http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0502/one.htm

One man’s finest hour was the end of another man’s life as he knew it.

IAN McNEILLY looks back at the triumph and tragedy that was Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan

http://www.shorttext.com/6ttkbu

From the page: “A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.”

http://www.freakingnews.com/index.php/Money-Celebrities-Pictures—1773.asp

http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/7-powerful-steps-to-overcoming-resistance-and-actually-getting-stuff-done/

Overcoming resistance to work.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL15569920080121

Five key factors can help predict whether at-risk young people will go on to develop schizophrenia, researchers have found.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1306/

“Apparently, the sixth generation iPods and the iPhone have been designed to be 100% unfixable.”

These devices have to have the whole body removed (and trashed) to facilitate a repair. Green Apple?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flod/2203668139/

http://le-trash.com/2008/01/15/quiltsryche-evil-rock-quilts-by-boo-davis/

http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/jennifer-maestr.html?cid=97761910

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all

Really interesting article on the separate suicide deaths of two AI pioneers. Article also links to stumbler Alphabet Soup’s blog – Alphabet Soup