earrings and necklaces with charms in the shape of important chemicals, such as caffeine, estrogen, chocolate, serotonin, GABA
Month: January 2007
Markets Work, Even in Oil
oil consumption in the OECD fell 0.6% in 2006. It marks the first annual drop in more than 20 years among the OECD countries, which drain close to 60% of the 84.4M barrels of oil used globally each day.
General Intelligence
graphing IQ standard deviation against other cultural and societal measures. quite striking
Conceptualizing a cyborg
The nervous system will certainly rebel if you place hard or sharp electrodes into it to record signals. However, the nervous system can be tricked to accept an interface letting it do what it likes – assimilating new nerve cells into its own network
Cheap Hotel, Better Network?
basically, all the business hotel chains suck for doing actual work. they cater to wankers who pretend to work by slacking off in meetings.
Recommendation value
Personalization and recommendations apparently are responsible for 35% of sales at Amazon.com.
Infrared Webcam
I don’t even want to know what you’re doing in the dark with a webcam, so let’s keep that under wraps, shall we?
heh
Microsummary Adium status
just what i need! except i haven’t dared running the plazer inside google corp yet 🙂
2-way mapping
So — when does mapping become a 2-way app? I’d be willing to tell their software that I have a better route, it’s one that comes from living here, and being a cab driver here.
Geocoding Pages
people wondering how to geotag each page of a site. most were using ICBM tags on a per site basis, but why not per page.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 