Barak B

OMG! - Lindsey

Ah, works now - OMGOsh!!! - Kol Tregaskes

Where would bees normally makes their hive in the natural environment? They have obviously had to compensate. - Mandy

One of the most important but under-covered areas: brain fitness; nice article covering various sites - Aydin Senkut via Bookmarklet

Metnin bu bolumu hafif urkutucu!! -- Her daim 20'lerimizde yasamak umidiyle:) By the time you’re 30 you’re probably past your intellectual peak. This is a problem, as we’re living longer and longer, and the danger is that we’ll just get stupider and stupider. - Fatmanur Erdogan

true 1-arm pull-ups - Mitchell Tsai

err 1 finger 1 arm pull ups. I can do that.....in my dreams - Toby Graham

Charlie Tamayo doing a an arabian triple front (on a rod floor, into a pit) at an exhibition at UCLA summer camp. - Mitchell Tsai

amazing!! - Barak B

Charlie Tamayo defected from Cuba in 2003 and is one of America's best gymnasts. Unfortunately because of government slow ass procedures he might not get the chance to make the 2008 team. It would be a damn shame. - Mitchell Tsai

http://gymnasticscoaching.com/... - Mitchell Tsai

"According to the system, the United States had launched five missiles, which were rapidly heading into Soviet territory. The U.S.S.R. was under attack. All Petrov had to do was push the flashing red button on the desk in front of him, and the Soviets would retaliate with their own battery of missiles, launching a full-scale nuclear war. "For 15 seconds, we were in a state of shock," he told The Washington Post. "We needed to understand, what's next?" Though the bunker atmosphere was chaotic, Petrov, who had trained as a scientist, took the time to analyze the data carefully before making his decision." - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"# Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. # When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. # Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions. # Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"To mark the DVD release of the final season, Museum of the Moving Image presented a panel, Making "The Wire", with David Simon, the series creator and co-producer; novelist and screenwriter Richard Price, who wrote several episodes; and four of the show's stars: Seth Gilliam (who played Ellis Carver), Clark Johnson (city editor Gus Haynes), Clarke Peters (Lester Freemon), and Wendell Pierce ("Bunk")." - Mitch Wagner via Bookmarklet

"In 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station, where three crews successively lived and worked for more than 171 days. Knowing a call to the fire department would accomplish precious little from outer space, NASA and Honeywell Inc. developed an alarm system that would alert the station’s crew to smoke or fire. Today, of course, such alarms are found in 90 percent of U.S. homes." - Barak B via Bookmarklet

haha! - Mona N.

Top 100 Wonders of the World and info about each one - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"If you start thinking about our faulty perceptions, the first thing you realize is that markets are not perfectly efficient, people are not always good guardians of their own self-interest and there might be limited circumstances when government could usefully slant the decision-making architecture (see “Nudge” by Thaler and Cass Sunstein for proposals). But the second thing you realize is that government officials are probably going to be even worse perceivers of reality than private business types. Their information feedback mechanism is more limited, and, being deeply politicized, they’re even more likely to filter inconvenient facts." - Barak B via Bookmarklet

That motorbike is jumping over a plane! - Barak B via Bookmarklet

Nice graphical illustration of the US economy. - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"Wolfing down meals may be enough to nearly double a person's risk of being overweight, Japanese research suggests. Osaka University scientists looked at the eating habits of 3,000 people and reported their findings in the British Medical Journal. Problems in signalling systems which tell the body when to stop eating may be partly responsible, said a UK nutrition expert. He said deliberately slowing down at mealtimes might impact on weight." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

i have to conciously remind myself to slow down. i'm definitely a scarfer, particularly when eating alone. i've noticed that when i slow down, i eat less. that's partly why i like tapas bars. while i'm waiting for stuff to come out, i'm eating slowly. i'm savoring. in the end, i don't eat nearly as much and i feel just as satisfied. - tiffany

I'm old fashioned in that I always like to eat the main meal of the day together at the table. Time to mull over the day's events too. That tends to make one eat a litlte slower. - Ian May

7-unexpected-moments-of-guitar-awesomeness - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"The exhibit, of hundreds of print ads and television commercials, is titled “Not a Cough in a Carload: Images Used by Tobacco Companies to Hide the Hazards of Smoking.” The first part of the title is borrowed from a slogan for Old Gold cigarettes, a brand that subsequently boasted in its ads of being “made by tobacco men, not medicine men.”" - Abby Martin via Bookmarklet

Sleep well. :) - Abby Martin

Sad times - Bibi

online flash games - Barak B via Bookmarklet

"Storytelling is one of the few human traits that are truly universal across culture and through all of known history. Anthropologists find evidence of folktales everywhere in ancient cultures, written in Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Egyptian and Sumerian. People in societies of all types weave narratives, from oral storytellers in hunter-gatherer tribes to the millions of writers churning out books, television shows and movies. And when a characteristic behavior shows up in so many different societies, researchers pay attention: its roots may tell us something about our evolutionary past. To study storytelling, scientists must first define what constitutes a story, and that can prove tricky. Because there are so many diverse forms, scholars often define story structure, known as narrative, by explaining what it is not." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

This is v. interesting as applied to current political goings on (e.g., transportation, identification.) I feel like sending this to the Obama campaign. - Ayşe E.

bloody amazing video... wonder how they did it? - Gregory Lent

This is freaking awesome - Kyle Lacy

That was cool! But also very freaky. - Lindsay Donaghe

Ayse: This is it LOL - Mona N.

that song is etched into the brain tissue somewhere in my medial temporal lobe - Nathan Chase

...still waiting on that Seesmic, Mona... - Pete Delucchi

and the celebrities in the ads use Macs... - Barak B via Bookmarklet

Brilliant! - Barak B via Bookmarklet

Thanks for the info, and I added the blog to my reader :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl

no prob. :) - edythe

15 Most Artistically Awesome Ads - Barak B via Bookmarklet

flippin' awesome. - Zee. Just Zee.

wow - saeedeh

that's great! - Cee Bee

I feel like a nerd for understanding this one. - Andrew Trinh

Barak B, they're real numbers. - Andrew Trinh

I wondered why '8' could see the imaginary number when the other numbers couldn't, and then it came to me. Eight is just craaaaaazy! - Slippy Lane

oh my word... - Zee. Just Zee. via Bookmarklet

I have no problems with eating meat, I just draw the line at meat from animals that reach a certain level of consciousness. Everything else is fair game - and to any veggies that try to "make me see the error of my ways", may I point out the ultimate irony of life is that for it to continue, another must die. And that we are discovering plants to be FAR more alive than we ever gave them credit, just do some research into plant neurobiology and social studies and you'll realise they're on a par with animals. - alphaxion

There's one tribe in Alaska or Canada that has a big ceremony, then they row out in their boat to find a whale, and when they're ready for the kill, they don't pull out a spear but grab a .50 caliber rifle and shoot it. Guess it isn't all that authentic... - Andrew Leyden

Fantastic... - Barak B via Bookmarklet