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POPSHow H1N1 Will Spread Rapidly (Transcription) Office worker 1: "You have the flu?! Why didn't you stay home?" Office worker 2: "And look like a slacker in this economic climate?"
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POPSHow our brains are hardwired to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous. "The system is also activated by particular types of cues that a reward is coming. In order to have the maximum effect, the cues should be small, discrete, specific—like the bell Pavlov rang for his dogs. Panksepp says a way to drive animals into a frenzy is to give them only tiny bits of food: This simultaneously stimulating and unsatisfying tease sends the seeking system into hyperactivity. Berridge says the "ding" announcing a new e-mail or the vibration that signals the arrival of a text message serves as a reward cue for us. And when we respond, we get a little piece of news, making us want more. These information nuggets may be as uniquely potent for humans as a Froot Loop to a rat. When you give a rat a minuscule dose of sugar, it engenders "a panting appetite," Berridge says—a powerful and not necessarily pleasant state."
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POPSOf Princesses and Dragons From the "If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right" node on Everything2.com, a site that, much like Wikipedia, can suck you in for hours with its hyperlinks and subject matter.
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POPSBuildings That Blog "Less invasively (but less interestingly) perhaps the building sprays free wifi, and the landing page for the wifi connection is that blog." An idea from the mind of Warren Ellis.
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POPSIs she worth marrying? Or at least keeping around for a bit? The author (not me) asserts that he's tried this with 3 girls with long-term potential ... "Girl #1 : Reached over and turned them off .. several times because I kept turning them on ... she never said a word. This girl ending up being psychotic and tried to kill me ... without saying a word." "Girl #2: Kept asking why I was doing it ... proceeded to tell me I was stupid ... began to yell at me ... then told me that she hated that part about me ... I never spoke to her again" "Girl #3: Just sat there like nothing was wrong. Finally I felt stupid and turned them off myself. Then I felt embarrassed. This girl I'd marry ... but she thinks I'm crazy."
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POPSSupport Project Erin! Downloading one file everyday may help save a life...
I'm Rebekah, and this is my first clip here. :D Well, I figured I should pimp this part out of the Project Erin Site. Erin is a 29 year old living in the US who suffers from two painful Neurological disorders- (Chiari malformation and cranial lesions). She is not begging for donations, all she asks is that you download one 3 kb text document a day to support her (virus/spyware/malware free)! If she gets 5 million downloads on the file, she will get $10,000 enough to cover some of her medical expenses. Just go to the her site, give it a looking over. I've personally downloaded the file- it simply states everything on the front page of the website. Please just give it a consideration, yeah? It doesn't hurt you at all to do it, just 10 seconds or so to download the file. Easy as pie! If you're feeling generous, her site offers where to donate. http://community.livejournal.com/projectdownload/318.html www.projecterin.com (I just want to send some hits and luck her way
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POPSU.S. Medical Students Taught Too Little About Wartime Ethics "The abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have galvanized much of the world against the U.S. Those abuses, in part abetted by physicians, will likely go down as one of our country's most egregious ethical lapses," lead author Dr. J. Wesley Boyd said in a prepared statement.
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POPSStone head mystery leaves area vexed "It appeared last Monday in the early hours of the morning," said Fiona Gould, the owner of the Forresters Arms Hotel in the village of Kilburn, North Yorkshire. "I love it. We've nicknamed it Forest Lump. We've put him on the end of the bar and he gets a pat on the head before everyone goes to the races."
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POPSNew peer-to-peer mobile system holds potential for free calls TerraNet founder Anders Carlius said that the idea came when he was on safari in Tanzania in 2002, and found that he could not ring friends riding in another jeep only a few meters away. "I started thinking, 'Couldn't we get phone-to-phone without needing any other equipment, and actually have real voice communication, like a telephone call, between units?'" He admits there are problems with having enough available frequencies.
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POPSHow a statistical formula ((M-1)(S+1)/S) won the war "The basic idea was that the highest serial number among the captured tanks could be used to calculate the overall total. The German tanks were numbered as follows: 1, 2, 3 ... N, where N was the desired total number of tanks produced. Imagine that they had captured five tanks, with serial numbers 20, 31, 43, 78 and 92. They now had a sample of five, with a maximum serial number of 92. Call the sample size S and the maximum serial number M. After some experimentation with other series, the statisticians reckoned that a good estimator of the number of tanks would probably be provided by the simple equation (M-1)(S+1)/S. In the example given, this translates to (92-1)(5+1)/5, which is equal to 109.2. Therefore the estimate of tanks produced at that time would be 109."
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POPSThe Myth that Image DPI Is Relevant To Web Images The source site, emdpi.com, seems to be a great site for clearing up common misconceptions about basic graphics terminology and definitions. For example, it also mentions that the "em" is -not- "a square the size of the letter M" (I'd seen that one before), and explains that in Windows, an inch as defined by Microsoft might not be an actual physical inch - and why.
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