The World's Fair: "Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel have a newish book out which is just wonderful from a food perspective. Essentially, they've traveled the world to meet 'average' families and report on their dietary habits. Apart from being thematically intriguing from a journalistic point of view, it's also quite awesome from a visual perspective. Basically, Peter has taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals."

The National Sleep Research Project - 40 amazing facts about sleep: "

40 FACTS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW...
(OR WERE TOO TIRED TO THINK ABOUT)"

13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist Space

Reuters AlertNet - New human gene map shows unexpected differences: "LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - One person's DNA code can be as much as 10 percent different from another's, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that questions the idea that everyone on Earth is 99.9 percent identical genetically."

Valve Time - Valve Developer Community

9 Billion-Year-Old ‘Dark Energy’ Reported - New York Times: "A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace.

Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos."

Dark Matter Made Visible - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Dark Matter Made Visible

Does XML Suck?: "Or: Why XML is Technologically Terrible, but You Have to Use It Anyway"

Programming Theorems - destraynor: "If you boast about how quickly you developed your product, people will complain about its performance. (Rails)

If you boast about how well your product runs, people will complain about its development time. (Vista)

If you don't boast about either, people will assume you are developing in Java."

Satellite of solitude | COSMOS magazine: "Only a dozen men have walked the airless, forbidding surface of our Moon. One day, others will too - but until then, only those 12 can ever know what it is like … and Buzz Aldrin was the lunar module pilot on the very first mission."

Cool down – you may live longer - health - 03 November 2006 - New Scientist: "Researchers have found that lowering the body temperature of mice by just 0.5°C extends their lifespan by around 15%. In the future, people might be able to take a drug to achieve a similar effect on body temperature and enjoy a longer life, they say."

Proof that Internet porn prevents rape. - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine: "Does pornography breed rape? Do violent movies breed violent crime? Quite the opposite, it seems."

Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder 1.21 - Free php to exe converter!: "Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder is a free command line tool to convert PHP applications to standalone Windows .exe applications. The exe files produced are totally standalone, no need for php dlls etc. "

WinBinder: The native Windows binding for PHP: "WinBinder is a new open source extension for PHP, the script programming language. It allows PHP programmers to easily build native Windows applications. Click here for more information."

PHP Accelerators | MDLog:/sysadmin: "PHP Accelerators/Cachers will boost the performance of your PHP applications, by caching the compiled form of php scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling the code every time the page is loaded."