Why you should think twice before taking a Facebook quiz – and so should your friends

Via Schneier – a hardware hacker looks at H1N1 flu. "A single base-pair change, flipping two bits, is perhaps all you need to turn the current less-deadly H1N1 swine flu virus into a more deadly variant."

Install a keylogger directly in the Mac keyboard's firmware!

It was Monday when we arrived at Peloso’s small back street shop. He had no stock bikes. All were made to order. “Yes I can make you a bike. When do you want to pick it up?” he asked. “We would like to leave on Friday” I replied. “Impossible, I have to build the frame, have it chromed and painted and then assembled by Friday! Impossible.” Then I mentioned that Baron Smith had sent us. “Well let me see what I can do” was the response…

Echoes something I read in Dan Coyle's "The Talent Code" – they probablly quote the same study – praising children for their effort had a positive effect, whereas praising for intelligence (an innate quality) had a negative effect. FTA:
The children were randomly assigned to two groups, both of which took an age-appropriate version of the IQ test. After taking the test, one group was praised for their intelligence – “You must be smart at this,” the researcher said – while the other group was praised for their effort and told they “must have worked really hard.” […] The final round of intelligence tests was the same difficulty level as the initial test. The students who had been praised for their effort raised their score, on average, by 30 percent. This result was even more impressive when compared to the students who had been praised for their intelligence: their scores on the final test dropped by nearly 20 percent.

How twitter came to have its corporate guts spilled across the Internet.

Ambitious: Philip Nagle wants to ride his bike through 48 states in 48 days. He started on July 20th.

Looks like the result of some serious time with GIS…or a yoga-practicing photographer who's got all the drunk hangouts staked out.

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