Feed Urbanization Favors Sedentary Males, Study With Blackbirds Shows (sciencedaily.com)
Urbanization changes landscapes and local environments, which can alter the life histories and traits of the creatures living in and around these areas. Studying European blackbirds scientists discovered certain adaptive traits, that in the long run, could lead to more offspring.
Submission + - Why you haven't heard of cell phone repeaters
SinaK writes: "Millions of people in the US have poor cell phone reception, whether because they are too far from a cell tower, or due to interference effects. A simple solution has existed for quite some time: cell phone repeaters. But most consumers haven't heard of them simply because current FCC regulations prevent networks from selling cell repeaters directly to customers."
Submission + - Ignorance Denied 3.0 - Gravitas - a skill game of
smirkley writes: "http://www.ignorancedenied.com/viewthread.php?tid= 5620
This game currently under development is gaining widespread enjoyement at the source site.
Traveling through space and manipulating trajectories while avoiding collisions on the way to your target."
Submission + - E-gold finally gets busted by feds
An anonymous reader writes: E-gold has been the leader in private Internet-based payment systems for many years. All that was needed to open an account was an e-mail address. It seems the federal government has finally found enough excuses to go after them:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/27/HNdigita lcurrencycharges_1.html?source=NLC-SOA&cgd=2007-05 -03
Submission + - Wikipedia nofollow benefits it's founder
joeszilagyi writes: "TechCrunch has an interesting story here, which exposes possible financial and ethical conflicts of interest for Wikipedia. Wikipedia put 'nofollow' tags on all outbound links previously. It turns out, however, that certain approved domains on a map page are excluded from nofollow. Coincidentally, all pages at Wikia.com, the private for-profit company that Jimmy Wales founded, are exempt from nofollow restrictions. Wikia is also a financial benefactor of Wikipeda. Wikipedia's power to benefit SEO page ranking is what led people to link spam them. By allowing some financial backers to benefit, is Wikipedia putting committing ethical breaches?"
Journal Journal: Bah Wimmins
Bah. TGF is starting to get on the "I need more time with you" kick. It seems my stop off last friday to see friend from the old job didn't sit to well. I was only there for an hour, and drank three glasses of water (I don't drink).
I work, she doesn't. She's suppose to be in school, but it doesn't look like she'll make it this term. So she does the housewife kind of thing.
Journal Journal: Week 3 of the new job
Ok so the new job is very cool. The shop is tight as hell, and the people are good. The one thing that does worry me is that we've just been bought by The Big Company(TM). Offer letters arrive Friday, so this will be interesting.
