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slowfoxCurrently, I just have the one icon *points left*, but I'm sure that one of these Warning Signs could be repurposed. I rather like 'Existential Threat' and 'Group Intellect'.
In findings that I really hope people don't try and transfer to the workplace, The Discovery Channel has an article about how birds sing better under stress.
One of the great things about the web is that I no longer need to paddle a kayak over a 186 foot waterfall, because this guy has done it already, and posted the video to boot*. What d'ya mean, 'why?'?
Moving from video to film (smooth transition, no?), Empire is 20 years old. Teh Grauniad has posted a picture gallery to commemorate the occasion. I know that the landing image is one of Tom Cruise, but there are better pics after that. Honest!
Social Networking news now, and another person tries to look clever by predicting the Death of Faceboook. To be fair, this is Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, but I rather suspect that this is one of those occasions where people will, from time to time, predict the Death of Facebook. The one that gets it right will be lauded as a True Seer of Tehcnological Trends, which would obviously be quite a prize.
Sticking with the crowds, The Guardian had an article about how sites don't delete users' photos, but just 'hide' them instead. Of interest to us is that LJ gets specifically named as one of the worst culprits which suggested, to the researchers involved, 'a lazy approach to user privacy.'
The same paper's Jack Schofield has a blog on phising on Facebook and Twitter, observing how The Bad Guys are moving to social engineering attacks these days, through the medium of social networks because, as he says, 'we trust our friends to send us good links'.A particularly clever ruse was the use of a fake-Twitter URL that used two 'v's to replace the 'w'...
Changing subject to the pretty, Look: a cloud that looks like Great Britain! It must be a sign... Also, the Art of the Barista is worth a look :-)
Following on from that air-powered car last week, air-fuelled batteries are the next big thing, with (it says here) 10 times the storage power of conventional cells.
And finally, filed under 'Gosh, why didn't anyone tell me?', researchers have learned that drinking 10 litres of Coke a day can have adverse effects. (OK, I'm paraphrasing - they actually identify the danger range as 2l - 10l per day, but srsly, ten litres a day????)
ETA: Film posters re-envisioned with LEGO! Particularly like I amLegend Lego and the one for 300. Noticed, too, that the HP poster is for HBP (Lego version), but OotP (original)...
*or 'to boat', as Hagrid might (apparently) say </film accent nit-picking>
In findings that I really hope people don't try and transfer to the workplace, The Discovery Channel has an article about how birds sing better under stress.
One of the great things about the web is that I no longer need to paddle a kayak over a 186 foot waterfall, because this guy has done it already, and posted the video to boot*. What d'ya mean, 'why?'?
Moving from video to film (smooth transition, no?), Empire is 20 years old. Teh Grauniad has posted a picture gallery to commemorate the occasion. I know that the landing image is one of Tom Cruise, but there are better pics after that. Honest!
Social Networking news now, and another person tries to look clever by predicting the Death of Faceboook. To be fair, this is Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, but I rather suspect that this is one of those occasions where people will, from time to time, predict the Death of Facebook. The one that gets it right will be lauded as a True Seer of Tehcnological Trends, which would obviously be quite a prize.
Sticking with the crowds, The Guardian had an article about how sites don't delete users' photos, but just 'hide' them instead. Of interest to us is that LJ gets specifically named as one of the worst culprits which suggested, to the researchers involved, 'a lazy approach to user privacy.'
The same paper's Jack Schofield has a blog on phising on Facebook and Twitter, observing how The Bad Guys are moving to social engineering attacks these days, through the medium of social networks because, as he says, 'we trust our friends to send us good links'.A particularly clever ruse was the use of a fake-Twitter URL that used two 'v's to replace the 'w'...
Changing subject to the pretty, Look: a cloud that looks like Great Britain! It must be a sign... Also, the Art of the Barista is worth a look :-)
Following on from that air-powered car last week, air-fuelled batteries are the next big thing, with (it says here) 10 times the storage power of conventional cells.
And finally, filed under 'Gosh, why didn't anyone tell me?', researchers have learned that drinking 10 litres of Coke a day can have adverse effects. (OK, I'm paraphrasing - they actually identify the danger range as 2l - 10l per day, but srsly, ten litres a day????)
ETA: Film posters re-envisioned with LEGO! Particularly like I am
*or 'to boat', as Hagrid might (apparently) say </film accent nit-picking>
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Date: 2009-05-23 07:42 am (UTC)There is a guy I work with who drinks 16 cans of Mountain Dew every day. I'm guessing he realizes it's not a particularly healthy lifestyle, but can't do anything about it. When he went on a business assignment to a country where Mountain Dew is not sold, his manager had to ship him Mountain Dew by the case. The second such shipment got held up at Customs because they figured he was trying to illicitly import the stuff for resale.
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Date: 2009-05-23 07:54 am (UTC)16 cans a day sounds... worrisome.
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Date: 2009-05-23 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-23 07:37 pm (UTC)I count myself glad, then, that Mountain Dew has yet to make it to this Sceptr'd Isle...
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Date: 2009-05-23 09:47 am (UTC)Gosh, that Jaws poster *giggles*
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Date: 2009-05-23 07:39 pm (UTC)Those Lego re-imaginings were pretty good, indeed :D
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Date: 2009-05-23 05:30 pm (UTC)And - ten l PER DAY?? Heck, I'd think even ONE l per day would have a somewhat negative impact. I can't imagine most people drink ten l of *anything* in a single day - I know we're supposed to stay hydrated, but that's an awful lot of fluids.
I recently read an equally "They spent money to research THIS?" article the other day, something about how the majority of college (uni) kids are stressed, and with that stress they are sometimes also depressed. No, really?
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Date: 2009-05-23 07:42 pm (UTC)Some of those hazard signs are, indeed, rather cool, and I suspect eminently iconisable. But for the time being, I'm being unimaginative and sticking with my one-icon-to-rule-them-all type thang...
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Date: 2009-05-23 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)