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Phys Ed: Does Exercise Boost Immunity? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
imabonehead, Ruchira S. Datta, Derrick and 4 other people liked this
"Two recent experiments hit rather close to home at this time of year. In the first, published last year in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, researchers divided mice into two groups. One rested comfortably in their cages. The other ran on little treadmills until they were exhausted. This continued for three days. The mice were then exposed to an influenza virus. After a few days, more of the mice who’d exhausted themselves running came down with the flu than the control mice. They also had more severe symptoms. In the second experiment, published in the same journal, scientists from the University of Illinois and other schools first infected laboratory mice with flu. One group then rested; a second group ran for a leisurely 20 or 30 minutes, an easy jog for a mouse; the third group ran for a taxing two and a half hours. Each group repeated this routine for three days, until they began to show flu symptoms. The flu bug used in this experiment is devastating to rodents, and...
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- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"The bulk of the new research, including the mouse studies mentioned, reinforce a theory that physiologists advanced some years ago, about what they call “a J-shaped curve” involving exercise and immunity. In this model, the risk both of catching a cold or the flu and of having a particularly severe form of the infection “drop if you exercise moderately,” says Mary P. Miles, PhD, an...
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- RAPatton
My personal experience supports this research. It's all about Goldilocks exercise: not too much, not too little, but just right.
- Aaron Schaub
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Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party | Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org/columns...
Nispell, Brad Williamson, Daniel Rowley and 6 other people liked this
"Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity. Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan embrace means the news media have to expand beyond typing up Fox News-ratings-are-up and the White-House-is-angry stories, and it needs to start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal. The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players --not to get bogged down in criticizing the competition -- because those newsroom rules no longer apply. Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It's a purely political player, and journalists ought to start covering it that way."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
it's probably best to assume that all media is partisan, and be pleasantly surprised if it ever turns out otherwise :D
- Mike Chelen
Rene: bias is to be knowingly misleading. isn't that typical yellow journalism?
- Mike Chelen
Rene: although viewpoints are always subjective, it is refusing to look for bias that guarantees an increase of objective discrepancies. how can anyone start to be unbiased without self-criticism?
- Mike Chelen
They have been a republican-mouthpiece for years now, why did it take MM so long to call them out?
- dthree
The key to the concept of bias is having a vested interest. For instance, nearly every journalist who's a native son of a democracy is bias toward values based on democratic principals—no one I know personally is going to complain about a beat reporter doing their job with that bias in full swing. Fingers are pointing at the Fox enterprise in particular because they've wholesale *divested* their interest in anything outside the present incarnation of the hardline conservative political culture.
- Micah
Bloomberg Acquires BusinessWeek for Less Than $5 Million - http://mashable.com/2009...
Brad Williamson liked this
"Bloomberg intends to use the BusinessWeek brand to reach out to a wider array of business executives and government officials in an effort to make new inroads in the consumer realm. The BusinessWeek logo will be changed to incorporate the Bloomberg brand in some way."
- polou/indigo_bow
from Bookmarklet
oh sigh, the value of news becomes devalued once again!
- polou/indigo_bow
That s the way (a-ha a-ha) I like it! (a-ha a-ha) - http://meme.yahoo.com/wrzl...
Mark Douglass, مستانه, Armand and 45 other people liked this
yok daha neler :)
- Fatih Koçak
Lebron¿?
- Barış Evren Erdoğan
Yok artık
- Ömer Ekinci
feyk bu...
- Sarper Sılaoğlu
cg
- pohaca
MÜKEMMEL
- EYÜP
feyk değil bu :))
- Oğuzhan Başar
bu adamdan Pitt Stop'a 4 tane koysan süper takım olurdu :))
- Arapprensi
Tam isabetttttttttttttttttt:D
- Seda Bayıroğlu
something feels off
- vijay
feykin babası olmuş :)
- "I'm the Dude"
super shot.-enter this in guiness book of world records.
- R_ C
Sad we can see the special effect ...
- Duff
wow
- afrodit
Godaddy $5 domain promo code: FACEBOOK5
Müjdat Korkmaz, linsk, Ali BULUT and 16 other people liked this
:) Actually there are $1 or $2 promo codes on Godaddy room: http://friendfeed.com/godaddy
- Ozer Wrzl (EN)
i love godaddy :)
- krsnsk (Fatih)
how much does it cost to buy a ".com" domain now? it was 7 $ when i last bought...
- Ümit Orhan
thanks :)
- Hüseyin Berberoğlu
thanks.
- Gökmen Karasu
hürmetler :)
- Fırat Demirel
dün calisti, bugun calismiyor..tek seferlik mi acaba.
- Gökmen Karasu
Bir kişi için tek kullanımlıktır bu kodlar.
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
Kod çoktan ölmüş , güncel kodlarda şurası çok iyi http://livecodes.blogspot.com
- Godaddy Promo Coder
Google Earth to Track People Move in Real Time [VIDEO] http://www.techwall.org/softwar...
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, Wulffy, Brad Williamson and 3 other people liked this
Uhhhh creeeepy
- sofarsoShawn
THAT. IS. NUTS. WOW WEE WOW...
- Brad Williamson
@ least it's in Mixed and Augmented Reality rather than real time video surveillance
- polou/indigo_bow
shared: http://ff.im/9tioI
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Murat Yaman to Murat's feed, Funny Pics and Videos, Photography as Art, Photography Tips, Tricks, and Know-How
E V O L U T I O N - Раздел ню - Фотографии на Фото.Сайте - Photosight.ru - http://www.photosight.ru/photos...
Dylan Parker, gmarketer, O_O and 10 other people liked this
mis :)
- kaloglu[twitter]
12 Tips for Creating a Great Portfolio Site... - http://www.noupe.com/design...
Praveen Vasudev, Myrna and Brad Williamson liked this
Kasabian - Vlad the Impaler http://www.youtube.com/watch... #musicmonday
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If you use iTunes on Mac and aren't using Pollux you're missing a treat. http://polluxapp.com/ - free but I just donated. It's so good.
Kolja, ChiliMac, Brad Williamson and 23 other people liked this
Too bad I don't trust anyone's genre assignations other than my own.
- Akiva
thanks for the tip.
- Edgar Rodríguez
thanks leo,now i may have to download it and try it out! looks nice :)
- pcguru626
It just tagged one of my original tunes to Edie Brickell, but otherwise it seems to be getting them all correct!
- B Bagby
I'll give it a try, thax for the info Leo
- Alex
Looks cool, any Windows support coming?
- lawrence kenski
Did you bring down their server? It says something went wrong and to try again later. Or maybe it is not working.
- Alex
it's awesome, i too shall donate
- Paul Meyers
Anything like this at all for the PC.
- Mark Wolvin
It get's my highest praise, "Doesn't suck."
- Steve Feinstein
ok, im amazed. just correctly corrected 162 out of 170 tracks with "track xyz" as their title.
- Jamie
I don't get how you can get your iTunes library in such a state: http://polluxapp.com/Screens... Without using this app, my iTunes library has all the necessary metadata, and I didn't make any effort to have it like that.
- Paul Grav
Anything similar on windows, on iTunes or foobar or winamp or anything? I'd like to see a program that has a "search for year info on Wikipedia" option. Actually, why isn't there an app where I can manually correct track info on my iPhone while I'm listening and have the corrections sync back?
- Chuck Kahn
Thanks for the link leo!
- Jan Persiel
It may be a coincidence, but I sent this link to my husband and when he tried to download the application he had to force quit Safari and it triggered all kinds of virus messages! He said he was not willing to try to duplicate the problem!
- Ginger Campbell, MD
So, don't run this on compilation/greatest hits albums, unless you want the songs retagged to the original albums.
- Demian Johnston
@Chuck Kahn - A cross platform (albeit more complex) tagger is Jaikox - http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/ I've been using it on the Mac for about a year, much more complicated - and not free... but it works.
- Christopher Aloi
It just gave me errors. F that.
- deleted
I liked it until it ended up misidentifying a great deal of songs, now I have to take the time to manually edit them back. Or just break out the CDs and rip them all over again. It can't tell the difference between tracks from a live album versus their studio recorded counterparts. It gets an E for effort.
- Bryan K Erickson
It also gets in this state if you were managing music well before iTunes came to PC.
- Eric - Too Hot
from iPhone
When I used to do stuff in Windows, I used MP3Tag.
- Akiva
Hooo-Rah!
- Eric Anderson
This app worked perfect for me. Well done!
- Mike Shulman
I downloaded it and it did not do anything.
- Kelly J
@Kelly J: You need to highlight some songs in iTunes and then click "Tag selected iTunes tracks".
- Antoniu
Very cool idea, but I have tried it on two albums and it got one song wrong both times. It also hasn't grabbed lyrics on any song I've tried so far, and that was main reason for trying it. All my stuff is tagged properly already. Any apps that just grab the lyrics?
- Justin Luey
...well, it is 'beta' software, or has that label lost all meaning these days?
- .LAG liked that
I think some of the data it uses is a bit suspect. One artist, two versions of the same song but different lengths, and they're classed as being from the same album. What's with the lyrics bit - where do they appear?
- Mike Caine
Cat Survives 13 Shots to Head and Still Finds Way Home | Amazing | News | PEOPLE Pets - http://www.peoplepets.com/news...
Jaccqueline Ng, rowlikeagirl, Headless Gnad Kicker and 24 other people liked this
"A furry gray cat named Smokey strayed from his home, was held down by a heartless thug and shot in the head 13 times—and survived. In a tale of sickening cruelty and remarkable spirit, 9-year-old Smokey turned up at the doorstep of his home in Carisbrook, Australia, one morning, several days after disappearing. His owner, Liz Dunn, burst into tears when she saw him; little Smokey’s face was battered and bleeding, and his left eye appeared shredded."
- Kelly
from Bookmarklet
"Police have launched an investigation to identify Smokey’s attackers. Meanwhile, the sweet-natured cat is back home with Dunn and her children (above), who marvel at Smokey’s resilience—he not only survived the horrific attack but somehow managed to find his way back home with only one eye. Police say Smokey is expected to recover from his injuries."
- Kelly
Poor, brave kitty :(
- Kelly
I hate people. :(
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
Amazing kitty!
- Anne Bouey
poor kitty!
- Jessie
Wow! What a poor sweet kitty!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I like the look on the kitty's face, it's very "Duh I survived, look at me, I'm AWESOME"
- Kelly
Yay kitty! I hope they catch the cruel sick assholes.
- adf
this PISSES ME OFF and I don't even like cats. Damn!
- Jim #TeamMonique
Wow! What a sad and inspiring story! :,)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from iPhone
ok where's my pellet gun, i wanna shoot that asshat who did this to the kitty
- Susan Beebe
Ha proprio la pellaccia dura questo gatto! Grande micio! E schifosi quelli che gli hanno fatto questo.
- Alessandro Marocchini
Not only is it a horrendous act, people who treat animals like that move on to treating people that way. Best find the bastard/s pronto.
- Spidra Webster
no worries, my thoughts on the matter are similar.
- Joe Silence
I'm with you MVB!
- AJ Batac
wow! and ++ MVB
- vijay
+1 Spidra. >:O
- rowlikeagirl
Um, Dairy Queen? What are you trying to say here?
Scott. Cat Herder., rowlikeagirl, Comics Forge and 28 other people liked this
made with real girl scouts! wow, don't see that too often anymore :)
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Mmmm. Soylentty....
- Thaths
Makes me want a bottle of White Out, a Sharpie, and 1 minute alone with that sign. It could be made into a noun.
- FFing Enigma
glad i was never a girl scout tagalong :)
- (jeff)isageek
Wednesday finally got her way.
- Tony Miller
Tony, I had the same thought. :)
- The LB: #TeamMonique
No wonder America is sooo fat..
- orionstarr
Yes, but are they /organic/ girl scouts? You have to have standards.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Haha! This is great :)
- Alisha764
*bump* because this still makes me laugh
- The LB: #TeamMonique
Look what domain Google just got... http://dropbox.com/
Kol Tregaskes, Kevin Mohr, Laura Norvig and 6 other people liked this
I think its a bit weird that dropbox themselves have getdropbox.com in the first place..
- Simon Wicks
ye olde corporate domain squatting.
- Joe Silence
It's going to be interesting if they use it for Google Storage -> https://www.google.com/account... :)
- AJ Batac
Why would they basically steal another company's name though? Seem's a bit, wrong.
- Simon Wicks
when has being wrong ever stopped a large company from doing something questionable?
- Joe Silence
They'll acquire it!! :)
- directeur
could be.
- Joe Silence
Ooo maybe! I only signed up for it about 30 mins ago, already coming in pretty handy at getting some files off a friend using a shared folder. :)
- Simon Wicks
android dropbox app ppls
- Chris Hofmann
drag and drop storage inside Wave please. -_-
- AJ Batac
wave *sigh*
- Simon Wicks
What makes you think Google got this domain? It's not registered to them according to WHOIS and is currently pointing at Go Daddy name servers.
- Tony Ruscoe
tony google is partners with godaddy and is a 404 page of google that might not be promising but still...
- testbeta
Tony > http://blogoscoped.com/forum... :)
- Jérôme
Google does not generally control its DNS via Go Daddy. I'm pretty sure someone just registered this domain and then pointed it at Google's servers.
- Tony Ruscoe
Can someone post a screenshot of what they're seeing on that domain? It's blocked by my company's proxy server due to "Advertisements & Popups" not being allowed (which makes me even more suspicious).
- Tony Ruscoe
it's a 404 page of google there
- testbeta
It may just be a misconfiguration issue by someone at Godaddy. Or somebody is playing tricks on us to led us to believe dropbox.com is now with Google. :-|
- AJ Batac
Debunked. I think it's pretty clear that Google does not own that domain. The domain owner is likely pointing it at that server to use Google's AdSense for Domains or something (http://www.google.com/domainp...) but may have been banned. The instructions for that service say to update your DNS so that it points at 216.239.32.21 - i.e. the IP address shown here: http://www.robtex.com/dns...
- Tony Ruscoe
Bloggers who don't invest in a good design "until they make some money" are putting things in the wrong order. @copyblogger #izeafest
Brad Williamson and Roberto Bonini liked this
Aline Ohannessian to Aline's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, Social Media Club, The Goodie Room
Chop Any YouTube Video With TubeChop - http://www.designmarketingadve...
Sadakov, Dimitar Vesselinov, Brad Williamson and Ami Iida liked this
Mitchell Tsai, Allen Conquest, kami کامی and 58 other people liked this
Photoshopped! Seriously, congrats AJ! You deserve it :)
- directeur
Hahaha!
- AJ Batac
Congrats!
- A D Williams
Ossum! I'm ericajoybaker@googlewave.com :)
- EricaJoy
Here's me -> ajbatac@googlewave.com :)
- AJ Batac
WHERE'S MINE??
- iTad
Gah!!! Congrats!! *hits refresh on his gmail account many, many times*
- Jim #TeamMonique
Do you get any invites?
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
from iPhone
The invite thing is a nomination... I've nominated some friends and I have a few more. 1st come 1st served. It starts now...
- AJ Batac
Brad, sent you one.
- AJ Batac
@AJ You. Are. A. GOD. If I can every figure out a way to repay ya, I definitely will ;-)
- Brad Williamson
A minion Brad. Minion. ;)
- AJ Batac
Burakb at gmail!
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
from iPhone
Brad, just sing "Ken Lee" for him, he lurbs it :)
- directeur
Burakb, sent.
- AJ Batac
Holden, sent.
- AJ Batac
congrats!
- michael sean wright
AJ, I'd ask for one but if I can ever get my sandbox password working, I probably have an invite sitting there. Totally frustrating.
- Akiva
That's awesome! Thanks AJ! :)
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
from iPhone
Akiva, email?
- AJ Batac
nice!
- .LAG liked that
I got 3 more. LAST THREE!
- AJ Batac
I'm refreshing like crazy too, Holden!
- Brad Williamson
Erica, sent.
- AJ Batac
nathan.chase@gmail.com - thanks in advance!
- Nathan Chase
Nathan, sent.
- AJ Batac
Last one...
- AJ Batac
thomaspower43@gmail.com if you have a spare
- Thomas Power
jasonw22 @ gmail
- Jason Wehmhoener
Man, I keep feverishly refreshing looking for an invite. Crap...missed out rah [at] sheenonline.biz
- Rahsheen
Thomas got the last one. Sorry guys. :( No moar.
- AJ Batac
awesome AJ - thanks! Much appreciated... really looking forward to checking it out!
- Nathan Chase
google doesn't care about me...
- Michael Hannah
To those who I nominated. It's not an instant thing.
- AJ Batac
I have nominated you then google will put you on queue. But you have been guaranteed a spot.
- AJ Batac
:)
- AJ Batac
You got it, Holden?
- Brad Williamson
iDrool :-)
- Majento
There are no guarantees in life except death.
- Akiva
I'm not even real sure WHY i'm so excited, but I sure am! Damn, Google knows how to build some cryptic buzz! I mean... I get the gist of it, but there are still so many unknowns...
- Brad Williamson
hey thanks AJ you're a Star
- Thomas Power
Nothing received AJ did you send it? thomaspower43@gmail.com or thomas.power@ecademy.com
- Thomas Power
tedroden @ gmail if you have extras (!)
- Ted Roden
mwittman [a][t] gmail[.]com por favor :)
- Micah
So what's it like?
- Chris Charabaruk
Aw shucks, nothing here yet
- Pete Gilbert
Chris, it's like Email on steriods x 100. Real-time. You see your wave's contact typing the message to you! It's CRAZY!
- AJ Batac
I don't know if I like other people being able to see what I'm saying in real-time. How are you adjusting with that?
- Brad Williamson
It's ok... I type real fast and I can delete words fast too. whooosh!
- AJ Batac
Relax folks! AJ got an invite because his name starts with an "A", people like "H"olden will have to wait till, say, next year?
- directeur
hey congrats AJ
- (jeff)isageek
if you have any invites feel free to send me one :)
- (jeff)isageek
jeffisageek at gmail dot com
- (jeff)isageek
NO! aw man. Can the nominees nominate others in turn? Can this get exponential? You are man of the day now, AJ...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Hi Kamilah, yeah I think this can get exponential. **hoping**
- AJ Batac
ZOMG I JUST TRIED TO GET INTO WAVE AND SOMETHING NEW IS HAPPENING O_O
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Congrats AJ!
- James Stratford
Guys, I have no more invites but when I get some I'll ask you all again if you want one. WAVE is so COOL! It has some getting used to but the playback solves it quickly.
- AJ Batac
omg!
- Rob Schonberger
! How did robsc get here?!
- EricaJoy
Nice "blip"n with you on the Goog AJ ... don.bonaddio@googlewave.com
- Don Bonaddio
You get to see what your contact is typing while he or she is typing? ICQ had that 15 years ago. What else does it do?
- Chris Charabaruk
NOOO. False alarm :(
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I wouldn't mind being queued, btw. My first name at coldacid.net, thx.
- Chris Charabaruk
I wonder if a nomination is another way of saying invite. Congrat's and it sounds great!
- Michael Fidler
from BuddyFeed
Very cool. I hope to someday get one :)
- joey
Hehe Erica, must be the name. It starts with "A" ;) Just like directeur said, Holden might also get it... Next year. :P
- AJ Batac
I wonder when will "Z"ee get his? :DD
- AJ Batac
Anybody have any goodness to spare? I'm ksheppardson you know where. They told me at one point I was in line for a sandbox invite that never materialized... Sigh....
- Ken Sheppardson
You'll be on my list Ken when I get more.
- AJ Batac
Thanks, AJ. I'm resisting the urge to just start badmouthing/bashing Wave as a failure out of frustration over not yet having been able to use it... ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, do it like this -> http://twitter.com/ajbatac... they'll notice. ;-)
- AJ Batac
That was 10 hours ago. ;)
- AJ Batac
"After filling in this form, you should receive a mail with your account details within a few days. Hope to see you on Google Wave soon,"... that was 59 days ago. :-/
- Ken Sheppardson
Lucky!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Is it everything you dreamed of? ;-)
- Grant Bierman
We'll see. I think it's too early for its time. 90% of my friends may not know what to do with it. Then again, I'm an early adopter. It might just be me imagining things again.
- AJ Batac
haha, so true of most folks isn't it?! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Congrats, AJ!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Thanks Mahendra. Lucky me, my name starts with "A" :D
- AJ Batac
Lucky!!!
- Lindsay
Gah, want!!
- Glenn Slaven
Wow, I forgot about email invites. (Guess I'm already in the Wave mindset.) I was just checking the home page, where it says "Your Google Account has not yet been activated for Google Wave.".
- Vezquex
still nothing received AJ?
- Thomas Power
It will come... there are people ahead... so... ;)
- AJ Batac
Can you invite me sir? Thanks :D
- Lysender
Ly, when I get more I'll have you on the list. ;-)
- AJ Batac
gattoo at gmail dot com
- ThinkEzy
sorry but i am tired of begging for invite. but do beggers have a chice?
- ThinkEzy
Yay!
- Tyson Key
Nice one, AJ! Nothing for me, gutted. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
OK thanks AJ will post here when it arrives
- Thomas Power
Vijay has just invited me and I got an invite straight-away. Thank you,. Vijay! :-D I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com
- Kol Tregaskes
I"m still hoping for an invite Curioustux at gmail.com
- CuriousTux
WTF. I thought sandbox accounts were guaranteed entry.
- Vezquex
If you want an invite post here: http://ff.im/91M9R and add you Wave addy here: http://ff.im/91NZC
- Kol Tregaskes
So do the people who receive invites have invites to give?
- Brad Williamson
Yes. Wait... Hold on. They're called nominations. If you've been nominated multiple times you get up pretty quickly. I think it's not like the Gmail invites that gets out instantly.
- AJ Batac
Judy, added you. ;)
- AJ Batac
Please, can you please invite me. Thanks :)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
from iPhone
INvite me plsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
- ThinkEzy
Well, if you have one left laying around... jason (dot) a (dot) castillo at the gmail ;)
- JA Castillo
JA, will add you to my list of nominations on the next round.
- AJ Batac
Wow, thank you, AJ! :)
- JA Castillo
Carmen, I do? :D j/k...
- AJ Batac
Just got my Google Wave invite. Thanks again, AJ!
- Nathan Chase
AJ thank you so much my invite just arrived, you have jumped up hugely in my FFriend Ratings. Thank you once again.
- Thomas Power
If you have a spare invite I'd love to join the Wave. Thanks.
- Allen Conquest
from iPhone
Please invite me to join :D
- Peerapong Pulpipatnan
Time Travel And ‘Energy Umbrellas’: Chicago Gets A Makeover For The 22nd Century » INFRASTRUCTURIST - http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009...
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@Renchin@ and Brad Williamson liked this
"This year, Chicago celebrates the centennial anniversary of the publication of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago. The Plan, now considered an ur-text of urban planning, was conceived with the greater metropolitan region in mind, and identified six cornerstones of development: highways, rails, parks, systematized streets, civic centers, and the lakefront. Over the several decades that followed, Burnham’s vision transformed not just Chicago’s visual landscape, but its social and psychological portrait as well. To honor the anniversary, the city asked local architects, planners and landscape architects to issue proposals for large- and small-scale developments for the new century. The results are startling—alternately haunting and comic, they offer both sweeping answers to systemic ills and imaginative exercises in, for example, an “umbrella of magnetic energy” that “powers public transportation.” (Below, see an overview of 9 striking proposals.)"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?: Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
imabonehead, Melissa, Lars Clausen and 8 other people liked this
"Love has inspired countless works of art, from immortal plays such as Romeo and Juliet, to architectural masterpieces such as the Taj Mahal, to classic pop songs, like Queen's “Love of My Life”. This raises the obvious question: why is love such a stimulating emotion? Why does the act of falling in love – or at least thinking about love – lead to such a spur of creative productivity? One possibility is that when we’re in love we actually think differently. This romantic hypothesis was recently tested by the psychologists Jens Förster, Kai Epstude, and Amina Özelsel at the University of Amsterdam. The researchers found that love really does alter our thoughts, and that this profound emotion affects us in a way that is different than simply thinking about sex."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"The clever experiments demonstrated that love makes us think differently in that it triggers global processing, which in turn promotes creative thinking and interferes with analytic thinking. Thinking about sex, however, has the opposite effect: it triggers local processing, which in turn promotes analytic thinking and interferes with creativity. Why does love make us think more...
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- RAPatton
it makes me stupid :S
- Elif Durmaz
"One of the most noteworthy implications of these experiments is that love and sex don’t simply influence the way we think about the people we love or desire. Instead, they influence the way we think about everything. The same researchers demonstrate this tendency in yet another experiment. When in love, it seems, we struggle to distinguish between the different qualities of the beloved...
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- RAPatton
in a word...YES! :D
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Yes, indeed!
- Fossil Huntress
3 Billion Reasons Why Video Conferencing Is Hot - http://gigaom.com/2009...
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Google Makes Hyperlocal Search An Even Hotter Topic - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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Books to Read Now - http://seedmagazine.com/content...
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October releases on the culture of consumption, the Golden Age of General Relativity, and how rumors spread on the internet.
- Jamreilly
google Wave. The last night of email? | davaidavai.com - http://davaidavai.com/2009...
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Hey Louis, have you got an account?
- Rob Schonberger
Rob, if I have an account, I am not aware of it. If I asked for one, I don't remember it. :)
- Louis Gray
Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel, Including His Own - Publishing futurism - io9 - http://io9.com/5371362...
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"Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, releases his new novel Makers in a few weeks. It's about amusement park ride hackers, and most of it is already online. We talked to Doctorow about Makers and the future of novel-writing."
- Steven Perez
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The end of objectivity – web 2.0 version {opinion of WaPo's social media policy..last paragraph is money} #journalism #media - http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009...
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Google Wave First Look - Google Wave - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5370738...
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"If you're not one of the 100,000 lucky users who gets an invitation to Google Wave today, don't fret. You can check out Google Wave right here. But first, ground rules. Click on all images in this post to see it full size. Uppercase "Wave" refers to the entire Google Wave product. Lowercase "wave" refers to an individual message or document. Think of a lowercase wave like an email or a Google Doc that you're collaborating on with other people. The screenshots in this post are from the Wave developer preview, not wave.google.com, invites to which are going out today. We'll update this post with anything significantly new in the non-preview version when we get our grubby little paws on the proper server invitation."
- Holger Eilhard
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Thanks Gina for this Screenshot-alooza :)
- Holger Eilhard
Thom Yorke Starts New Band With Flea From Red Hot Chili Peppers - http://pitchfork.com/news...
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Google Wave Invites: How To Get Them - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"The web is buzzing with excitement and anticipation. In less than 24 hours, Google Wave will launch to 100,000 early adopters. The real-time communication platform has been making headlines ever since it was announced back in May as a result of its potentially game-changing features. And while we’ve received our fair share of questions about Google’sGoogleGoogle newest product (most of which we answered in our Google Wave guide), one keeps popping up time and time again: how do I get an invite to Google WaveGoogle WaveGoogle Wave?"
- Amani
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Google Invites Everyone to Catch its Real - Webmonkey - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
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Wave solves a unique problem for web users as we deal with the proliferation of web-based collaboration tools and real-time communications services. On one side, you have cloud-based document sharing, photo sharing, wikis and other tools for collaboration. Then there are services built for real-time communication — chat is an obvious one, but other services like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed also aim to make real-time sharing a bigger part of our online experience.
- polou/indigo_bow
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Showtime’s Dexter and Californication Now Playing on YouTube - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"Sure, we’ve already seen the Hulufication of YouTube, but until today the most exciting content came from deals with CNN, Cartoon Network, and the WB. Compare that against Hulu’s powerhouse prime-time television show line-up, and you’ve got a bit of a flop (though it’s certainly not hurting their online video views). But YouTube just announced that the full-length Showtime season premieres of Dexter and Californication can now be watched by US viewers through October 12th. Given that CBS owns Showtime, this is a huge win for YouTube, as these shows are top-notch premium content, and the new episodes likely won’t find their way to Hulu."
- Sean McBride
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The beginning of something huge? I think so. What is to stop Google from controlling the entire television industry?
- Sean McBride
Speculation: should Google get into the movie and TV production business? Why not? Also: movie and TV production has a much brighter future than the newspaper and magazine industries -- they will survive the Internet quite nicely.
- Sean McBride
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