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Del.icio.us Roundup: May 2007

• 2007 Mothers’ Index - “The Mothers’ Index helps document conditions for mothers and children in 140 countries–41 developed nations and 99 in the developing world–and shows where mothers fare best and where they face the greatest hardships.” US in at 26.
• Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death - “The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer…”
• Can This Black Box See Into the Future? - “What his experiments appear to demonstrate is that while we may all operate as individuals, we also appear to share something far, far greater - a global consciousness.”
• Chad demobilises child soldiers - “Chad’s government has signed a deal with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to begin demobilising child soldiers from its national army.” It’s a start.
• Christians and atheists start a calmer dialogue - “Atheist militancy followed Christian vehemence; now some on both sides see the need for cooler rhetoric.”
• Directory of Free Online Books - Free online books on hundreds of topics.
• Drunk Sleeping Beauties - Pictures of people who’ve gotten smashed, only to have their friends do things to them in the night.
• Encyclopedia of Life - “Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.” Pity the “experts” working on this wouldn’t just contribute to the encyclopedias that already exist online. Academics, as usual.
• Gays, horses, bimbos and bestiality. - “You’re connecting with another intelligent being.” But the more the men talk, the more this pretense unravels. “I don’t need a high level of emotional interaction.”
• Generic versus brand-name drugs - “The differences between a brand-name drug and its generic counterpart are in the coloring, shape, and name….Some differences among the inactive ingredients, but those do not have any effect on the desired benefits of the medication.”
• Google on Inventions - Sexism in search engines?
• How Much Does a Web Page Cost? - A good breakdown of what the costs are in web design.
• LOLTrek - “What would a lolcat story look like? What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it? The answer is clear: they would show Star Trek.”
• ‘Mind-Reading’ Device Could Revolutionize Video Games - “It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology. Behind the mask is a sensor that touches the user’s forehead and reads the brain’s electrical signals, then sends them to a wireless receiver…”
• Meatball ‘art’ made from human fat - “Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti mixed fat removed from his body by liposuction with ground beef to make meatballs, which he fried in olive oil and displayed in a public gallery.”
• Mr. Picassohead - Use Picasso-style bits to create a unique face. Cute and fun.
• MySpace Sex Offenders, Five of Nine Still Online - “MySpace has found and deleted ‘a few thousand’ sex offenders since it announced its program to match Megan’s Law registries with its user list last December…But it looks like thousands more may remain.”
• Naughty Man in Wheelchair - “Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who was riding along on a motorway after he got lost while looking for a brothel.”
• Of nomads and nanotech - “The solar-powered device, known as Portable Light, can provide 10 hours of bright light after just three hours in the Sun…”
• NoteCard - “NoteCard is a friendly utility that teaches you to recognize musical notes.”
• Organism found, amazes scientific world - Greenish-orange slime found at nuclear waste site in Savannah, South Carolina. It turns out it is a living organism, among all the lethal radiation.
• Paralyzed Mice Walk Again - “A group of lab mice were intentionally paralyzed…pioneers in the field [of] regenerative medicine…developed a liquid that is injected into the severed spines of these mice that restores their ability to move within six weeks.”
• Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers’ Brains - “…high-tech binoculars 10 times more powerful than anything available today, augmented by an alerting system that literally taps the wearer’s prefrontal cortex to warn of furtive threats detected by the soldier’s subconscious.”
• Print Your Own Candy - A candy printer. “Our three dimensional fabricator is now fully operational and we have used it to print several large, low-resolution, objects out of pure sugar.”
• Robot nose given keen smell sense - “A layer of artificial mucus has been found to improve the ability of an “electronic nose” to precisely sniff out aromas in foods and perfumes.”
• Rubikcubism - French artist who makes “pixel art” with Rubik cubes.
• Skin Whitening is All the Rage - “The Chinese are obsessed with light skin, and from casting soap stars to choosing a marriage partner, the preference is clear: the lighter the better.”
• Snapshots from School - “After two days at the orientation for new students, she commented on the school’s basic M.O., ‘I’ve figured out that they use fear a lot.’”
• Solar Power From Space - “The basic idea: build huge satellites in Earth orbit to gather sunlight, convert it to electricity, and beam the energy to Earth using microwaves.”
• SuTree - SuTree is an online index and library for free video-based lessons, tutorials, lectures and how-tos.
• Tale of the last 90 minutes of woman’s life - “Aside from one patient who briefly checked on her condition, no one helped her. A janitor cleaned the floor around her as if she were a piece of furniture. A closed-circuit camera captured everyone’s apparent indifference.”
• Team cracks chapel’s music ‘code’ - “A father and son team from Edinburgh think they have found a secret piece of music hidden in carvings at a famous medieval chapel in Midlothian.”
• Ultrasound and the future of abortion. - “Ultrasound has exposed the life in the womb…The fetus is squirming, and so are we. Critics complain…But you should look at it, and so should the guy who got you pregnant…”
• Washington Watch - Tracks the bills in Congress, along with estimates about their costs or savings, when available.
• Where Can I Find Free Violin Sheet Music? - “If you are looking for violin sheet music to expand your repertoire without breaking your budget, you have several legal options.”
• Woman had bullet in head for 64 years - “A Chinese grandmother who went to hospital with a headache was found to have had a bullet in her head for 64 years.”

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