Remembering Dec. 8, 1980. A number of notables recall their reaction to hearing of John Lennon’s murder. “It was 20 years ago today.”

Yearning for a Palm device but abit strapped? Palm Inc.’s online store seems about ready to start offering refurbished models. There’s nothing currently listed but it’s probably worth checking once in awhile.

More Than 400 People Castrated in Norway between 1934-69 in a crackdown against sexual crimes. However, those affected included psychiatric patients, epileptics and gays, said historian Per Haave after research in the Norwegian health archives. Sweden revealed in 1997 it had sterilized more than 60,000 people between 1935-75, many coercively, in a “campaign to improve racial purity.” Norway also carried out forced sterilizations. Reuters

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Protesters Taunt Troops with Mirrors Sunlight has replaced stones as the weapon of choice for Lebanese flocking to
the border with Israel to taunt Israeli troops stationed there.

Lebanese venting their rage at the Jewish state are using mirrors to reflect sunlight straight into the troops’ eyes and into
the lenses of Israeli surveillance cameras. Reuters

X-treme Performance Art Moves From the Margin to the Mainstream The Village Voice [via Robot Wisdom]