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Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: web (e-mail)
For tens of dollars.
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Labels: consumer
Four rules to better grasp what's going on.
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Labels: psychology
"The Internet wasn't designed for people to watch television," [Larry Roberts] says. "I know because I designed it."
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Labels: web
Some HGH controversy regarding this surging demographic gold rush of anti-aging.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: med
Imperial habits die hard:
"... The CAR itself is a base from which the French can access resources all over Africa. That is why it is so important. They use it to keep the oil flowing to French companies in Chad, the resources flowing from Congo, and so on. And of course, the country itself has valuable resources. CAR has a lot of uranium, which the French badly need because they are so dependent on nuclear power. At the moment they get their uranium from Niger, but the CAR is their back-up plan." So this is, in part, a war for nuclear power? " Yes, but also a lot of this money has been funnelled, through corruption, straight back into the French political process..."
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: development, history, politics
From craigslist. Straight up vanity meets straight up market logic.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics, humor
... 48-inch picture standing just 0.5cm back from the wall, and a 200-inch picture from 3-feet 9-inches back...
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Labels: tech
Well, it's saved there (the asterisks are there), but you can't recall what it is.
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Labels: web
Like the primacy and recency effects meaning we should take a 5 - 10 minute break every 30 minutes.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: psychology
Climate change is nothing to worry about, says the eminent physicist. Let's celebrate genetic engineering and our ability to design a new world of plants and creatures.Previous post of an article from him here.
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Labels: science
After displaying some agitation (somewhat physical with others), Carole Anne Gotbaum was subdued:
The witnesses that saw her just before she went into the holding tank say she was completely listless and unconscious," said [family attorney] Manning.She was cuffed to a bench in the cell and found dead after some time. The initial explanation from the police was that she had strangled herself with the chain on the cuffs.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: law
Custom-made; a few are good.
This one reads, "Because she just might want to hear about your 12th level Paladin."
Here is another site for, yet again, just a few good ones.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: humor
Just capture and download.
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Labels: web (site dvpt)
It turned out that after a single dose of a specific cytokine known as interleukin-6 (or IL-6), a mouse would give birth to offspring who, at maturity, exhibited the familiar schizophrenia- and autism-like behaviors.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
How the Long Tail is taking over:
Another online Pareto Principle killer is at Zappos.com where they’re statistics show that 20 percent of the top products create about 50 percent of the company revenue with the bottom 80 percent creating the other 50 percent.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics, web (trends)
[Flo the cat] also has a habit of catching various animals, dragging them inside through the cat door, and letting them loose so they can be chased for hours. Very cruel. To put an end to this we have built a computer-controlled device that visually determines if Flo is carrying anything in her mouth when she enters, and if she does, it simply does not let her in.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: tech
Self-study modules, but then you step up to interaction with real people.
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Links to a couple of related articles. Here's a quote from one:
Then there's the ozone destruction.Earlier studies have suggested that such a conflict would throw five million tonnes of black soot into the atmosphere, triggering a reduction of 1.25°C in the average temperature at the earth's surface for several years. As a result, the annual growing season in the world's most important grain-producing areas would shrink by between 10 and 20 days.
Helfand points out that the world is ill-prepared to cope with such a disaster. "Global grain stocks stand at 49 days, lower than at any point in the past five decades," he says.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: science
From TED again in 2007. Same message of hidden improvement, but also pointing to the dimensions that need our attention and how our efforts are not wasted. Funnier moments than previous year. Previous post of '06 video here.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: development, video
The various dynamics of losing using various moments in sports history.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: psychology
He seems to think it's useless. Aren't there some legal contexts where it is important?
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: tech
You simply make a prediction, and ZiiTrend’s neural-network algorithm blends your answer with everyone else’s to come up with a statistically valid answer that captures the crowd’s intelligence. Rather than revolving around trading, which is hard for many people to grasp, the site’s main appeal is designed to be more around social news exchange.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 1 comments
Labels: web (social)
"It is hard to imagine that a combination of pretty mundane everyday materials like clay and PVA can give such unique mechanical properties," says Kotov. Stiffness and tensile strength are at least 10 times greater than any other nanocomposite made before, he adds.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: science
A few too many overturned convictions is necessitating some changes.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: law
The insurance company doesn't want to pay for the possible damage for an advancing fire, so they hire out a skeleton crew to fireproof the houses with retardant.
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics
Pictorial contrasts of German culture compared to that of the Chinese. This one is entitled "The Boss".
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Labels: culture
The reason we looked at these three individual genes in the first place, out of a huge number of possible genes, is that we have a computer model that examines how dopamine mediates these kinds of reinforcement processes in the striatum and prefrontal cortex...
Posted by echo at Monday, October 08, 2007 0 comments
Labels: neuro
... drag in modules to add information - local foreclosures, recent sales, listed homes, schools, even fast food restaurants.Also now,
... new feature - the ability to create a map with various modules included and then embed it on another website. So any site that wants to add a Google generated map that includes, say, local businesses and restaurants (a hotel, for example) can now do so easily.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: housing/neighborhood
Eight lesser known exercises.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: med
Clues to shopping for the right stuff and maintenance.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: tech
The argument here is that redistribution of the haves' wealth screws up incentives and doesn't make anyone happy. It's actually mobility and opportunity that buoys one's views.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics
Enough traffic would get user reviews, I guess. Otherwise, there are reviews from more official publications. Nice maps interface.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 3 comments
Labels: web
Can't say I'm persuaded that data from two regions is supposed account for millenia of prehistory for the globe. Also, in my mind, recent decades of peace just means that those with war memory need to disappear from the political scene before the elements for a wide conflagration can rear their heads.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Results show how well your sleep is optimized and some steps you can take.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: med
A collection of links from The Spark at Yahoo about Sufi mystic Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: philosophy/religion
Fire sales and such. Coming to realize the security vulnerability of a wired society.
Thanks to Julio.
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Labels: web
Hostel rates and ratings. Book online in some cases.
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Labels: travel
The wired-in-brain nature of speculative bubbles.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics, psychology
Pictionary online.
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Labels: games
An iSketch parody based on a scene from Der Untergang (The Downfall). We get to see Alexandra Maria Lara.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Amazing how a meme or conventional wisdom has its own momentum.
On reading the numbers here.
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Labels: other
I periodically receive inquiries from friends asking for the easiest way to access files and folders on a FTP server. They normally have their own FTP server setup at home, and they want to ensure fast access to their files without having to mess with third-party applications. Is it possible to quickly map a FTP to a drive? You bet!
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: tech
Bond ladder?
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics
What songbirds, dancing, and knot-tying can tell us about why we speak.Some info on genetic underpinnings.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: language, psychology, science
You can get ratings for everything at Yelp. Can GarageSeek survive?
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: transport
Naomi Wolf itemizes from history the necessary steps to firm control in a society.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: politics
Too cluttered? Missing something? Customize to your heart's content.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: tech
Call out from PC only:
Phone conversations are monitored only by computers, not actual human beings. The company also does not record any of the conversations or log any of the topics discussed.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: telephony
Streamed video from Colorado State University.
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Labels: video
Uncyclopedia's take on Wikipedia.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: humor
... female children and adults more frequently predicted that characters [in stories] who encountered “similar perpetrators” would feel worried because they thought the new person or animal might cause the same harm as the one from the past.
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: psychology
Many executives here acknowledge that outsourcing, having rained most heavily on India, will increasingly sprinkle tasks around the globe. Or, as Ashok Vemuri, an Infosys senior vice president, put it, the future of outsourcing is “to take the work from any part of the world and do it in any part of the world.”
Posted by echo at Sunday, October 07, 2007 0 comments
Labels: finance/economics
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