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Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors - Telegraph
Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.
Responsible Bank offers advice on mortgage crisis (PDF)
YouTube - 8/28/2006-Peter Schiff Predicts The US Economic Collapse With Unbelievable Accuracy

Neurophilosophy : Musical training enhances integration of the senses
Learning to play a musical instrument is known to involve both structural and functional changes in the brain. Studies published in recent years have established, for example, that professional keyboard players have increased gray matter volume in motor, auditory and visual parts of the brain, and that violinists have a larger somatosensory cortical representation of the left hand than do non-musicians.
Last Ant Standing -- Choi 2008 (923): 1 -- ScienceNOW
Every night, the Brazilian ant Forelius pusillus takes self-sacrifice to a whole new level. At sunset, the colony protects its nest by sealing off the entrances with sand, and a few ants remain outside to complete the job. Unable to reenter, they die by the next morning--making them the first known example of a suicidal defense that is preemptive rather than a response to immediate danger.
Color + Design Blog / The Colorful Art of Sand Mandalas by COLOURlovers
BioShock Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
Interview with Dorothy Rowe | Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
Excellent interview/talk with Dorothy Rowe on her new book What Should I Believe?
Religion: why do people believe in God? - Telegraph
For all of us, life is full of uncertainties and difficulties, and it ends in death. Every religion claims to overcome death, to provide certainty, and reward us for being good. So great is our fear of life and death that most of us allow hope to override our intellect.

'''Superb piece by psychologist Dorothy Rowe on how religious beliefs can satisfy a deep psychological need for purpose and meaning in life, and how non-religious beliefs can satisfy that need as well. Nicely balance. I'll have to find her book What Should I Believe?.
New study proves that pain is not a symptom of arthritis, pain causes arthritis
ABC News: Robert Redford Remembers His Co-Star, Friend
Depression risk high for heart patients
Patients with heart disease should be screened and treated for depression because it can adversely affect their health outlook and quality of life, according to a new report by the American Heart Association.
IBM - alphaWorks Flash
Dirty little secret about of Gilligan's Island
Very clever analysis.
Instant heart attack?
The reason this product is so high in cholesterol is because the brain cells contain a lot of cholesterol....You might say the brain actually NEEDS cholesterol to function properly...Which makes you wonder if cholesterol lowering meds (statins) are good for the brain...Given that some some complain that statins cause memory loss, perhaps the question has been answered.
God Prefers Atheists - Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles
How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1 » Themetation
Movie Reviews, Music Reviews, TV Show Reviews, Game Reviews, Book Reviews - Metacritic.com
Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)
Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Katie Couric SNL Skit (VIDEO)
Strategery Capital
The $700 billion hedge fund...indeed.
Pedal power: The amazing bicycle powered by the sun | Mail Online
The bright yellow 'Cycle Sol' operates like a normal pedal cycle but has a canopy lined with solar cells overhead. When the user pedals in the sunshine the rays charge up a battery which powers a small electric motor hidden in the back wheel.

This then propels the bike forward at speeds of up to 15mph. It also lowers the resistance in peddling to make it easier for the rider to cycle up hills.
Horny goat weed could be better than Viagra - sex - 26 September 2008 - New Scientist
The soft green heart-shaped leaf of the horny goat weed could hold the key to a new drug for treating erectile dysfunction. Researchers say the Viagra alternative could be as effective as the famous blue pill, but have fewer side-effects.
Michael's: "It's Store Policy Not To Accept Change"
Hayden wanted to buy a $4 wood plaque for his mother as part of a last-minute birthday gift, but Michael's craft store wouldn't accept 16 quarters as payment. "It's store policy not to accept change," a cashier explained, forcing an embarrassed Hayden to borrow a few bucks from his younger sister.
Energy Drinks? You'd Better Avoid Them, Scientists Say
According to the findings of a new study published in the Sept. 20 issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the super-caffeinated energy drinks can trigger caffeine intoxication. "The caffeine content of energy drinks varies over a 10-fold range, with some containing the equivalent of 14 cans of Coca-Cola, yet the caffeine amounts are unlabeled and few include warnings about potential health risks of caffeine intoxication," said one of the authors of the study, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Preserving health insurance when you're out of work - CNN.com
I think the economy would get a boost if families didn't need jobs at big corporations in order to get health insurance for their families. Without that obligation, people could focus on being entrepreneurial, start small businesses that, one day, might become large businesses. Right now, that freedom is denied because striking out on your own can mean not being able to obtain health insurance for your family (due to pre-existing conditions or prohibitive costs). What a waste of potential.
YouTube - Stronger Yo-Yo
Yo! This kid rocks!

Low Vitamin D Levels Raise Breast Cancer Death Risk by 75 Percent
Women who are deficient in vitamin D at the time they are diagnosed with breast cancer are nearly 75 percent more likely to die from the disease than women with sufficient vitamin D levels, and their cancer is twice as likely to spread to other parts of the body.
Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback ('Well done!'), whereas negative feedback ('Got it wrong this time') scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring.  Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes.  Adults do the same, but more efficiently.
10 Innovative Camping Products | Camping Tourist
Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low Carb Blog -- Excessive Fructose Intake, Not Starch Leads To Metabolic Syndrome, Author Contends
A Picture Worth 1000-Words « Weight of the Evidence
Dr.House Caricatures | bored-bored.com
Bailout? Just do nothing - Los Angeles Times
Even though I understand so little about economics that much of my long-term investments are tied up in Costco products, I feel pretty sure that letting Congress give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson $700 billion to buy super-crappy mortgages is not the right call.
LewRockwell.com Blog: The Debate in a Nutshell
Combat Arms - Online FPS Action
NASA's dirty secret: Moon dust | Science Codex
The five best desktop Linuxes you haven't tried | Computerworld Blogs
Pick a lock. For fun. (It's legal too) -- chicagotribune.com
50 tools to speed up your PC - Network World
The 10 Remaining Must See Movies of 2008 | Film School Rejects | Essential Viewing
Carl Bernstein: The Palin Pick -- The Devolution of McCain
Ultimately it is the choice of Palin, made in the moment when action speaks loudest, that may undermine a quarter-century of assertions by John McCain about the preeminence of duty, honor and country in his political schema.
Financial bailout? We Don't Need the Crooks to Save Us @ American Dream Project
Like his points. Imagine what we could do with $700 billion that would be constructive AND that would boost the economy. Think infrastructure. If the U.S. government is going to be a bank, operate one and loan money only to those worth the risk; namely, those banks that didn't gamble their money away.
Time Lapse Of Boeing 720b Demolition Video
How Maddow Is Rewriting The Rules Of Cable News
Warren Buffett Reveals Bailout7s Dirty Little Secret
The critical part of the bailout is the price the government pays for the trash assets it buys from banks. In short, if the government pays too much, the taxpayers will get hosed.
What Happens When We Die? - Yahoo! News
How Sweden Solved Its Bank Crisis - NYTimes.com
Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government take over the bad debts. It extracted pounds of flesh from bank shareholders before writing checks. Banks had to write down losses and issue warrants to the government.
YouTube - Defazio "We shouldn't be rushed into this!"
Powerful, convincing argument coming out of Oregon's representative Defazio. I fear he is right.

Medical studies about drugs may be victims of spin, says report: Scientific American Blog
...more than half of studies on government-approved medications—presumably the ones that show a drug doesn't work—are never published, and those that are show disproportionately positive results.
Two Advances for Breast Cancer Patients - Consults Blog - NYTimes.com
Julie's Health Club - Where alternative and mainstream health meet | Chicago Tribune | Blog | Blogroll
"Communication breakdowns are the most common root cause of heath care errors that harm patients." ---Paul Schyve, chair of the American Medical Association's Ethical Force Program's Oversight Body.
The Particle Zoo: Subatomic Particle Softies
George F. Will - McCain Loses His Head - washingtonpost.com
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?
PLoS ONE: Thinking about Not-Thinking: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation
NPR: Calculus of Anxiety
Health & Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D. » Talking diet with your doctor
NPR: Now We See It: The White House Bailout Proposal
Vanguard - Fund Performance
Commodity Mutual Funds
Does Dietary Fiber Prevent Heart Disease? - Healthoid
I found this interesting. Gotta research the claims, but this guy asserts that added fiber (supplements) are unhealthy because the prevent absorption of fat soluble vitamins, minerals and fatty acids, among other things.
eBooks.com - Good Calories, Bad Calories eBook
Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Gizmodo UK: Blu-ray Prices Destined To Continue Crushing Wallets
Downsized Target: Scientific American
ADDLs and Alzheimer's
Discovery Supports Theory of Alzheimer's Disease as Form of Diabetes , NewsCenter, Northwestern University
Discovery supports theory of Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes
Jennifer McLagan on her controversial cookbook, Fat
The Day I Was Denied Communion for Endorsing Obama, by Douglas Kmiec - Steven Waldman
Good Math, Bad Math : The Total Stupidity of Crowds: Bad Mortgages and Circular Solutions
So - the insurance company is guaranteeing the value of the banks mortgage loans, using money that it borrowed from the bank, which the bank had to borrow because it7s got these bundles of leans insured by the insurance company. In other words, the banks are insuring their loans themselves, using the loans to pay for the losses on the loans. It7s circularity on circularity on circularity - cycles within cycles of stupidity, relying on stupidity to prop it up.
I don7t believe that believers really believe | Jamie Whyte - Times Online
Flickr Photo Download: For a better start in life start COLA earlier!
YouTube - Escape de Sofía
Amazing little beagle.

Lifestyle Changes Boost Enzyme Regulating Cell Aging - washingtonpost.com
Ron Paul on Gold and Sound Money | Ron Paul .com
Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you are dying. | Voltage Blog
Edge 257
The Gentleman Grafter: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
YouTube - Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene
Phunny...

Falcon: get to grips with a real gaming experience - Times Online
HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)
It takes a while, but a very nice conclusion.
Op-Ed Columnist - Making America Stupid - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
I don't always agree with this guy, but his point about McCain's refrain "Drill, drill, drill" is right on.
Tires: Your New Tires Could Be Six-Year-Old Death Traps
VERY important info. Explains how to determine how old your tires are. If they are older than 6 years old, get new owns. You're at risk of a blow out.

Tires: Your New Tires Could Be Six-Year-Old Death Traps
10 things you wanted to do with Ubuntu but didn7t know how! :: The Tux Geek
YouTube - Ferguson Speaks From The Heart
I like this guy.
20 Beautiful but Critically Endangered Forests | WebEcoist
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week
Editorial - Gov. Palin's Worldview - Editorial - NYTimes.com
As we watched Sarah Palin on TV the last couple of days, we kept wondering what on earth John McCain was thinking.
Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution - Telegraph
An evolutionary step in the right direction?
Addiction
Relation Between Blood Glucose and Coronary Mortality Over 33 Years in the Whitehall Study -- Brunner et al. 29 (1): 26 -- Diabetes Care
Health & Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D. » The sugar hypothesis
At the 10 year followup of the 18, 403 men the researchers found that heart disease mortality started to increase at blood sugar levels above 95 mg/dl, but that those subjects with blood sugar levels below 95 mg/dl showed no increased risk for death from heart disease.
NEJM -- 10-Year Follow-up of Intensive Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes
Health & Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D. » More supporting evidence for the sugar hypothesis
Whole Health Source: Inactivity and Weight Gain
www.Omegasixthedevilsfat.com
Paul Rothemund details DNA folding | Video on TED.com
You know you're a redneck...
Read the last caption, hilarious!
"War Is A Racket" By Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.
James Fallows (September 12, 2008) - The Palin interview (Politics)
Fallows is a brilliant mind and describes the critical weakness of Palin as V.P. Totally agree. She's not ready for the job and cannot be in two months, as Fallows clearly explains.
Comedian Sabina Guzzanti 'insulted Pope' in 'poofter devils' gag - Times Online
An Italian comedienne who said that Pope Benedict XVI would go to Hell and be tormented by homosexual demons is facing a prison term of up to five years.

No freedom of speech in Italy? Jeez!
Ben Smith's Blog: Planned Parenthood defends Obama, attacks McCain - Politico.com
2008 Summer Paralympic Games - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Amazing!
foodarazzi.com | Carbs: friend or foe?
I cannot believe doctors and health officials still advice diabetics to eat starchy, high carb foods at every meal. How irresponsible is that? Carbs increase blood glucose levels, and diabetics have serious trouble regulating blood glucose. These recommendations are atrocious! Are diabetics really following them?!
Magento - Home - Open Source eCommerce Evolved
Looks like a very good package from the demo.
EVERYTHING 2.0: SOFTWARE 2.0 - The 377 best libraries, catalogs, platforms, frameworks, solutions to publish better blogs, sites, portals & communities, and much more
Op-Ed Columnist - Blizzard of Lies - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Green tea
8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts | WebTecker the latest Web Trends, Resources and News.
Popular deal sites - August 2008 at ProBargainHunter.com
What good "Deal" sites do you shop from? I currently use bensbargains.net but I'm sure there are better sites out there. : AskReddit
YouTube - John McCain's ads are LIES. Here's the video proof.
Interesting...

Carbs Diet Information
Pipe smoking rabbit controls the world...
Newbies: 9 Ubuntu & Debian commands you should know :: The Tux Geek
The 10 Commandments of Facebook | Cracked.com
Don't Ask If - Ask Which . . . How to Turn a No Into a YES! |
For those needing to defend themselves from aggressive sales folk.
Creationists rewrite natural history - Telegraph
Very odd. I'm surprised Attenborough agreed to that.
YouTube - Damon Condemns Palin
Swype's new keyboard technology Video - Free Video Downloads - CNET TV
Looks very cool. Would take some getting used to, but may be quite useful.
Edward de Bono basic tihnking course
Fearing end of the world, girl commits suicide
How very sad....Even my young son was concerned about the claims. Young minds are so much more susceptable to the bullshit hype spread by those writing headlines solely to attract attention....And adults are obviously not immune.
American Dream Project
Study shows yoga can help back pain - Yoga - Revolution Health
Dogs And Cats Can Live In Perfect Harmony In The Home, If Introduced The Right Way
Sidetaker website lets internet commenters solve relationship rows - Telegraph
Why aren't women furious about Sarah Palin? | Salon Life
Such language!
UC HealthNews : Bisphenol A Linked to Metabolic Syndrome in Humans
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics bisphenol A (BPA) as a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome and its consequences....In a laboratory study, using fresh human fat tissues, the UC team found that BPA suppresses a key hormone, adiponectin, which is responsible for regulating insulin sensitivity in the body and puts people at a substantially higher risk for metabolic syndrome.
A Comprehensive and Totally Universal Listing of Every Problem a Story Has Ever Had
House Industries
102 year old man explains English spelling...cute.
Creature Survives Naked in Space | LiveScience
10 Principles of the PHP Masters - NETTUTS
Doctors keep secrets: Tell us what yours has kept :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News
Man says he's eaten 23,000 Big Macs since 1972 - Boston.com
BBC NEWS | Health | Pollution 'hinders heart pacing'
7Healthful7 products helped kill son, man says - Inside Bay Area
Make life miserable for cellphone thieves - Technology Live - USATODAY.com
ESPN - Armstrong 7100 percent committed to return to cycling - Cycling
Top 25 Careers to Pursue in a Recession - HR World
10 Tips to Avoid Information Overload at Work
Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics - TIME
Excellent points.
ElectraFlyer C all-electric airplane photo, environment-friendly aircraft with electric motor pictures | DWS Aviation
glumbert - The Greek Are Pyros
How you can stay flexible by stretching your mind ... and body | Mail Online
4 Ways to Avoid MRSA Infections in Kids - On Parenting (usnews.com)
online selling techniques
mental_floss Blog » Amazing 70-year-old color photos
Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos | Wired Science from Wired.com
VERY cool.
Link TV | Television Without Borders
Image:Craigslist01.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[ timebeat]
Frinko » Truly a marvelous piece of engineering!
Switzerland "could become a feudal state" claims an economist. - swissinfo
Amazing Spiral Illusion
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shun meat, says UN climate chief
'Consoles Are a Problem,' says Lorne Lanning - Video Game News, Video Game Coverage, Video Game Updates, PC Game News, PC Game Coverage - GameDaily
WTF Is In My Salad Picture
GOG.com Teaser
Energi som syns - Home Energy
Energy Ball - A Cheap And Efficient Wind Turbine | Device Daily
Hackszine.com: HOWTO - reset a lost Ubuntu password
The Brilliance of Military Warnings
YouTube - ScanRobot - the automatic book scanner (part no 1)
10 Germy Surfaces You Touch Every Day
Neurophilosophy : Lessons about memory from Homer Simpson
Why Men Die Sooner, New Book Called "Why Men Die First" Explains How Men Can Close The Longevity Gap - CBS News
Good Calories, Bad Calories: What Really Makes Us Fat?
Good, accessible summary of Taubes' main points.
The Truth About the Historical Jesus | Standpoint.Online
Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com
The Office Blog » Blog Archive » 10 Effective Ways To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft
Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak.
A bookseller who has all the books in the world..but one...
Oil Analysts Can't Seem to Make up Their Minds | Daily Fuel Economy Tip
If the price of oil/gas depends on WORLD supply (released supply), and offshore and north slope drilling will not affect world supply, how will our drilling help us? It won't lower the price of oil. It will only shift some money to those firms drilling on U.S. soil/ocean--presumably U.S. oil firms. How does that help the average American? Some jobs added, sure. But what else? We're still dependent on the foreign/worldwide supply regardless of our own drilling.
For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving - NYTimes.com
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chimps 'are people, too'
abc13.com: New treatment allows for more precise detection of tumors 9/05/08
Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser - good coders code, great reuse
CNN Turns Video of Great Boobs Into Bad Television - Funny Videos | Cracked.com
13 High Speed Photography Images
Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website with Scott Adams' color strips, Dilbert animation, mashups and more!
Free Teacher Websites: create a teacher website
Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome | Health | Reuters
The curse word 'Battlestar Galactica' created - CNN.com
Frak!!! And perhaps Scrubs can be credited with "Frick!"
1218754265947wq9.jpg (JPEG Image, 380x220 pixels)
Can I...Can I play you?
Backstage with Barack - Photo Essays - TIME
The Secular Coalition for America constituency
Rep was on Colbert...Phunny.
Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama | AUDACITY OF TRUTH | Obama Lies | ObamaLies.com | OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES
I found this interesting reading...
The exorcism of voodoo economics « The Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi
Welcome to WhizBiz - Home of the Whiz Freedom
Giving women the freedom to pee standing up....Not such a bad idea.
Marriage problems? Husband's genes may be to blame | Science | Reuters
In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take On New Roles - washingtonpost.com
It turns out that about 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies, insects preserved in genomic amber, DNA fossils.
Motorcycles Pollute More Than SUVs | Autopia from Wired.com
Health & Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D. » Two eggs per day keeps the belly fat away
But, for those who were restricting calories, the satiating effects of the eggs must have helped them stick to their caloric restriction better than did the bagel. And, as I've pointed out in other posts, carbs override the satiety center in the brain, allowing people to eat more even when they're full. The bagel breakfast provided almost 50 percent more carb than the egg breakfast. Fat and protein both stimulate the satiety center causing a feeling of fullness more quickly, and the egg breakfast contained about 25 percent more protein and 30 percent more fat, which makes it kind of a no-brainer that the egg breakfast should be more satiating than the bagel breakfast.
Hybrids Good for the Environment, Bad for Your Wallet? | Daily Fuel Economy Tip
JavaScript Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheets - Added Bytes
on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture For Men]: Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good
Funny video clips of mostly lucky people.
AFF Doublethink Online » The Diet Wars
What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
Superb! A brief read but well worth it.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How to survive a bellyflop from a height
Scientists develop new method to investigate origin of life
This is soooo cool. Fascinating potential.
Chocolate Lovers Pained by Candy Changes
No Mo Cocoa Butter!
Statin drug warning over fears it could cause cancer | Mail Online
It showed a total of 105 cancer cases among Inegy patients compared with 70 taking a placebo. That was an increase on the preliminary rates of 93 and 65 respectively reported in July....The trial found no benefit of the drug in reducing aortic disease in patients with a partially blocked heart valve, and little effect on cardiovascular events such as heart attacks.

Increased cancer risk (though probably low in the relative sense) AND no benefit in preventing cardiovascular events in patients with partially blocked heart valve...who were born on a Tuesday :)
Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities: Scientific American
Penny Arcade! - The Gabriel Effect
Noonan, Murphy trash Palin on hot mic: 'It's over' - Yahoo! News
"It's over," said Noonan, and then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen...."The most qualified? No. I think they went for this -- excuse me -- political bullsh** about narratives," she said. "Every time Republicans do that... because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good atand they blow it."
A Small Title Won't Work | Freedom From The Mundane
As Robert Frost once said: "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."
Top 6 Myths: About Bottled Water
High blood calcium tied to lethal prostate cancer| Health | Reuters
Men with elevated levels of calcium in their blood may have a much higher risk of getting fatal prostate cancer, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday....The findings indicate that a simple blood test may identify men at high risk for the most dangerous prostate tumors, and there already are drugs available that cut calcium levels in the bloodstream, the researchers said.
Turtle and fishies...
Top 100 Recipients of Federal Assistance for FY 2008

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