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In the middle of reading Jonathan Black’s Yes You Can: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz and my favorite nugget so far

Heavy metals such as lead are the main sources of pollution, with 10 million people affected across the locations.

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The venomous weed, known to scientists as Lyngbya majuscula, has appeared in at least a dozen other places around the globe. It is one of many symptoms of a virulent pox on the world's oceans.

Lapointe began monitoring algae at Looe Key in 1982. He picked the spot, a 90-minute drive south of Key Largo, because its clear waters, colorful reef and abundance of fish made it a favorite site for scuba divers. Today, the corals are in ruins, smothered by mats of algae. Although coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, they are home to at least 2 million species, or about 25% of all marine life. They provide nurseries for fish and protect oceanfront homes from waves and storm surges.

Kaleider manipulates images to create sometimes complex pictures of reflected portions of the screen.  It is a capable graphics tool for people who are interested in symmetry, tiling, tessellation and mosaic patterns.  Aside from any usefulness though, Kaleider is really just entertaining and fascinating to watch while in Automatic Effects mode.  Kaleider actions can be captured to Video, and the Scripting feature makes it possible to design and refine performances of evolving Kaleider effects, possibly controlled through a MIDI device

And he often writes to me in response to something I might've written about the youth of today, anything where I comment on the various nefarious factors shaping their minds and their perspectives and whether or not, say, EMFs and junk food and cell phones are melting their brains and what can be done and just how bad it might all be. His response: It is not bad at all. It's absolutely horrifying.

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Cleaning Most dish-washing liquids and detergents are made from petroleum; some contain alkylphenol ethoxylates, which are suspected hormone disruptors. If in doubt, buy natural products (such as Ecover), wash your hands with plain soap, and clean your windows with vinegar or lemon juice.Children Avoid most plastic feeding bottles, which can contain bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical. Don't use old dummies and PVC toys that may contain now-banned phthalates. If pregnant, avoid paint or using DIY products that emit fumes. Buy children's clothes and pyjamas without plastic logos or chemical treatments.

If you’re on high speed Internet, you’re also going to want to consider this little speed-up trick. By default Firefox is set to only download pages to your browser with four simultaneous connections. This is alright if you’re on dial-up, but broadband can handle a lot more than that. Again type about:config in your browser’s address bar. On the config page, look for these three entries: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to True. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a higher number based on your net speed - somewhere between 10 and 30 ought to do it. As a final step, right-click the screen and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to “0″. This sets the amount of time the browser sits on its ass before acting. See the original article at Forever Geek. And if you are using IE, bang your head against your desk five times and then check out this video for a solution just for you. And finally, if that’s not enough - check out this nifty tool for tuning up Firefox. Appropriately named FireTune, the free application from Totalidea Software tunes up Firefox to work faster (very likely by implementing some of the above).

Adventures in $40 eyeglasses Matt Haughey | Nov 29 2007

It's the way to go Submitted by rblumberg on November 29, 2007 - 10:56am. We have great health insurance, so I use that to get one expensive pair of bifocals every couple of years. But I use zennioptical.com for reading and computer glasses. The reading glasses are simply the bottom part of my bifocal prescription. For computer glasses, I asked my ophthalmologist to give me a second prescription for a pair of glasses optimized for the typical distance from my eyes to my laptop screen (about 20”). I bought two pair of each prescription from Zenni Optical for $8 each. The whole order cost me less than $40, including shipping, for four pair of glasses. The frames are sturdy (with spring-loaded temples, no less); not particularly stylish but I wasn’t looking for style. And a lot cheaper than the drugstore cheaters, which I can’t use because of my astigmatism and because my eyes have very different vision. Richard

BY BRAAK AT 02/07/08 08:00 AM @NefariousNewt: I read...somewhere, probably in an Oliver Sacks book, about people that had strokes that affected the "math" parts of their brains. And because there's a fuction of your brain that's designed specifically to count, add, and subtract, if you get a stroke there, you can lose that ability. But! If that happens, your ability to multiply is not lost, because times tables are learned by rote. I always thought that was awesome.