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• London Names – Smith, Smith, Smith, Patel, Patel, Patel, Begum, Jones.
• How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks – Tunisian Internet censors were in the process of stealing an entire country's worth of passwords. Facebook reacted.

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• Economist: Wrong Numbers – Global league tables are interesting, but not always reliable. Few people pay attention to margins of error. Combined indices in particular can be very sensitive to small changes in underlying data.
• Earn Trust By Never Doing Anything For Your Children – As parents, we often find that it’s easier to do a task ourselves than to spend time teaching the children how to do it. After all, they’ll learn when they’re older, right?
• Paracetamol hade inte godkänts i dag – Paracetamol is dangerous even when not overdosed (which can lead to a nasty death) – its hormone-disrupting effect is three times stronger than that of phtalates which everyone is worrying about. (In Swedish.)

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• NY Times: Without the Blood Sausage, it Just Wouldn't Be Christmas – Estonian-Americans gather to make traditional blood sausage for Christmas Eve at the New York Estonian House.
• The 'cult of less' | The Guardian – Is the decluttering trend simply an exercise in obsession?
• NY Times: A Quiet Revolt Against the Rules on SIDS – For more than a decade, doctors have advocated putting babies to bed on their backs as a precaution against SIDS.
  Increasingly, new parents are finding that the benefits of having babies sleep soundly – more likely when they sleep on their stomachs – outweigh the comparatively tiny risk of SIDS.
• Translate Signs and Menus Instantly Using Word Lens' Crazy-Amazing iPhone App – Word Lens uses augmented reality to translate things in front of you. Incredibly cool!

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• 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted – Gaming has changed. It used to be that once they sold us a $50 game, they didn't particularly care how long we played. The big thing was making sure we liked it enough to buy the next one. But the industry is moving toward subscription-based games like MMO's that need the subject to keep playing–and paying–until the sun goes supernova.
• Kallare än på 100 år – DN.se – Record temperatures expected in Stockholm later this week – colder than in a hundred years.
• Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: "To destroy this invisible government" –
• Psychopathy: Socially challenging | The Economist – Psychopathy seems to be caused by specific mental deficiencies.
• Obesity, malnutrition and gestation | The Economist – What a woman eats during pregnancy affects the child's metabolism.
• Animal obesity: The fat cat cometh | The Economist – It is not just humans that are getting fatter – animals living with or around humans are, too.

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• NY Times: Cats Lap With Tip of the Tongue – It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.
• Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Business | Vanity Fair – The unbelievable state of Greek state finances, where no one pays tax, no one knows how many people the state employs, or how much the state spends, and everybody cheats.
• A Vegan No More | Voracious – A "hardcore, self-righteous and oh so judgmental vegangelical" is forced to stop being one after the diet makes her profoundly ill. Long and interesting, with many comments.
• Sub-Pixel Message Generator – Using sub-pixel rendering to create a ridiculously small font (1 pixel wide and 5 pixels high), only visible on LCD monitors running at their highest resolution
• The Insanity Virus | DISCOVER Magazine – Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Some psychiatrists now say that the cause is a virus that lives in every person's DNA, and is triggered by an infection in early childhood.

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• Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper – An everyday party balloon filled with ground coffee is attached to a robotic arm. The coffee-filled balloon presses down and deforms around the desired object, and then a vacuum sucks the air out of the balloon, solidifying its grip. It works with almost any object, including a raw egg or a coin – both notoriously difficult for traditional robotic grippers.
• How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends – Kids ringing a stranger's doorbell in 1948 or 1952 received all sorts of tribute: Coins, nuts, fruit, cookies, cakes, and toys were as likely as candy. It wasn't until the 1970s that candy came to be seen as the only legitimate treat.
• Hacker News: How does having a baby change your life? – A lot of hackers comment on how parenthood changed their life.
• Soviet Image Editing Tool from 1987 –

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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?
• XKCD: Tech Support – A dream shared by every reasonably tech-savvy person who's ever called tech support.
• The genius of Dick Francis was to give readers a racing certainty – "I once wrote a review of a Dick Francis thriller without reading it. I wasn’t going to waste a new Dick Francis on a bloody review when I had a transatlantic flight coming up, was I? So I wrote a piece saying that I knew the book was going to be good. I trusted it, and that’s why I was saving it for later."
• Difference Between “Real” Writers And “Wannabe” Writers – The difference between doing something because your ego / self-image wants it, and doing it because it is your natural inclination, because you cannot NOT do it.

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• Irritating brand names: Silly name, silly company, silly product? – There seems to be no end in sight to the tiresome habit of companies giving themselves and their products novelty names that contain unnecessary punctuation, bogus foreign accents and diacriticals, random use of capitals or lower-case letters, and so on.
• Schneier on Security: Stuxnet – Bruce Schneier's comments on the Stuxnet worm.
• Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal – Not only does E. chlorotica turn sunlight into energy — something only plants can do — it also appears to have swiped this ability from the algae it consumes.
• Social Software: The Evaporative Cooling Effect – "The people who most want to meet people are the people who the least number of people want to meet. The people who are the most desperate to date are those who the least number of people want to date. The people who are the most eager to talk are the ones who the least number of people are interested in hearing. It is the ignorance of this fundamental principle that I see at the heart of so many failed social software designs."
• Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider – Several physicists weigh in on what would happen if you were to place your hand in the proton stream of the Large Hadron Collider. The responses range from "nothing" to "you'd die for sure, instantly".

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• Something, Something, Something, Detroit – Lazy journalists love pictures of abandoned stuff – After suffering through the nation’s worst and most concentrated examples of racial violence, industrial collapse, serial arson, crack war, and municipal bankruptcy following years of municipal kleptocracy, Detroit is being descended on by a plague of reporters.
• Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn? – "Back when I was in grad school there was a department lunch with corn on the cob. Partway through the meal one of the analysts looked around the room and remarked, "That's odd, all of the analysts are eating corn one way and the algebraists are eating corn another!""
• In Search of Jackboots: Estonia’s chronic negative image in the western press – The fairness of Estonian language and citizenship laws aside, it seems Estonia has a case to be made that the language law’s enforcement is humane. But when it comes to defending its view in the western press, Estonia seems capable only of creating a case study in public relations disasters.
• Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either – Why you shouldn't use black in your designs.

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• Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation – The label may say 36", but that doesn't mean the trousers actually measure 36". Some brands are up to 5" off the promised measurements.
• Guardian: Why have audiences stopped dancing? – What happened to all the dancing at indie concerts? The professor of anthropology reckons it's down to people protecting their iPhones.
• NY Times: Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans – In a survey about Christianity and other world religions, people answered on average half the questions incorrectly, and many flubbed even questions about their own faith. Those who scored the highest were atheists and agnostics, as well as Jews and Mormons.