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Snippets » July 2007

• inverse relationship between grades and sex drive posited → what if you’re really smart about getting laid? Ah. Paradoxes. #
• A-List Bloggers: It’s a fad. Everyone go home now. → Well I’ll be. They’re not tech gods? #
• it’s apparently national orgasm week. This week. → One week a year just isn’t that great, is it? #
• Scarlett Johansson will play Jenna Jameson → zomg bewbies #
• The Kremlin is like something conceived by Mario Puzo → Kasparov on Putin and politics in Russia today #
• being aggressive leads to higher pay. Umm. duh. → But then the article had to go and bring gender into it. #
• from flirting to fornication → like this is a bad thing… Granuiad writer sounds like nose is distinctly out of joint here. #
• childrens books are banned from the NYT bestseller lists → err. right. Not that I use the NYT bestseller list for my reading decisions, but ok. #
• eating beef is less green than driving → that’s too bad for the planet then. I’m probably close to being classed as a militant carnivore. #
• Collaborative filtering for news sources → this is an idea that sounds like it should work in practice - but one man’s news is another man’s propaganda. I expect it to be gamed viciously if it ever becomes popular. #
• a new superhero for this day and age - splogfighter → the database of 13m blogs sounds rather creepy though #
• PHP4 will not be supported after this year → end of an era? I just hope everyone upgrades. #
• let loose the badgers of war, they said. → may I be only about the millionth person to chant “badger, badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom”. #
• joke comprehension may decrease with age → laugh it up, junior. laugh it up. #
• smacks ever so slightly of elitism, but there is a lot to agree with in this review → jumped the shark. Over. I still watch the Simpsons though. #
• rent a house and get richer → skippy pointed me to this a while ago. It flies in the face of everything I thought made fiscal sense. So. Confused. #
• is anything safe to eat anymore? → can’t help but feel slightly aggrieved at this. #
• how to retain people → lots of interesting stuff there #
• Time notices 37Signals → ultimately not a great deal of new insight, though #
• not sure this article is enough to reform GWB in the public eye but … → the human touches were very nicely done. #
• blog and social network by proxy → ghostwriter? Who’s that? oh, but this is Facebook. It’s different. #
• fried chicken → it’s the spice mix that counts #
• why poor countries remain poor → the rest of the site is a bit suspect for my left leaning self, but this article mirrors my observations elsewhere #

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