain condition--while being able to recognize other types of objects without difficulty.

If you read (and were interested in) Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, read this article. Fascinating stuff.