Internet Cafes, Chats and Zines
- Insomnia Zine -
covering life in London from an alternative angle. Includes what's
on listings, a London directory, pop culture, music, books,
lifestyle, fashion and more. [Insomnia
started out as a personal site and then got slightly out of control.
January 1999 saw the start of a bit of a overhaul, a few more
contributers and the search for a new home for the site. We found
one, uploaded the site, and ah la peanut butter sandwiches... here
it is. Insomnia's based in London, UK, which might explain the
extensive London section, but the site includes plenty of content
for people worldwide.]
- The Insomnia
Cafe
"This is a resource for insomniacs. They can play games, go
to my insomnia chat room and chat with insomniacs around the world, read
about sleeptips, herbal remedies and techniques to fall asleep and link to
some light reading. The site also has feature articles of the week, which
will be updated. As well, the games and light reading sections will be
updated weekly." - The Owner.
- The
Insomnia Cafe A resource for insomniac where thay can
play games, go to an insomnia chat room, read sleep tips and link to
some light reading.
- Insomnia
Cafe - UK based site for fans of the US comedy -
Friends, pictures, episode guides, quotes, a
screensaver and more.
- The
Insomniacs Chat - having trouble sleeping? Why not chat
with great folks who enjoy conversation in the wee hours?
- Insomnia Bar/Cafe -
Toronto cafe - late
opening.
- Insomniac South Cyber
Cafe - catering to poets, artists &
musicians. also has computers to cruise the internet [doesn't
appear to be open - http://www.redondo.com/]
- insomniacs-hotel
- fun channel, whether you can't sleep or are
just plain addicted. [closed?]
Southern Ontario
Services
- Sligo Literary Agency
- Publisher's in-house literary agency.
- Insomniac Graphics -
commercial design, logos, typography, website design, illustration
and fine art. Single
pager
- Insomniac Press -
Canadian small press publisher of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
with an urban bent.
- Insomniac
Publishing - 244 Madison Avenue - Suite 292 - New York, NY 10016
Whether you are an experienced Web Netizen who wants to own a
complex business site, or an Internet Novice who just wants a cool
home page, we will guide you to your desired goal. Together we can..
- Insomniac.com The insomniac.com mission is two-fold: 1 To
provide a variety of design and webmaster services to outposts
around the world. 2 To make it affordable, understandable and even
fun to maintain a web
site.
- Insomnia - web
site development.
- planet insomnia -
Japanese/English and English/Japanese translation and interpreter
service.
- Insomniac
Productions - Company formed by Pete Brooks and
Claire
MacDonald after the demise of Impact Theatre
Co-operative. Marking a change for the highly visual style that
had characterised earlier work Insomniac have produced a number of
scripted works, including a trilogy of plays co-authored by Brooks
and MacDonald. Later Insomniac work has attracted a more mainstream
audience with innovative productions of Buchner and Shakespeare
and L'ascencore a popular and critical success based on Film
noir with shifting sets viewed entirely through a set of lift
doors.
- Insomniac...
- Welcome to INSOMNIAC.. This page is dedicated to
software development and anything else that is software related. The
goal is to create a forum in which people can come and discuss
Visual Basic, C++, C, 8086 Assembly Language, and
Java. There will be various updates and posts to
this page. I will be placing sample program applets and code on the
site weekly. Please feel free to submit your own code, so other
people can learn from what you are doing. Single pager
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Catherine the Great
What is Insomnia & Insomniacs WEB guide?
Insomnia!
As this is the WEB and the WEB is populated with various
sources of information, this page covers many different aspects of
insomnia - not just the disorder insomnia. Insomnia can be a
deliberate lifestyle decision and nowadays many different vendors can be
found to support this way of living. For many though, insomnia is
involuntary and for them parts of this page and the rest of the neuronic site may be
useful. This page is not comprehensive and does not provide every
link that exists on the WEB. It cannot, the resources to support
that facility are not available and this isn't a search engine or
portal.
However, for convenience,
the neuronic insomnia page
does provide a search engine listing from AltaVista and Hotbot and the links have been checked
(automated
listing). Sites of note will be reviewed. There are also
searches on sleeplessness. There a fewer pages on
sleeplessness (it's probably more difficult to type, so the chances of
typos are higher) and these tend to focus on alternative health methods as
opposed to the insomnia pages which break off into two extreme directions:
medical and lifestyle.
A recent search, (May
08, 2000) on altavista revealed
81,245 (down from) 96,430 insomnia
WEB pages and 956,885 (down from 1,128,314) sleep WEB pages. Instead, this page
selects various links, that are either outstanding or
representative. It does provide a weekly listing from the top search
engines, and will monitor how those sites do.
There is a classification
of sleep disorders but this page also explains to newcomers what insomnia is all about, why there may be
discrepancies between different health and medical sites and may even
provide a little help with insomnia.
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What is
insomnia? The Oxford English Dictionary (1998) defines
insomnia as: "Habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep." It
notes that the word originates in the 17th Century and come from the Latin
insomnis which is sleep (somnis) negated (in).
The main usage suggests
long-term, chronic sleeplessness. The secondary meaning does not have a
temporal connotation but does imply an ability. Both
definitions highlight the behavioural aspects of sleep and sleeplessness
(habit and ability).
Web
browsers, scholars and cyber-drifters will notice that when they search
for the word insomnia they will find numerous variations both of the
definition of the word (scientific and medical ) insomnia and the way it
is used. This page will examine some of the different usages (social
and lifestyle -vs- health and medical).
William Shakespeare
Who
suffers from insomnia? Who hasn't suffered from insomnia?
The word is used so imprecisely, and its meaning has changed over the
decades, that it is difficult to say accurately how many people suffer
from insomnia.
The OED definition of
insomnia does not imply nocturnal sleeplessness, so anyone who cannot fall
asleep at will during the day would according to the OED definition be
suffering from insomnia? This is probably not the normal usage but
it highlights how the word is culturally loaded. Nevertheless
insomniac patients are surprisingly wakeful people even though they don't
sleep well at night.
Nevertheless, a recent
World Health Organisation (WHO) study reported that 27% of 26,000 primary
care patient in 15 countries reported that they suffered from persistent
insomnia (reported by Lynne Lamberg, JAMA, 20, 1647-1649, 1996). It
is claimed that insomnia is associated with both significant mortality and
morbidity. There are certainly strong associations: high economic
costs, approximately $100 billion every years in the U.S.; increased
mortality; poor sleepers are less likely to do well in their jobs, at
school, and more prone to suffer from depression. However, it is not
clear whether poor sleep is causative or whether it reflects less ability
to cope, both biologically and psychologically with life.
The cause of
the insomnia may not be determined in as many as 30% of
insomniacs. The other 70% are either suffering from
psychiatric disorders, movement disorders, respiratory disorders, painful
conditions, or biological clock disorders as well conditioned
insomnia.
Napoleon
Insufficient Sleep Syndrome
Defined by the
International Classification of Sleep Disorders as "a disorder that
occurs in an individual who persistently fails to obtain sufficient
nocturnal sleep required to support normally alert wakefulness"
Voluntary (lifestyle) insomniacs beware - read
the above - reflect - and stay awake - during the
day. |
