Monday, January 04, 2010

Informative Links

Why put off until tomorrow what pleasures you can enjoy today? Because people have the mistaken notion that someday they won't be as busy as they are today. (via Metafilter)

How to Start Freelancing (Without Quitting Your Job). This is the safest way to do it, however I know from experience that desperation is a wonderful motivator.

9 Hollywood Scandals Long Before Lindsay, Paris and Britney. Back in the old days, when a scandal might even hurt one's career!

What Israel can teach us about security. "The questions aren't important. The way people act when they answer them is," (via Metafilter)

Most explanations of Darwinian evolution refer to genetic material as the manner in which changes are passed down to one's descendants. Now we find that prions, non-living proteins with no DNA or RNA at all, evolve in response to their environment.

Half Guilty. If one conjoined twin committed a murder and the other was innocent, how would you punish him/her/them? (via Neatorama)

5 Tiny Technologies That Will Doom Us (From The Inside Out). Sure, they were developed to improve our lives, but we've seen too many sci-fi movies to believe it.

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