links for 2010-07-30

July 30, 2010

How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time Like chess or Super Mario Kart, RPS is a game of strategy, observation and intelligence. (tags: games strategy) Loc8 Code – The All Ireland Digital Address Code GPS Ireland says its Loc8 codes can define any location on the island of Ireland, accurate to within six metres. The codes [...]

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links for 2010-07-28

July 28, 2010

Home-made life insurance, the Apollo way – Boing Boing Of all the places I never expected to learn anything cool about the Apollo astronauts, number one would have to be the blog run by ukinsurance.net. (tags: linkbaiting ideas)

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links for 2010-07-22

July 22, 2010

Design with Intent Toolkit A set of illustrated cards showing how design can be used to change, prevent, or encourage certain behaviours. The way that spaces, objects and systems are designed heavily influence the way that we live our lives around them. They serve as both suggestions and critiques, showing how spaces and objects are [...]

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links for 2010-07-20

July 20, 2010

Hard to find Why it’s increasingly difficult to make discoveries – and other insights from the science of science. This type of research, studying the science of science, is in fact a field of science itself, and is known as scientometrics. (tags: science)

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links for 2010-07-13

July 13, 2010

Hacking The Price is Right Terry Kniess, a former weatherman with a knack for numbers and seeing patterns, went on The Price is Right and won more than $50,000 in prizes because of an exact bid on his Showcase. His secret? He watched hundreds of hours of the show and discovered its secrets and weaknesses. [...]

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links for 2010-07-05

July 5, 2010

Could Toxoplasma gondii help your country win the World Cup? In the knockout round of this year's tournament, eight out of eight winners so far have been the teams whose countries had higher rates of Toxo infection. (tags: economics biology sport gambling)

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links for 2010-07-02

July 2, 2010

Eye Chart Calendar | WHAT THE COOL A creative mock up created by graphic designer and drummer Andrew Ackroyd that promotes specsavers the opticians.

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links for 2010-07-01

July 1, 2010

Woot : Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot Woot.com CEO Matt Rutledge wrote what may be the funniest "our company has been purchased" mass-email ever in the history of such emails. (tags: business humour amazon email)

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links for 2010-06-18

June 18, 2010

Kill or cure? Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it. (tags: health medicine media science humour news)

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Vuvuzela News

June 18, 2010

Vuvuzelas: The Sun gives them away Ireland bans them Lifehacker tries to silence them. Olybop turns them into a video game.

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