May 2006 Archives
Traveling Forever: Ditch the Laptop for A USB Key -- Now, they can carry an entire computer's worth of software everywhere they go, and keep a personal mini computer stored on a usb key, accessible through almost any computer in the world. Thanks to the hard work of sites such as www.portableapps.com and Open Source, the software is all free and easily accessable. Word processors, web browsers, even entire office suites are available for free download. Also good comments on LifeHacker.
CollgeV2: A beginner’s guide to eBay: Confessions from an eBay store worker - Part 1. Other parts of the series ae What doesn't sell/what to buy, Your tips, etc. Also Method: 13 Steps to Profitable Auctions.
NY Times: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel -- The notion that lactic acid was bad took hold more than a century ago, but more recent research suggests that it is actually a fuel, not a caustic waste product.
NY Times: Honda to Drop a Hybrid and Eventually Offer a New One -- Honda is dropping the Insight, a quirky two-seater that gets an estimated 66 miles a gallon, and is preparing to introduce a new hybrid in 2009.
NY Times: The Nitpicking Nation -- Craigslist provides a view of what Americans look for. The operative word is "no": for starters, no pets and no smoking.
NY Times: States Struggle to Computerize School Records -- Efforts to collect attendance logs, test scores and other data have cost more or taken longer than expected.
Forbes: 15 Ways to Live Longer
CNN: 'Green roofs' growing more popular -- Green roofs, first championed in Germany, have grown in popularity around the world, and experts predict more growth as the practice sprouts as far away as China. In North America, green roof space grew 70 percent last year.
NY Times: Living: Golfing and Gardening (and Working) in Retirement -- Takeaway: A 2002 AARP study showed that 71 percent of workers age 45 to 56 plan to work into their retirement years. Thirty-five percent of that group planned to work part time for interest or enjoyment, 11 percent expected to start their own businesses, 7 percent planned to retire from their current jobs, but work full time at something else, and 18 percent planned to work part time mainly for the income.
NY Times: Times Are Tough for News Media, but Journalism Schools Are Still Booming -- Demand for seats in the nation's journalism schools and programs remains robust, and these schools and programs are expanding.
NY Times: At an Industry Media Lab, Close Views of Multitasking -- In a sleek Los Angeles lab, advertisers and media companies are researching Americans' propensity for "concurrent media usage."
NY Times: Drilling Down: The Case of the Disappearing Cookies -- Advertisers use "cookies" to track Web users, but concerns about privacy are causing more and more users to delete these tiny files.
Reuters: Da Vinci Code's last secret: how did it succeed? -- (H)is was a formula that mixed clumsy, forgettable sentences with breakneck pacing, lectures on art, history and religion, sinister conspiracies, evil villains, puzzles and cliffhanger chapter endings to produce literary gold.
A beginner’s guide to eBay: Confessions from an eBay store worker - Part 1 -- Lifehacker.com
Google Trends. Also NY Times: Google Shows New Services in Battle of Search Engines also about Google Co-op.
Box of Chocolates: Ten Smart Moves to Improve your Business -- Lifehacker.com
NY Times: Good Times at a Backpackers' Paradise -- Damascus, Va.
NY Times: Whipping Up a Cookbook Empire With Meatloaf Instead of Sizzle -- Phyllis Pellman Good's cookbooks eschew photographs and chic recipes for simple and practical dishes.
NY Times: Freakonomics: A Star Is Made -- Where does talent really come from? or practice, practice, practice ...
Business 2.0: 5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job -- Lifehacker.com
Paul Graham: Great ideas for startups and The Hardest Lessons For Startups To Learn -- Lifehacker.com
Lifehacker.com -- Getting To Done: Don't be an employee
Raible Designs: Tips for Productivity and Happiness at Work -- Lifehacker.com
Christian Science Monitor: How $3 gas could push US drivers to shift -- But consumption habits would only change if prices stay high, economists say.
WashingtonPost.com: Sites Let Amateurs Be Published Authors Without the Book Deal
NY Times: Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming -- A study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer.
NY Times: Gas Guzzlers Find Price of Forgiveness -- Groups on the Internet offer pain-free ways to assuage their guilt while promoting clean energy.
Federal Trade Commission: "Gas-Saving" Products: Fact or Fuelishness?.
Macworld: New life for old photos -- How to rescue, restore, and reuse aging prints and negatives
NY Times: For Science's Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap
-- Recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have called into question as never before the merits of their peer-review system.
Washingon Post: New Digital Books Offer Better Readability -- Step onto a Metro train any given morning and it's easy to find people feeding their appetites for information. Commuters regularly have their faces buried in newspapers, magazines, novels -- and sometimes even Web-enabled cellphones -- during the ride to and from work.
Wired News: Teeny Reactor Pumps Out Biodiesel