TED Blog: Lewis Pugh at TEDGlobal 2009

Today, on stage, Pugh describes his experience and the months of training that go into an Arctic swim. He says it was only after a year of training that he felt confident enough to enter the icy waters. They stopped the ship, he dived into the sea. He says, "I have never felt anything like that moment." The paradox of the experience was that he felt like he was on fire, he explains. His hands froze immediately, and even by the next day had not regained feeling. As a swimmer who must grab the water with his hands to move, he was panicked, but eventually he regained full feeling.

Flashback to Sept '08: Alarmist kayaker Lewis Pugh already "stuck" in ice at 80.52397 degrees N

After awaking to find their vessel frozen in ice the team are steaming around looking for a path that's navigable by kayak.
No paddling today.

Warning Signs: Too Much Obama

Americans are increasingly wary of bills in excess of a thousand pages that members of Congress do not read before passing. They have reason to be.

Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler - Boing Boing

The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times