links for 2010-06-04

June 4, 2010

Self-Experimentation | Seth Roberts Water reduces weight because its taste is associated with zero calories. So it lowers the running average the brain uses to judge the abundance of calories. Legumes reduce weight because they produce a relatively slow calorie signal. (tags: health dieting experimentation self-tracking)

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links for 2010-06-01

June 1, 2010

Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight Self-experimentation lasting months or years seems to be a good way to generate plausible new ideas. (tags: quantified-self science thinking philosophy psychology exercise experimentation ideas) Why I Do All This Walking, or How Systems Become Fragile – Taleb Nobody in [...]

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links for 2010-05-28

May 28, 2010

The Swinger « Music Machinery The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half (tags: music python audio programming swing)

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links for 2010-05-27

May 27, 2010

Devious New Phishing Tactic Targets Tabs — Krebs on Security A user has multiple tabs open, and surfs to a site that uses special javacript code to silently alter the contents of a tabbed page along with the information displayed on the tab itself, so that when the user switches back to that tab it [...]

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links for 2010-05-18

May 18, 2010

DoctorYourself.com – Health, Naturally! If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care. (tags: diy health medicine food books)

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Two clever marketing campaigns that target cheap Adwords

May 18, 2010

These 2 clever marketing campaigns used a similar tactic of buying Google Adwords for terms that were cheap because no-one else was bidding on them. In the first campaign, Converse used Google trends to identify phrases like “How to talk to girls” and “The first day of summer”. Search volumes for the phrases were high, [...]

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links for 2010-05-17

May 17, 2010

Email apnea: holding your breath while you answer mail People hold their breath and breathe shallowly when answering email, a phenomenon dubbed "email apnea." (tags: breathing email health)

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links for 2010-05-15

May 15, 2010

Human Space Flight (HSF) – Realtime Data This "applet" uses up-to-the-minute data from Mission Control to project the path the spacecraft will make across the sky. (tags: astronomy science space application education data)

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links for 2010-05-10

May 10, 2010

Ms Ward in Wedgwood Wallpaper Handmade wallpaper featuring a Victorian woman walking giant bugs on a leash. Mary Ward (1827-1869) was encouraged to nurture her love of nature from a young age. Mary Ward was born into to a renowned scientific family in Co. Offaly, Ireland. True to her love of scale, this pattern blends [...]

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links for 2010-05-06

May 6, 2010

Persistence Pays Parasites Phishing is about attacking the seemingly impregnable defenses of the technically sophisticated until you find a single, incredibly unlikely, short-lived crack in the wall. (tags: security twitter phishing)

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