Boing Boing » insanity http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Act now! Special offer! http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/act-now-special-offer.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/act-now-special-offer.html#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 20:50:37 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=159970 Ridiculous subscription pricing policies at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Be prepared to headdesk so many times that you dent your furniture and/or give yourself a concussion ... especially when you get to the spreadsheets. (Via Nieman Lab)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/act-now-special-offer.html/feed 4 Insanity http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/insanity.html http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/insanity.html#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:26:22 +0000 Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/?p=127975

Google Books' scan of Edward Spitzka's book, "Insanity", includes this interesting page concerning involuntary constriction of the pupils, disturbances in the flow of words, and how patients distort letterforms when writing insane documents. [Thanks, Joel!] ]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/insanity.html/feed 16