• Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations
  because other people have different incentives than you. look out for your own interests
• Adventures in Capitalism: The 7 Steps of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs
  Once upon a time.... And every day .... Until one day .... And because of that .... And because of that .... Until Finally .... Ever since that day .... And the moral is....

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• The new Commanding Heights — Marginal Revolution
  …close to 98 percent of the 27.3 million new jobs in the American economy in the last two decades were created in the nontradable sectors, led by government and health care in first and second place.
• Chosen - a javascript plug-in for jQuery and Prototype - makes select boxes better
  friendly select and option menus - awesome
• Just Let Them Eat the Marshmallow - The Daily Beast
  self control can't be determined from marshmallows

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• jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0
  sortable tables
• Stop Making Sprites (Compass, Sass, and PNG Sprite Generation) | Viget Inspire

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• Data URI Sprites — eBay Tech Blog
  send sprites as data

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• Holy Comolli, Statman! Liverpool’s Data Revolution | The Tomkins Times | Paul Tomkins' blog about Liverpool Football Club (LFC)
  moneyball takes over soccer
• User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter « Boriss' Blog
  computers aren't friendly for the non-computer user
• Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds | Duke Today
  raise expectations
• Charlie's Diary: The High Frontier, Redux
  space travel is really, really, hard: When we look at the rest of the solar system, the picture is even bleaker. Mars is ... well, the phrase "tourist resort" springs to mind, and is promptly filed in the same corner as "Gobi desert". As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
• oop - Monopoly game in OOD? - Stack Overflow
  got asked this in an interview
• How Can We Get Willpower Back Once It Has Been Depleted? - Science and Religion Today
  eat, sleep, get in a good mood. also, build your willpower muscle
• Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story - Andrew Winston - Harvard Business Review
  So the journal article adds this up to an obvious conclusion: if you want to reduce your food's carbon footprint, eat less meat. In short, "Shifting less than one day per week's worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."
• BBC News - How engineers create artificial sounds to fool us
• Beans and Noses » UIE Brain Sparks
  Time and time again, I come across situations where I think, “OMG! They are trying to stick beans up their nose!” It explains what’s happening and what I should do next. The only thing I can do in a beans-and-noses situation (notice my clever use of flight-attendant grammar forms?) is wait. Wait until the bean is in its final resting place. Then, with a calmness only seen in yoga instructors, I can turn the nose owner and ask, “So, how is that working for you? Did it do everything you’d hoped?” Of course, if they answer they enjoyed it and it was wonderful, then they are not someone I can relate to or help in any way.
• Wolves replace sweat with science in new take on pre-season training | Football | The Guardian
  science of soccer training. replicate in practice the type of runs you do in games (jogs, sprints in short bursts, with rest)
• A History of College Grade Inflation - NYTimes.com
  43% of all letter grades were a's, private colleges leading the way
• Who Cares About Forecast Accuracy? | Robin Hanson | Cato Unbound
  predictions more to signal your affiliation than to be accurate. no one cares about accurate predictions. let people bet, so they can at least profit from accuracy
• The Sunscreen Smokescreen
  takeaways: most people put on 1/3 proper amount of sunscreen. should put on 30 mins before entering sun, 30 minutes after being in the sun.

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• 10 Ideas for Beginner Web Developers | Chris Oliver
• New CSS Sticky Footer - 2010 - HTML for Bottom of Page Footer

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• Help.GitHub - Git cheat sheets

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• bigseadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Factsheet-Where-are-my-rounded-corners.pdf
  stop demanding your website look the same in all browsers, let your developers work on more important stuff instead.
• Snooze you win? It's true for achieving hoop dreams, says study - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine
  The researchers asked the players to maintain their normal nighttime schedule (sleeping for six to nine hours) for two to four weeks and then aim to sleep 10 hours each night for the next five to seven weeks. During the study period, players abstained from drinking coffee and alcohol, and they were asked to take daytime naps when travel prohibited them from reaching the 10 hours of nighttime sleep. At the end of the sleep extension period, the players ran faster 282-foot sprints (16.2 seconds versus 15.5 seconds) than they had at baseline. Shooting accuracy during practice also improved: Free throw percentages increased by 9 percent and 3-point field goal percentage increased by 9.2 percent. Fatigue levels decreased following sleep extension, and athletes reported improved practices and games.

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• How to Actually Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design — Space
  wordpress space theme
• Recology SF • San Francisco Residential Compost Collection Program
  what you can compost and what you can't. no food stained aluminum foil
• WMD Editor WordPress Plugin — Chad Von Lind
  (tags: luxr)
• Showdown - Markdown in Javascript
  view markdown & text side by side.

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• quine リレー - まめめも
  quine through 11 different languages. pretty neat
• How to Transfer a Domain from Godaddy to Namecheap: The Complete Guide
  soon
• Literate Programming - Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
  more about REST
• REST: the quick pitch | Quoderat
  some notes on how to do REST

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