Friday, December 15, 2006
Minox Leica M3
While it may look like a toy, this replica of the Leica classic camera in ultra miniature format shoots 4 megapixel images.
Up to 99 images can be recorded on the internal 32MB memory, and the camera includes a USB cable for transfer of the images onto a PC. The LCD display on the [...]
Friday, December 15, 2006
Why Women Aren’t Funny: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well, for one thing, they had damn well better be.
(tags: science feminism gender humour men women humor)
Mind Hacks: How economists measure happiness
(tags: psychology health wellbeing economics)
bio-medical.com | Peak Performance Products List
List of neurofeedback and brain [...]
Friday, December 15, 2006
Science of Psychopathy: “David Pescovitz: The cover story of Science News this week is about psychopaths, defined in the article as those pleasant individuals who ‘lack a conscience and are incapable of experiencing empathy, guilt, or loyalty.’ (On the cover, Ted Bundy.) From the article:
Psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley wrote The Mask of Sanity (1941, Mosby), [...]
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Special Report: The heavily biased anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council
The new U.N. organization charged with protecting human rights spends all its time attacking Israel.
(tags: UN bias Propaganda israel media anti-Semitism)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
How feminism destroyed real men | the Daily Mail
(tags: masculinity men politics psychology sociology feminism culture advice gender relationships sexism women)
Cruel and Unusual: 25 Years for Taking Own Pain Meds | The Huffington Post
(tags: health justice police politics trends law legal crime usa)
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Sadistic robbers jailed for life
A gang of racist and homophobic armed robbers have been jailed for life for kidnapping people and subjecting them to “sadistic and gratuitous violence”.
(tags: crime London police urban contemporary_culture racism race ethnicity)
Offering Video, Israel Answers Critics on War - New York Times
Proof [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
My ex-girlfriend called me up to tell me that Kensal Rise had just been hit by a tornado and that a friends flat had had the roof torn off.
I though she was kidding until I saw this: Six hurt as tornado hits street
My friends flat was heavily damaged but thankfully not hurt.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Matt’s Idea Blog: How to read a lot of books in a short time
Matt Cornell summarises various reading strategies to help us get through the mountains of book modern thinkers seem to have growing around them.
(tags: education how-to ideas lifehacks studying useful tips reading books)
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
From Belgrade 2.0 blog:
Belgrade Phantom (Serbian: Beogradski Fantom) is a nickname of the guy who night after night repeatedly managed to run away in a white Porsche from the cops who were driving their Zastava’s in the late seventies. His real name was Vlada Vasiljevic, a small time crook apparently very good in stealing cars [...]
SmartFlix, Web’s Biggest How-To DVD Rental Store
SmartFlix is a service that rents DVDs - just like your corner video store - but we rent the kind of videos that you can’t find on every street corner. Videos on running lathes, making glass beads, welding steel, oil painting, building guitars and thousan
(tags: how-to howto hobbies hacks [...]