Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com

• Times: Iceland prepares for possible second volcanic eruption – After a small volcano eruption this weekend in Iceland, the danger is that it will trigger the much larger Katla. The outlook isn't good: Eyjafjallajokull has blown 3 times over the last 1000 years, and Katla always followed. A big eruption can have global consequences.
• Economist: Metabolic syndrome: A game of consequences? – Some scientists are now saying that being fat, long thought to be a bad thing, is actually a protective mechanism against other, more damaging effects of overeating.
• Why are carrots orange? It is political. – Carrots used to be white, red, orange and purple. Now they're almost all orange. Why? Because of 17th century politics.
• Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective – Starts as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finishes up moving into graph theory.
• Code Bubbles Project: Rethinking the User Interface of IDEs – "The file-based nature of contemporary IDEs makes it prohibitively difficult to create and maintain a simultaneous view of such fragments. We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets."