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31 Mar 2008
Hackers Flood Epilepsy Web Forum With Flashing Lights
Hundreds of flashing images were posted on an epilepsy discussion board, apparently in hopes of inducing seizures.
National pursuit of happiness pays off
Boston Herald - Apr. 1 (News Report) - You can fret about economic indicators if you want to. But Bhutan's bureaucrats are zeroed in on happiness. The Himalayan kingdom measures its progress not in Gross Domestic Product, but in Gross National Happiness. King Jigme Singye Wangchuck invented the concept in 1972 as a measurement of fair and sustainable economic development, promotion of cultural values, environmental conservation and good government.NewsTrust Rating: 3.0 from source rating - Review It
Britain, America and God
ScienceBlogs.com - By Jonah Lehrer - Apr. 1 (Blog Post) - The Economist has compiled a really interesting chart on the ideological differences between the American and British electorates. (I've been kind of obsessed with all things Anglo-American since the start of the John Adams miniseries on HBO.) The article focuses on the large gap between the two publics, but I was actually impressed by how, once you removed God and God-tainted issues (like abortion and homosexuality) from the equation, the two countries were actually rather similar in ways I...NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Men misperceive sexual interest in women
ScienceBlogs.com - By Jake Young - Apr. 1 (Review) - Farris et al. have a paper coming out in Psychological Science about how men tend to misperceive sexual interest in women. I get the sense that this is a big problem for many women. Any woman who has spent more than 30 seconds in a bar has had at least one random yo-yo hit on them despite what they perceive as clear negative signals. So I am happy that someone is addressing this issue. I do have a couple concerns about this paper, but let's leave those til the end.NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Encephalon Goes to Paris (Hilton)
ScienceBlogs.com - By Shelly Batts, Styeve Higgins - Apr. 1 (Review) - Welcome to the most recent installation of the neuroscience blog carnival, Encephelon, here at Of Two Minds! Steve and I thought we would mix things up a little bit and let a guest blogger summarize the best brain blogging (submitted to us (this week)). That guest is none other that famed socialite Paris Hilton, who wished to take this opportunity to attempt to change her image from fashionista to neuronista. Please welcome Paris!NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Happiness can be inherited, research finds
Canada.com - By Michael Kahn, Maggie Fox, Mary Gabriel - Apr. 1 (Review) - You can't buy happiness but it looks like you can at least inherit it, British and Australian researchers said on Thursday. A study of nearly 1,000 pairs of identical and non-identical twins found genes control half the personality traits that make people happy while factors such as relationships, health and careers are responsible for the rest of our well-being.NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Change Blindness
New York Times - By Natalie Angier - Apr. 1 (Review) - Leave it to a vision researcher to make you feel like Mr. Magoo. When Jeremy Wolfe of Harvard Medical School, speaking last week at a symposium devoted to the crossover theme of Art and Neuroscience, wanted to illustrate how the brain sees the world and how often it fumbles the job, he naturally turned to a great work of art. He flashed a slide of Ellsworth Kelly's "Study for Colors for a Large Wall" on the screen, and the audience couldn't help but perk to attention...NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
MSI launches 13.3-inch notebook
March 31, 2008
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
Micro-Star International (MSI) has announced the VR340, a 13.3-inch notebook which weighs 2.2kg, making it a suitable choice for consumers, who need mobility, according to the company. ...
Discussions:- TGDaily.com - Latest ...: MSI launches 13.3-inch notebook
- Engadget: MSI's 13.3-inch VR340 laptop ain't too pretty, spe ...
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More Free and Legal Torrents: Legaltorrents.com Relaunches [NewTeeVee]
March 31, 2008
GigaOM Network / Janko Roettgers
Legaltorrents.com, one of the oldest and most prominent destinations for legal BitTorrent downloads, is relaunching today, and its new version offers a bunch of new features for users and content crea ...
Discussions:- P2P Blog: More Free and Legal Torrents: Legaltorrents.com Re ...
- Download Squad: LegalTorrents relaunches, with a whopping 44 torre ...
- GigaOM Network: GigaNET AM: Green Homes & Open Source Brands [Giga ...
- GigaOM: gigaomeditor
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Mitchell Baker: Mozilla Turns 10 Today
March 31, 2008
Planet Mozilla / mitchell
Today is a special day. March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It’s the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source ...
Discussions:- tuxmachines.org - Do ...: Mozilla Turns 10 Today
- Wired: Compiler: In Honor of Mozilla's 10th Birthday, JWZ Recreates ...
- nextwebgen.com: Happy 10 Year Birthday Mozilla
- TrustedReviews Site- ...: Firefox Turns Ten
- shaver: ten
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Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
March 31, 2008
ZDNet Blogs / Denise Howell
The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should ...
Discussions:- Media Sector and Sto ...: Why Hollywood Hates the TiVo Consumers Love
- Silicon Moon: News & Links List
- Gizmo Lovers Blog: Hollywood Still Doesn’t ‘Get’ Technology Suc ...
- Thomas Hawk's Digita ...: Hollywood Hates Your TiVo
- WebProNews Feed: TiVo Comes Under Attack
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Yahoo Launches Its Woman’s Site Shine; Deals With Conde Nast, …
March 31, 2008
paidContent.org / Rafat Ali
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has launched its ambitious woman's site called Shine, bringing together content from other smaller sections of Yahoo, with original content and syndication deals with the likes of C ...
Discussions:- Yahoo! Finance: Inte ...: ZenithOptimedia Upgrades Online Ad Spend To 23.4 P ...
- All Things Digital: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. [Digital Daily]
- Digital Daily: You’ve Come a Long Way, Jerry.
- BuzzMachine: The last portal
- TechBlog: Linkpost | 3.31.2008
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Creative Labs Stops Guy From Making Its Technology Work Better
March 31, 2008
Techdirt / Michael Masnick
It appears that Creative Labs is the latest company to shoot itself in the foot over "intellectual property" issues. Apparently, many users have been upset that Creative has failed to support certain ...
Discussions:- TechnologyOwl.com: Creative Labs Stops Guy From Making Its Technology ...
- Just another Geeks B ...: Boundless Depths of Dumb
- Boing Boing Gadgets: Creative Stops Hacker from Improving Their Product
- aTypical Joe: a gay ...: Creative Labs not very creative IP solution!
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Sony films headed to mobile phones (Reuters)
March 31, 2008
Yahoo! News: Cellular Phones
Reuters - Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the United States. ...
Discussions:- Computer Advice: Sony’s PIX brings full-length films to AT&T Mobi ...
- Phone Scoop - Latest ...: Sony Movie Channel Coming to AT&T's Mobile TV Serv ...
- TechBlog: Linkpost | 3.31.2008
- CrunchGear: Sony brings movies to AT&T Wireless via MediaFLO
- Engadget: Sony's PIX brings full-length films to AT&T Mo ...
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Hear us roar
March 31, 2008
Yodel Anecdotal / Brandon Holley
This isn’t exactly a secret, but we’ve unveiled a new website for women today, called Yahoo! Shine. When our editorial team — which includes editors that hail from Lucky to Jane to the Wall Stre ...
Discussions:- Yahoo! Finance: Inte ...: What Yahoo Could Bring to Microsoft: Some Media Se ...
- Sound Money Tips - M ...: What Yahoo Could Bring to Microsoft: Some Media Se ...
- All Things Digital: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. [Digital Daily]
- Search Engine Land: ...: Yahoo Takes A "Shine" To Women 25 To 54
- Darren Herman - Mark ...: What Women Want: Clothing (Part 1 of Series)
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Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck (Anil Dash)
Anil Dash:
Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck — Having been blogging for a few years, I've developed a few annual traditions. This one's a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool's jokes on the web. Every year, I get called a curmudgeon, or lambasted for having no sense of humor.
YouTube RickRolls Users (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube RickRolls Users — If you aren't familiar with RickRolling - it's when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley's “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up. — YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1.
Web-based time machine!
Aviary is excited to announce the launch of it's newest application, Dodo, the web-based time machine. For example, Dodo changed this scene from an ordinary spring landscape to winter, using Dodo's built-in database of geographically accurate weather history. We see market opportunity for Dodo across ...
Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck
Having been blogging for a few years, I've developed a few annual traditions. This one's a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool's jokes on the web. Every year, I get called a curmudgeon, or lambasted for having no sense of humor. ...