http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hungry-Mothers-Have-Children-Prone-to-Drug-Addiction-77289.shtml
Having an addiction problem? Well, this may mean that your mother did not eat well after conceiving you. A new research published in the journal “Addiction” shows that children whose mothers passed through a period of famine are prone to addictions later in life.
http://jamhottle.stumbleupon.com/
I think here we have the reincarnation of a French surrealist poet.
Branding is no longer for Fortune 500 companies and Madison Avenue agencies with excessive budgets and inadequate tracking.
Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records.
http://www.geekpreneur.com/everyday-algorithms-and-what-they-are-used-for
We take them for granted but without them — and the unsung tech-head heroes who write them — we wouldn’t be able to get to work, sort our emails from the spam, search the Web or do a gazillion other things that algorithms make possible.
http://taylorsentertainmentnews.com/index.php/2008/01/27/heath-ledgers-final-painting/
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
Experience of using twitter in the classroom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7196061.stm
Fulham technical director Les Reed on why African players have become so skilled and important to European sides.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_8083336
The way Leo Hill figures it, every roll of toilet paper he’s used since mid-2006 has shorted him at least one sitting.
That’s a lot of tissue.
Acting on an idea from his wife, Doris, the 81-year-old former maintenance worker set out to settle a problem.
“She complained that a roll in the 12-pack would last just three days and the same size in the four-roll pack lasted four,” Hill explained. “I wanted to find out.”
Hill figured he had the time, since there wasn’t much else to do but read or stare at the shower curtain. So he counted every sheet of toilet paper as he used it.
From the page: “Custom Max external using online clustering to map feature vectors of bark values onto frames from movie clips. Inspired by various VJing techniques.”
Or two Edwardian ladies smacking crap out of each other to hip-hop.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20071228-000005.xml
“Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here’s how to think straight about dangers in your midst.”