Links For A Sunday Morning 17 October 2004 00:26
Flight simulators 'treat vertigo'
Flight simulators used to train pilots and astronauts can provide relief from chronic dizziness.
I need one those treatments.
Women 'better at holding drink'
Some men may not want to hear this - but scientists have found women are better at holding their drink.
Blogtools
Comment system and guestbook. Very useful for Diaryland and Blogger. I did try it out. Simple installation. Can completely customise the look of the comment box, including layout. I dont know if they delete older messages like Haloscan, but they dont provide a RSS feed for the comments :-S
Weblogimages.com
Image hosting service for your online journal.
I havnt tried it out yet. I am a lil hesitant recommending these service providers these days, after mBlog and Scribble Journal went kaput.
All About RSS
For the last and final time. So stop asking :-|
Dishoom
The latest one from Badmash...starring Kerry, Bush and Amitabh :)
Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought
Brain chip reads mind by tapping straight into neurons.
Revenge of the pop-ups
It's been barely two months since Microsoft made a pop-up blocker available for its Internet Explorer browser--but Web advertisers have already found a way to slip their loathed marketing pitches past it.
Spider-Man Reviews Crayons!
:)
Sleepwalkers who have 'sex sleep'

Imagine finding unexplained condoms around your house and then waking up one night to find your partner having sex with a stranger. It might sound like an affair, but what if your 'cheating' partner was fast asleep during the act? The phenomenon, called sleep sex, was described to doctors at a meeting in Australia.

Hopes of malaria vaccine by 2010
An effective vaccine against malaria has been developed and could be licensed by 2010, scientists say. Many other candidate vaccines are in development, but experts say trial results of this one are the most promising yet.
BetaVote.com
What if the whole world could vote in the U.S. presidential election?
An overwhelming 86% of Indians (including me) have voted for Kerry. Not surprising.
RSS Feeds Hunger for More Ads
There's no such thing as a free lunch. And soon, there may be no such thing as an ad-free RSS feed, either, as publishers add advertisements to their feeds in hopes of making money through the popular content-aggregating technology.
Google Desktop Search

Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly. View web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Search as easily as you do on Google

I just gotten it installed and its still indexing. On first impressions it certainly is faster than the crummy default windows search.
Glad to be asexual?
There is a growing community out there with absolutely no desire to have sex and they are standing up to be counted.
Scientists 'find key to hearing'
A protein deep in the ear is a key factor for normal hearing and could be used to help develop treatments for deafness.
How to study
A must read for anybody who is studying. Some excellent advise.
FDA Says Docs Can Chip Patients
The US Food and Drug Administration gives doctors the go-ahead to implant radio frequency microchips in patients. When scanned, the chips will release patients' medical information to doctors, speeding care.
Can't Hide Your Lying...Face?
In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives.
Stranded Bloggers
Mena about the recent mBlog shutdown.
More on the mBlog stutdown.
Segway across America at 10 MPH

We recently quit our corporate jobs and decided to travel across America to capture a true sense of what this country is about. To force us to slow down, take a different road, and capture people's attention, Josh Caldwell is riding a Segway HT from Seattle to Boston. After we're all done, the stories we discover and the experiences we have will culminate in a feature-length documentary.

Market Dominance
A decade on the Web with Netscape
A CNET feature on the Netscape browser.
Fussy Hair

Despite the fact that my husband claimed my hair was sexy -- 'You know, in a European way' -- it had been a year since I decided it might be fun to painstakingly maintain the look of a horribly botched haircut, and I needed a change. Now, to make a boring process slighty more narcissistic, I invite the entire Internet to share the stultifying process as I grow it all out.

( via Dooce )
Man's face rebuilt with single skin graft?
For the first time, plastic surgeons have reconstructed a burn victim's entire face using a single sheet of thick skin harvested from his back.
Click Fraud Threatens Web
Someone could make the argument that watchdogs have better things to do. But click fraud -- endlessly clicking on ads to generate cash or hurt a competitor -- is a serious threat to the web business, and no one's doing much about it.
WanderPod Brings Wi-Fi Anywhere
A Wi-Fi hot-spot builder develops a decked-out trailer capable of delivering broadband access even in the middle of nowhere. The WanderPod gets its first test run at the launch of SpaceShipOne in the Mojave Desert.
Waistline linked to health risks
A tape measure could be a better guide to future health risks than bathroom scales, health experts have said.
How homosexuality is 'inherited'
Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation.
World's pollution hotspots revealed from space
The global map of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide pinpoints cities, burning vegetation and even shipping lanes !
YouForgotPoland
Haha...Bush never forgets to mention Poland as part of his "coalition".
Bush's mystery bulge
Now even the mainstream publications are talking about it.
Nobel peace laureate claims HIV deliberately created.
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
This has been said for a long time now. Her saying it is going to fuel it further.
French cinemas act to jam mobiles
Mobile phone signals will be jammed in French cinemas and theatres to prevent the devices disturbing the audience.
Wonderful.
Clientcopia
Stupid Client Quotes. Funny...not when it happens to you :-| My fave one
JustBlogIt
JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog.
Supports Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Radio Userland, TextPattern, TypePad and WordPress. Can also be used to post from feed readers and be configured to use for other blog types.
As usual doesnt work for Diaryland :-|
State of the Blogosphere
From Sifry/Technorati
State of the Blogosphere
Part 2
State of the blogosphere
Part 3 in the series.
U.S. Spies on Chat Rooms
Could terrorists be plotting their next move online, obscured by the 'noise' of chat-room chatter? The U.S. government thinks that may be the case and is funding a yearlong study on chat-room surveillance.
Jacket Grows From Living Tissue
Put off by the idea of wearing jackets made from dead animal skins, a team of Australian researchers attempts to grow a stitchless coat from live cells.
Oral History on the Go
A project to record thousands of interviews with people across the United States is expanding.
US seizes independent media sites
The FBI has shut down some 20 sites which were part of an alternative media network known as Indymedia.
People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
A group of British scientists believes people should be viewed as 'superorganisms,' made of conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells. It's a sensible view, given that human bodies contain more than 500 bacterial species.
A MacGyver for the Third World
An MIT inventor bent on public service creates practical solutions to life-threatening problems around the world. Her approach: be a master of the obvious. Second in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners.
India Emerges as Innovation Hub
Indian labs churn out technologies to help users in developing countries keep up with the information age even if they can't afford a computer, don't live near a phone or speak a language that can't be typed on a standard keyboard.
Presidency 101 - The Global Test
:)
'New' giant ape found in DR Congo
Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes with characteristics of both gorillas and chimpanzees, in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Curtain Call for Junk-Fax Blaster
The nation's most notorious junk-fax sender agrees to the terms of a court order forcing it to stop its ink-depleting ways. But that hasn't convinced a longtime Fax.com foe to drop a 2.2 trillion dollar lawsuit against the firm.
New software lets toddlers e-mail and surf
Children as young as two are the target audience of a new software that will enable toddlers to both surf and send e-mails safely without help from their parents.
Next?
Pyra Labs/Blogger co-founder Evan Williams resigns from Google.
Seedling found growing in man's navel
I havnt had a decent WTF link for a coupla weeks now. But this makes up for it :p
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