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I have been thinking about cutting the amount of tax I need to pay. I finally decided that opening my own church was one of the best ways of achieving this goal. Picking a name was relatively easy: jordism wasn’t taken and due to the Scandinavian roots of the word ‘Jord’ a nice connection with mother earth was included for free (Jord is Swedish for Earth).

But before one can start a church you need a lot of followers. Luckily boingboing came to the rescue:

Carey Burtt’s superb “Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader” (2000). It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary. Cults thrive on our vulnerabilities, and a good demonstration of just how vulnerable we all are was given in a series of experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch in the 1950s.

As Will Smith once said: “I got to have me one of these”:

This software enables almost any pc with a webcam to behave like the Wii. The camera enables you to control your computer with about any object you have. And the good thing for me is they are working on a Linux release as well.

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Lifehacker has the 10 best ways to get rid of your cablesalad.

When you finally decide it’s time to do something about that rat’s nest of cables that’s spreading like kudzu, you don’t have to spend a lot of time and money to get it under control. Whether you’re looking to stow your headphone wires tangle-free in your gym bag, hide the ugly wire spaghetti you keep kicking further under your desk, or organize your gadget chargers and power plugs, we’ve got some cord management tricks for you. Hit the jump for photos and videos of our top 10 favorite ways to get cables under control.

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