Think Yourself Healthy by Appreciating the Exercise You Already Do (6)
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How strong do you think the link is between mind and body? For example, is it possible to think yourself fitter without doing any additional exercise, but by simply better appreciating how much exercise you already do? A recent experiment by Alia Crum and Professor Ellen Langer of Harvard University suggests the incredible answer is yes.Dr Ben Goldacre at Bad Science (although this is good science!) describes the study which was carried out on hotel ...
A Nominee For “SMH 2008…” (2)
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LC Weber (0)
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…sigh… How this one went under the radar for eight months, I’ll never know. There’s way too much to say here… The girl in the background with the little rock bounce throughout. The pouring out of the liquor in the cemetery. The kids. The random entrance of stills toward the end. And the hook, fam. The HOOK. I appreciate T-Baby for tackling a very serious subject… I’m just not sure she fully grasped the inevitable ...
Google's Services Converge in the New iGoogle (117)
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Ionut Alex Chitu (1055)
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Is this Google Reader? It's actually an iGoogle feed in canvas view, which happens to borrow Google Reader's interface. If you click on the drop-down, you can access all your Google Reader subscriptions.Is this Gmail? It's the Gmail gadget in canvas view, but you get almost all the features available in Gmail's standard interface.Is this Gmail Chat? It's the chat feature from Gmail integrated in iGoogle's sidebar so that you can chat with your contacts ...
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Götz said:
Quick tip to access the new iGoogle:
- go to google.com/ig
- paste this in the address bar:
javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1');
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Scott said:
Suddenly iGoogle becomes much more the central hub that I want it to be."
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chachra said:
This is awesome. I might use the Google Personalized homepage more now!
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Olivier G. said:
Si vous voulez tester le nouveau google IG, suivez la procédure en bas.
PS : Comme par hasard chez moi le chat ne marche pas :(
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Mihai said:
Yay, people are noticing this (the iGoogle feed canvas view is my most recent Reader project).
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howking said:
かっこいい。よーやくiGoogle使おうかなって気になった。
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senpi said:
our new information-consuming-mad-going-future
The past and future of competitive eating injuries. (1)
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On July 4, six-time Nathan's-hot-dog-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi will try to reclaim his title from Joey Chestnut. Last year, Joey Chestnut set a world record at the Coney Island contest by downing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. In a 2007 "Sports Nut," Jason Fagone explained the brutal consequences of eating all that meat. The piece is reprinted below.[more ...]
Dean Kamen's Luke arm now has mind-control and 3D-spatial interfaces (3)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots Inventor extraordinaire Dean Kamen spoke at D today about the latest developments in the Luke arm. Not that it wasn't already impressive enough, but Kamen's company, DEKA Research, has made even more amazing developments in the arm's interface, complementing the early mechanical controls with spatial and neural interfaces. The shot above was taken of a man with transected nerves, which were interfaced directly to the arm, enabling him to delicately ...
Improvising a Jazz Tune Puts the Brain in an Altered State [Scientific American Mind] (1)
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Jazz greats have said that spinning off an improvised tune is like entering another world, and a new study has provided that world’s first map. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health gave six professional jazz pianists a few days to memorize a never-before-seen tune. The musicians then tickled the ivories while being scanned by an MRI machine, playing the novel composition and an improvisation in the same key.As compared with the memorized melody, the ...
Spreadable electronics mean OLED TVs may power themselves (1)
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Not satisfied with a future vision that already includes flexible screens and wafer-thin phones, a pair of Japanese companies has pushed the envelope to come up with far-fetched gadgets that do all of the above without ever going near a power socket. The key to the work by Mitsubishi Chemical and Sumitomo Chemical lies in so-called spreadable electronics – liquids containing molecules of the type used in OLED screens. Engineers like Tokitaro Hoshijima at Mitsubishi ...
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...usable prototype...within the next two years.
Utopia Ho! (1)
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This post caught my eye: If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters. With a $500,000 donation from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a Google engineer and a former Sun Microsystems programmer have launched The Seasteading Institute, an organization dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities "with diverse social, political, and legal systems."
Stunning urban animation crosses genre boundaries - and walls (1)
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Heck - it’s nothing to do with either Japan or technology (at least, not directly), but it is an absolutely stunning piece of animation work by a bona-fide genius. It’s not often I’ll sit through an entire art project video, but Muto had me wishing it was feature-length. Check it out for yourself: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. (From Blu Via FPS) {extended}
Despite having no basketball playing ability or experience, college junior... (1)
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Despite having no basketball playing ability or experience, college junior Zach Feinstein has declared himself for the 2008 NBA Draft. You can find him listed on the NBA's official early entry list under "unknown individuals". (thx, jared) (link)
City Café Bakery in Kitchener, Ontario doesn't have a cash register.... (1)
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City Café Bakery in Kitchener, Ontario doesn't have a cash register. Instead, they let their customers add up their own bill and put the money into a an old bus fare box. Here's how it works: "I liked the idea of simplifying things and ... the honour system made a whole lot of sense," Bergen says. "What irritated me about going into Tim Hortons, for example, was waiting in line for something as simple as ...
Wingnut Church Changes Obama-Osama Church Sign [The South] (1)
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When God decided that fundamentalist Christians would have to be poor and obese, he gave them a consolation prize: Their churches could have tacky letterboard signs out front, just like those equipment rental warehouses out on the frontage road or county highway. These signs are used to share comical slogans with the heathens who race by in their fancy foreign cars with "airbags" and "valid registrations." One such church in South Carolina recently put up ...
5OH7: Dear Dad, wow, is that really a G-Unit shirt you're wearing? Wow. Sincerely, Boom (1)
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5OH7: Dear Dad, wow, is that really a G-Unit shirt you're wearing? Wow. Sincerely, Boom
Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake [Solar] (1)
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Eco start-up company Sungevity is launching a new web application on Earth Day (three days away, people!) that will take the guess work out of solar panel installations. Enter your address on Sungevity's website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof's dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays and calculate how much money you'll save on energy costs. Once you place an order, the site will ship one of five ...
Samsung aiming for water-powered cellphones by 2010 (1)
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Filed under: Cellphones We've seen quite a few prototype fuel-cell powered mobile devices, but Samsung's upping the ante by predicting that we'll all be running our phones on water by 2010. The company says it's developed a method to generate hydrogen by exposing water to metal, but the details are a little shaky -- we're guessing it's similar to the system used in the HydroPak generator, but it's hard to tell. Still, we've got no ...
The military's plan to regrow body parts. (1)
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Colorful Environmental 'Time' Cover Offends Veterans [Trees Are Gay] (1)
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Now this is a creative graphic from America's Magazine of Record, Time, which will grace the cover for its upcoming green issue. (Hey, wasn't that Vanity Fair's gimmick-issue to begin with?) Of course it is a play on the famous Iwo Jima photo/statue from World War II, which was a fake to begin with. Naturally, Iwo Jima veterans are very offended that their fake posing photo is being used to promote something as Communist as ...
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How would microcredit work for musicians? Just asking that question of myself and the world at the same time. Please add your thoughts in the comments, here, and I’ll post a 2nd post about this soon. Please see… the Wikipedia page about microcredit microplace.com - on the SEC, backed by eBay prosper.com - P2P loans of all types kiva.org - which gives no return, just appeals to charitable intentions sellaband.com - the only similar idea ...Shared by eighthrs (17)Contribute commentSlashdot (2872) permalink
WiglyWorm writes "MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson sent out an email to all users of the online music backup and place-shifting service MP3tunes.com, asking them to help publicize EMI's ridiculous and ignorant lawsuit against the company. EMI believes that consumers aren't allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service."Read more of this story at Slashdot.Shared by eighthrs (17)Contribute comment
