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Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:02:36 GMT

clipped by: sandeshkutty

Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
pinkyrocks+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
pinkyrocks+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com

Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give pinkyrocks+mailinglist1@gmail.com as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.

-unknown source

Tags: gmail, filter, email

Clipmarks in the New York Times!

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:16:50 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Congratulations, guys!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web

Published: June 17, 2006

There is another way to do almost everything these programs can do — some would say you can actually do more — and you can do it free. A number of smart programmers have developed word processing, spreadsheet, calendar and other software that you operate while in a Web browser.

Clipmarks (www.clipmarks.com) adds an element of the social networking that you find on Facebook or MySpace.

Tags: clipmarks, new york times, nytimes, publicity

A Guided Tour Of Your Body

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:56:46 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Whether it’s an aching back, too many nightly trips to the bathroom or a middle that seems to get thicker each year, changes in our health are inevitable as we get older. But while doctors tell us to focus on the basics — eat right, exercise and keep cholesterol and blood pressure in check — is there more that we need to know about staying well as we age?

In this special section, you’ll be able to take a head-to-toe tour of the body and learn the best that science and medicine can offer for taking care of yourself. What can women do to lower their risk for breast cancer? What’s the best way to keep skin looking young? How do you care for muscles, bones and joints?

Whether it’s practical advice for keeping your brain active or relief for aching feet, you’ll find answers to pressing medical questions and gain insights into healthy aging.

You can also test your knowledge at the Well blog, nytimes.com/well.

The Evolutionary Benefit of White Eyes

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:29:48 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Full article @ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/opinion/13tomasello.html
(you need an NYT login or bugmenot)

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

For Human Eyes Only

Why should humans be so different? And yet we are. We can’t fool anyone. The whites of our eyes are several times larger than those of other primates, which makes it much easier to see where the eyes, as opposed to the head, are pointed. Trying to explain this trait leads us into one of the deepest and most controversial topics in the modern study of human evolution: the evolution of cooperation.

The idea is simple. Knowing what another person is looking at provides valuable information about what she is thinking and feeling, and what she might do next. Even young children know that when a person is looking at one toy and not another, she most likely prefers that toy and may reach for it. Professional poker players are often so worried about others reading their minds by reading their eyes that they wear sunglasses.

Evolutionarily, it is easy to see why it is to your advantage to be able to tell with maximum certainty where I am looking. You may use this information to detect food you wouldn’t otherwise have seen, or to detect the dominant male approaching in a fighting mood.

If I am, in effect, advertising the direction of my eyes, I must be in a social environment full of others who are not often inclined to take advantage of this to my detriment — by, say, beating me to the food or escaping aggression before me. Indeed, I must be in a cooperative social environment in which others following the direction of my eyes somehow benefits me.

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that all great apes, including humans, follow the gaze direction of others. But in previous studies the head and eyes were always pointed in the same direction. Only when we made the head and eyes point in different directions did we find a species difference: humans are sensitive to the direction of the eyes specifically in a way that our nearest primate relatives are not. This is the first demonstration of an actual behavioral function for humans’ uniquely visible eyes.

Tags: white eyes, eye, eyes, looking, evolution, biology, chimpanzee, apes, gaze, primates, science, human, homo, cooperation, social

Bug Me Not - skip those annoying logons

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:06:11 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: www.bugmenot.com

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Tags: technology, computer, internet

Koppel on Bush Admin's War Tactics

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:45:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent & free this week on NYTimes.com

Clip Source: select.nytimes.com

The Long, Cost-Free War

TED KOPPEL

One can share the Bush administration’s perception that the United States confronts real threats that will not be eliminated easily or soon, but still find it impractical and immoral to get on with life as usual while placing the burden solely on the shoulders of the young men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, their families and friends.

We are left with the impression that the grown-ups in Washington would prefer to make the difficult decisions for us without involving the courts, Congress or the press. That is precisely the wrong way to go about winning this war. Back when the United States was widely admired, it was for all that was most cumbersome about our democratic process.

America’s efforts to transplant democracy elicit none of that admiration. How can they, when we appear to have lost confidence in fundamental aspects of democracy here at home? What has historically impressed our allies and adversaries has been our often flawed, but ultimately sincere, determination to operate within the law — if not always abroad, then at least within the United States.

Tags: politics, war, democracy, legal process, policy

NYTimes lauds Obama race speech: "a higher plane"

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:47:02 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "an honesty seldom heard in public life"

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs.

Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion, with its enduring vision of the separation between church and state. Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better.

Mr. Obama had to address race and religion, the two most toxic subjects in politics. He was as powerful and frank as Mitt Romney was weak and calculating earlier this year

He put Mr. Wright, his beliefs and the reaction to them into the larger context of race relations with an honesty seldom heard in public life.

There have been times when we wondered what Mr. Obama meant when he talked about rising above traditional divides. This was not such a moment.

he raised the discussion to a higher plane

Tags: opinion, politics, obama, race

Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:58:02 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Graphic "Genes and Human Migration": http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/25/science/26human-graphic.gif

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally

People have continued to evolve since leaving the ancestral homeland in northeastern Africa some 50,000 years ago, both through the random process known as genetic drift and through natural selection.

people in the various continents adapted to new diseases, climates, diets and, perhaps, behavioral demands.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The emerging lists of selected human genes may open new insights into the interactions between history and genetics. “If we ask what are the most important evolutionary events of the last 5,000 years, they are cultural, like the spread of agriculture, or extinctions of populations through war or disease,” said Marcus Feldman, a population geneticist at Stanford. These cultural events are likely to have left deep marks in the human genome.

Tags: evolution, homo sapiens, dna, race, genetics, natural selection, ancestry, science, culture, history

NYTimes: McCain not "natural born" citizen after all

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:39:11 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Most detailed analysis to date

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”

The analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen.

“It’s preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.”

Tags: mccain

The unreliable NYTimes reporter highlights Iran claims

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:22:35 GMT

clipped by: luixxiul
clipper's remarks: The report which this article deals with is: Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says

Clip Source: www.editorandpublisher.com

'NYT' Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran Claims

NEW YORK Saturday’s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the “deadliest weapon aimed at American troops” in Iraq. The author notes, “Any assertion of an Iranian contribution to attacks on Americans in Iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile.”

What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than “civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies.”

Sound pretty convincing? Well, almost all the sources in the story are unnamed. It also may be worth noting that the author is Michael R. Gordon, the same Times reporter who, on his own, or with Judith Miller, wrote some of the key, and badly misleading or downright inaccurate, articles about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

Gordon wrote with Miller the paper's most widely criticized -- even by the Times itself -- WMD story of all, the Sept. 8, 2002, “aluminum tubes” story that proved so influential, especially since the administration trumpeted it on TV talk shows.

Gordon also wrote, following Secretary of State Colin Powell's crucial, and appallingly wrong, speech to the United Nations in 2003 that helped sell the war, that "it will be difficult for skeptics to argue that Washington's case against Iraq is based on groundless suspicions and not intelligence information."

Now, more than four years later, Gordon reveals: “The Bush administration is expected to make public this weekend some of what intelligence agencies regard as an increasing body of evidence pointing to an Iranian link, including information gleaned from Iranians and Iraqis captured in recent American raids on an Iranian office in Erbil and another site in Baghdad.” Gordon's unnamed sources throughout the story are variously described as "Administration officials," "intelligence experts" and "American intelligence."

Tags: media, disinformation, politics, bush, bush administration, neocon, iran, iraq, terrorism, war on terror

NYT: Why Finishing College is Really Worth It

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:22:05 GMT

clipped by: craberry

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

But it isn’t anymore. Today the United States ranks ninth among industrialized nations in higher-education attainment, in large measure because only 53 percent of students who enter college emerge with a bachelor’s degree, according to census data. And those who don’t finish pay an enormous price. For every $1 earned by a college graduate, someone leaving before obtaining a four-year degree earns only 67 cents.

Tags: nytimes, college, education

Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:34:47 GMT

clipped by: constantskeptic
clipper's remarks: this is crazy

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Some cockroaches followed the behavior of robotic roaches.

Many a mother has said, with a sigh, “If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?”

The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to persuade real cockroaches to do things that their instincts told them were not the best idea.

This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that complex and even intelligent patterns can arise from simple behavior. Animal behavior research shows that swarms working together can prosper where individuals might fail, and robotics researchers have been experimenting with simple robots that, together, act a little like a swarm.

Dr. Halloy then replaced four of the cockroaches with four robots equipped with sensors to measure light and the proximity of other robots. When the robots emulated the real roaches, the group continued to seek the dark and crowded place.

Tags: roaches, nytimes, robots

Passwords suck - here's an alternative

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:57:35 GMT

clipped by: ghiberti

Clip Source: www.seopedia.org

Passwords suck, that’s why Bugmenot.com is a website that allows it’s members to share their passwords to various online services and websites.

For example, did you ever wanted to read a story at New York Times but you didn’t had an account ?

Bug me not NYT, then:

They have a cool and useful feature that allows members to vote on the success rate of a certain username and password. It works pretty good for the initial scanning about which of the usernames and passwords to try for your service.

This website is not one that I would actually enourage or approve (some of the websites in their database, like the NYtimes, usually charge for an account, so basically, this website is illegal), but I can’t help to see it’s definite advantage (to various users).

If I’ll receive any legal notices, I’ll remove the post :)

If you found this post useful please (new windows)

Technorati: BugMeNot, Bug Me Not, Shared Accounts, Shared Passwords, Shared Usernames

Tags: security, online, password, sharing, subscription

PC Mag Top Web Sites 2007: News

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:10:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Courtesy of TinyBellows

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

These are the first-thing-in-the-morning sites that keep us informed on what's going on in the world

Guardian Unlimited
www.guardian.co.uk

has become one of the most celebrated English-language papers around for its journalistic transparency. The Web version is equally excellent

The Smoking Gun
www.thesmokinggun.com

celebrity or other public figure

First Amendment rights and gossip

Slate
www.slate.com

perfected its own offbeat style

fact-checking them into oblivion

The Onion
www.theonion.com

signature brand of news-spoofing wit

NYTimes
www.nytimes.com

in-depth coverage of the nation and world

NPR
www.npr.org

from serious to downright silly

Fark.com
www.fark.com

"not news."

sometimes profane but always funny site

Gawker
www.gawker.com

celebrity blogs

Digg
www.digg.com

online popularity contest

best stuff is seen the most

not just tech stuff

not just text stuff

CNN.com
www.cnn.com

Recently redesigned and as newsy as ever

offering more and more to watch online, along with opportunities to contribute

Tags: news

Ayn Rand - Most Influential Business Book of All Time?

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:53:57 GMT

clipped by: constantskeptic
clipper's remarks: I want to read this book now, I guess that was the point of the article, a simple fluff piece.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

One of the most influential business books ever written is a 1,200-page novel published 50 years ago, on Oct. 12, 1957. It is still drawing readers; it ranks 388th on Amazon.com’s best-seller list.

The book is “Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand’s glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest.

For years, Rand’s message was attacked by intellectuals whom her circle labeled “do-gooders,” who argued that individuals should also work in the service of others. Her book was dismissed as an homage to greed. Gore Vidal described its philosophy as “nearly perfect in its immorality.”

“It offers something other books don’t: the principles that apply to business and to life in general. I would call it complete,”

Tags: ayn rand, business, books, best books, nytimes, ayn, rand

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Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally

NYTimes: McCain not "natural born" citizen after all

The unreliable NYTimes reporter highlights Iran claims

NYT: Why Finishing College is Really Worth It

Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts

Passwords suck - here's an alternative

PC Mag Top Web Sites 2007: News

Ayn Rand - Most Influential Business Book of All Time?