Saturday, June 09, 2007

WiPeer -- connxn with another computer without router

Yeah, you and the other computer have wireless cards, but no immediately available router to connect to each other. Just use a free application.

Net worth and IQ not so related, esp. at higher ends

From the journal Intelligence:

It would appear that if your net worth is more than about $70k, it has nothing to do with your IQ. Conversely, if your IQ is above 120, there doesn’t necessarily seem to be much reason to hope for anything special. Yeah, you earn more with higher IQ, but that take doesn’t have to stay around.

Freezing eggs

Know a woman who wants children even later? Vitrification (diff use of word: fast-freezing to prevent damaging ice crystal formation) of eggs allowing high thaw survival rates and fertilization rates approaching those of fresh eggs. While the technology has come along, it’s still new.

Incorporate in the US if you want online US customers

Your small business is not based in the US, but you want online customers from the US? Bad PayPal stories are making some just incorporate in the US and go for other payment gateways.

Slow wave sleep machine

Magnetically inducing deeper, and presumably more restorative, sleep.

Cousin tree



Proper writing guidelines

Solecisms (?) and table of contents for proper writing guidelines for writers at The Economist.

g.ho.st: your desktop anywhere you go

Eventually, you can have your desktop anywhere you can get an internet connection, rather than only at home: An online OS/virtual computer named g.ho.st with 3GB of free storage.

E. Howard Hunt confessed about those behind JFK hit

I first heard of one-time CIA operatiave E. Howard Hunt in All the President’s Men, my education of Watergate. His son, St. John, one day in his early twenties, saw a flyer about the JFK assassination conspiracy with a photo of three tramps at Dealey Plaza. He was convinced that one of them was his dad in disguise.

Years later, as E. Howard Hunt was seemingly close to death, his estranged son pressed for details. The decades of denial relented to a flow chart and a tape. I’ve linked directly to page 7 of 8 where the revelation is; go to the third paragraph, beginning “E. Howard scribbled”.

VoIPStunt

300 free minutes per week long distance to some countries.

Davey and Son of Goliath

Do you remember that Christian claymation series for children with the kid and his dog, Davey and Goliath? Here's MadTV's take from their 1st season, I think: