Quote of Week

Nice going, Germany -- between this and the new anti-hacker laws, you've managed to criminalize every productive member of the information society. Enjoy the caves and flint axes.

via BoingBoing.net

Turning Tides...

Running through my head lately is an excerpt from a conversation with a psychologist. We were discussing depression in the context of seasons and how it fits with suicide. There is some link between cold/dark months with depression but not as much so with suicide.

Oddly enough, it's not until the weather starts to warm/brighten up that suicide rates raise. Counter-intuitively, they have to get better to committ suicide. Her reasoning was, that for the seasonals who've cycled through a few times, they'd rather not go through all that pain again.

Now, why was that running through my head?