Month: October 2005
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Not Gaming, But Exer-Gaming
Spot on article about using real landscapes when using exercise machines at gym. Wouldnt it be cool to race Lance Armstrong,whilst pedalling your gym bike, in The Tour de France game? Or go jogging in the Grand Canyon. Can’t be long before this sort of stuff happens. Maybe I should get building one! oPaul Kedrosky’s…
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Not Gaming, But Exer-Gaming
Spot on article about using real landscapes when using exercise machines at gym. Wouldnt it be cool to race Lance Armstrong,whilst pedalling your gym bike, in The Tour de France game? Or go jogging in the Grand Canyon. Can’t be long before this sort of stuff happens. Maybe I should get building one! oPaul Kedrosky’s…
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The first three seconds…
“A person watching a silent two-second video clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester” Powerful stuff must get Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Unreasonable Man: Food a recipe for school success
Interesting article on relationship between behaviour and nutrition, taken from a BBC report. with results from a double blind study on prisoners done in 2002 by Bernard Gesch. An idea occuring to me that is that maybe aggresive behaviours would have an evolutionary benefit in starving populations.
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The first three seconds…
“A person watching a silent two-second video clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester” Powerful stuff must get Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Unreasonable Man: Food a recipe for school success
Interesting article on relationship between behaviour and nutrition, taken from a BBC report. with results from a double blind study on prisoners done in 2002 by Bernard Gesch. An idea occuring to me that is that maybe aggresive behaviours would have an evolutionary benefit in starving populations.
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Digging for diamonds compared to comment spam
So for the poor bloggers who worry about comment spam etc. How about the diamond producers who have to crunch their way through 100 tonnes of stone to find 35 carats (7gram’s) of diamonds at The Blaauwbosch mine in South Africa. According to my calculations thats 0.01ppm or in blog speak 1 good comment for…
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Digging for diamonds compared to comment spam
So for the poor bloggers who worry about comment spam etc. How about the diamond producers who have to crunch their way through 100 tonnes of stone to find 35 carats (7gram’s) of diamonds at The Blaauwbosch mine in South Africa. According to my calculations thats 0.01ppm or in blog speak 1 good comment for…
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Goodbye Treo welcome Nokia E61
The Nokia E61 looks awesome and seems to have a MP3 player with miniSD card but no mention of a calender application etc. Does Symbian support the Palm calendar I wonder? + E60, E61 and E70
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New Health Search Engine
An article on Healthline a new search engine for medical advice. I just love this bit “and paid 1,100 doctors to create these maps and the underlying medical taxonomy. “That was part of the $24 million we burned through,” Will be interesting to see how fast they burn through the next $13m. Archived comments These…