http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/anonymity-experiment?page=0

In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker. So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited. When he put the information together, he was able to discover so much about himself–from detailed financial information to the fact that he was circumcised–that his publisher, concerned about his privacy, didn’t let him include it all in the book.

http://www.myaspartameexperiment.com/

From the page: “My aspartame experiment – A female rat developed a mammary tumor so large she often used it as a pillow”

http://8aweek.com/

A Firefox add-on to measure your Internet usage

http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2008/02/mockbusters-vs-blockbusters.html?=rss

http://www.newsweek.com/id/110652?g=1

From the page: “Some experts argue that even the most politically correct among us may harbor unconscious prejudices against ethnic groups, women, gays and others. Can these dark impulses shape our actions?”

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-02-14-bonds-steroid-positive_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids in November 2000, less than a year before he broke baseball’s season home run record, U.S. prosecutors charged Thursday.

The U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco charged in an indictment released in November 2007 that Bonds had tested positive for “anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2008/news/story?id=3246492

‘Pedro Martinez knows his place in the Steroids Era.

“I dominated that era and I did it clean,” he said. “I can stand by my numbers and I can be proud of them.”‘

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/education/7245122.stm

“Ex-servicemen and women should be retrained as teachers to bring military style discipline to tough inner city schools, a think tank has said.

The government is being urged to adopt a US-style programme returning former soldiers, sailors and airmen to school.

The Centre for Policy Studies says ex-soldiers could have a profound effect on discipline and learning.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/02/twittering_a_yahoo_exit.html

“Blogging about your departure from a job isn’t new. But real time updates of your final hours via Twitter may well be.

Ryan Kuder is one of the unfortunate 1,000 staff who lost their jobs at Yahoo this week. “

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/218

Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin plays and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs include the classic “Autumn Leaves” and Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life”.