Smiling makes you happy

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Survey: Sex makes you happy |

Survey: Sex makes you happy | 05/31/2004 03:25 PM
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ecto Makes Me Happy Again

ecto Makes Me Happy Again 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Adriaan changed ecto so that it works with Drupal's input filters better, and after finally getting around to downloading and testing it I must say, it works like a charm. The caveat being you have to name your input filter either "Textile" or "Markdown" and if you do something like chain the filters in Drupal so that both work in one filter then it obviously won't know, etc. But for sites like this where I've named the filter after what it is, it's golden.

So, thank you, Adriaan.

And for Mr. Walker's statements about the blogapi.module I'll happily start filing bug reports on it as I figure out what's wrong. It wouldn't take much effort at all to get this working properly and then, well, sheer bliss when it does.

Boy-sweat makes women happy

Boy-sweat makes women happy 03/14/2003 10:05 PM
Research shows that male sweat puts women in a good mood.

In a study to be published in the journal Biology of Reproduction, researchers collected samples from the underarms of men who refrained from using deodorant for four weeks. The extracts were then blended and applied to the upper lips of 18 women, aged 25 to 45.

The women rated their moods on a fixed scale for a period of six hours. The findings suggested something in the perspiration brightened their moods and helped them feel less tense.

Blood analyses also showed a rise in levels of the reproductive luteinizing hormone that typically surge before ovulation.

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CollabNet revamp makes offshorers happy

CollabNet revamp makes offshorers happy 06/16/2004 04:30 PM
MS Project hits the bin

Irish unemployed smiling

Irish unemployed smiling 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
USA Today May 19 2004 11:54PM GMT

What Are You Smiling At, Traveler?
(Reuters)

What Are You Smiling At, Traveler?
(Reuters) 08/06/2004 07:42 AM
Reuters - The fight against terrorism has wiped the smile off the face of British passport holders.

Why Is This Guard Smiling? (Reuters)

Why Is This Guard Smiling? (Reuters) 05/26/2004 10:18 AM
Reuters - The head of Russia's border guards, fed up with their dour image, has ordered them to start smiling at visitors, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Putting A Smiling Face On The Database
That Knows Everything About You

Putting A Smiling Face On The Database
That Knows Everything About You 05/03/2004 06:03 PM
There are ways to argue that better management of information about someone can lead to better privacy protection. However, I've read and reread this article about how the CEO of ChoicePoint, a massive database company best known for providing background checks on anyone, is trying to openly discuss privacy concerns with people, and about the only thing I can get out of it is that he wants to convince us all that we should just trust him. He wants a debate, but doesn't do much to explain how a service like his actually protects our privacy. His only point is that the data should remain in separate databases - until someone does a search. Of course, this seems like semantics. If the search goes across multiple databases, then it's effectively a single database. He's also working to provide the backend of Stephen Brill's "No, I'm Not A Terrorist Card" that we discussed last year. The idea is that non-terrorists (who, as the saying goes, "have nothing to hide") reveal all sorts of info about themselves in exchange for a card that says, basically, "the person holding this card isn't a terrorist, don't bother making them stand in long security lines." As we pointed out, as voluntary as this sounds, it certainly seems like there would be an awful lot of guilt-by-no-association. "What, you mean, you didn't pass the 'I'm not a terrorist' test? What did you do?" But, thankfully, if we just trust this CEO (without understanding why we should trust him - and even though the article names some screwups the company has made in the past concerning privacy) we should have nothing to worry about.

High Tech Has Dentists Smiling

High Tech Has Dentists Smiling 05/18/2004 04:44 AM
Dentists in Silicon Valley are turning to technology to lure more patients. Lasers and digital imaging are key to maintaining a smile -- and erasing pain. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Smiling Bubbles Game for PalmOS

Smiling Bubbles Game for PalmOS 05/14/2004 06:12 AM

PlayStation Portable has Sony smiling

PlayStation Portable has Sony smiling 04/08/2005 08:25 AM
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Smiling banned on passports (Reuters)

Smiling banned on passports (Reuters) 08/06/2004 07:42 AM
Reuters - The fight against terrorism has wiped the smile off the face of British passport holders.

Those Irish eyes not smiling at Bush

Those Irish eyes not smiling at Bush 06/21/2004 06:40 PM

[Thank G*d it's Friday!] UK Home Office
bans smiling

[Thank G*d it's Friday!] UK Home Office
bans smiling 08/06/2004 07:56 AM
Heres a nice filler for a friday, made me chuckle anyway. Our fine friends over at The Inquirer have spotted an interesting piece of news that could threaten the reputation of Brits abroad everywhere (myself included).

THE HOME OFFICE has ordered British people to stop smiling on their passport photograph in a bid to save the country from a terror attack.
It seems that the British stiff upper-lip is required so that photos can be scanned by digital readers. The reader will compare the photo with the person standing in front of it.

According to guidelines issued for all those who want a passport their photos must be "looking straight at the camera, with a neutral expression, with their mouth closed".

Apparently a cheesy grin will chuck the scanner, which has an allergy to teeth, completely out of wack. Photo booth companies have been forced to update all their machines to ensure that the pictures are acceptable under the new rules. The Home Office said its requirements were in line with new international standards for biometric face-recognition schemes.

News source: The Inquirer

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Culture Clash: Those Li'l iPod Gods Are
Smiling

Culture Clash: Those Li'l iPod Gods Are
Smiling 09/06/2004 11:22 PM
In return for the loss of my library, I got 1,976 new songs chosen by someone else. By inheriting her music, I had a rare opportunity to spend some quality time in somebody else's musical mind. By Ron Rollins, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Seeking the Smiling Face of Nevada's
Nuclear Heyday (Los Angeles Times)

Seeking the Smiling Face of Nevada's
Nuclear Heyday (Los Angeles Times) 01/02/2005 07:20 AM
Los Angeles Times - LAS VEGAS — Long before Britney Spears' wedding made headlines here, another blond held Sin City in thrall.

Back in the U.S.S.R: White House Scrubs
Its Website When It Needs to Revise
History. Somewhere, Brezhnev is Smiling.
12/18

Back in the U.S.S.R: White House Scrubs
Its Website When It Needs to Revise
History. Somewhere, Brezhnev is Smiling.
12/18 12/18/2003 02:23 PM
manipulation, distrust and deceitfulness: .. Dana Milbank

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2ergo Group PLC in Premium Rate Phone
Scandal, Smile Telecom Still Smiling
with Unpaid Fines

2ergo Group PLC in Premium Rate Phone
Scandal, Smile Telecom Still Smiling
with Unpaid Fines 08/08/2004 02:05 AM
ICSTIS failure to STOP premium rate phone scams.... deal not in the public interest. [PRWEB Aug 8, 2004]

"An Islamic civil liberties group has
called for a Pentagon investigation into
an apparent gag photograph of a Marine
in Iraq taken during the last year. In
the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J.
Boudreaux Jr. is standing next to two
Iraqi boys. All three ..."

"An Islamic civil liberties group has
called for a Pentagon investigation into
an apparent gag photograph of a Marine
in Iraq taken during the last year. In
the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J.
Boudreaux Jr. is standing next to two
Iraqi boys. All three ..." 04/13/2004 03:29 AM

Are you happy now?

Are you happy now? 03/13/2003 03:27 PM
A 100-ton mech is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like Steelhead Battalion and Cthulhu Karts, it's possible that Schadenfreude Interactive might be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of Computer Games.

If You're Happy and You Know It...

If You're Happy and You Know It... 08/11/2004 01:58 PM
Cisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What took 'em so long?

Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? 02/01/2005 10:10 PM

Lorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.

WorldCat in Your Pocket

“WorldCat is our union catalogue of about 56 million bibliographic records, which represent approximately a billion holdings. It is about 50 gigabytes in MARC Communications (100+ gigabytes in XML) format and about 23 gigabytes compressed.

OCLC Research recently acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey, whose team has been working on the machine, the cluster speeds up most bibliographic processing by about a factor of 30. This means that what might have taken a minute now takes two seconds, what might have taken an hour takes two minutes, what might have taken a month takes a day. For jobs that will fit entirely in memory (e.g. a `grep' of WorldCat) avoiding disk i/o gives another factor of about 20, reducing 1-hour jobs down to 6 seconds. We can 'frbrize< /a>' WorldCat on the cluster in about an hour.

WorldCat is also now more mobile. Thom has a 40 gig iPod which can accommodate WorldCat on its disk with room left for 5,000 song tracks. Now, you can't do much with the data on the iPod, but you can certainly carry it around. Again, it takes about an hour to get it on and off the iPod.” [Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog, via It&rs quo;s All Good]

They’re all amazing numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction of the personal, mobile server in your pocket.

Happy PFD!...?

Happy PFD!...? 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Anyone in the mood for a celebration!? Today is Personal Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks?

Very Very Happy

Very Very Happy 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
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Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day! 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Happy Pi Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are more activities or you can just sing a song to ?.

Happy

Happy 02/01/2005 09:44 PM
It’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says “yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about it.”

.HAPPY

.HAPPY 02/10/2004 03:00 AM

The issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5 mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps.

.NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the rest confuses the issue.

One happy, one sad

One happy, one sad 01/30/2004 02:04 AM
Two things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the wild. not only there but here, and...

Happy New Year to all

Happy New Year to all 12/31/2003 07:20 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2003 6:12PM ET

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 01/01/2004 05:09 PM
Some Fun: Information Security Predictions for 2004!

Happy 2004!

Happy 2004! 12/31/2003 09:37 PM
Chances are, it's already 2004 where you live, or it will be in a few short hours. Here's to a happy New Year, full of geekery, a bit of gamin', and most importantly, family and friends.

Happy Trails

Happy Trails 03/23/2005 07:43 AM
Does hiking and sleeping under the stars sound like a perfect vacation? For guidebook writer Johnny Molloy, it's just another day at the office.

Happy New Year !

Happy New Year ! 01/01/2004 03:18 AM
Well we all made it through another year here at ActiveNetwork and our entire staff would like to thank all our viewers for your continued support since our conception back in 1997. With all the additions over the years we think we have certainly come a long way since then.

happy new year!

happy new year! 01/01/2004 11:07 AM

I got to Madrid okay yesterday, but, in the end, I couldn't get the modem connection to work properly... and in truth I didn't spend that much time with it (I fixed that a few minutes ago problems with a DHCP connection that required some fixed TCP/IP settings)...

... but now we're about to leave, so I'll be brief: Happy 2004 everyone!

PS: Digital life resumes tomorrow afternoon, after I get back to Dublin. :)

Happy mutants?

Happy mutants? 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz: Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body is a book about the genetics behind human oddities. It's the companion to a Channel 4 documentary of the same title that aired this summer. The author, Armand Marie Leroi, is a biologist and lecturer at Imperial College London. From a review in The Guardian a few months back:

"There are three things that lift this book above mere exploitation: the seriousness of Leroi's scientific investigations; the humane concern he manifests for the suffering other; and the sensitivity of his aesthetic appreciation of the wonders of nature. "Beautiful" is a term frequently used to describe some bottled monster. This aesthetic appreciation extends to previous writers on the subject. He describes an account of the progress of a deer embryo by the 17th-century natural philosopher William Harvey (more famous for his discovery of the circulation of the blood) as "one of the loveliest descriptions of a mammalian foetus ever written".

I'll be in the UK next week and I'm definitely going to pick up a copy! Link

Apple happy with IBM

Apple happy with IBM 11/06/2003 09:59 AM
Steve Jobs said yesterday that the latest version of Mac OS X, Panther, could easily run on Intel chips, but Apple has little interest in changing architectures. "It's perfectly technically feasible to port Panther to any processor," said Jobs, "We have all the options in the world, but the PowerPC road map looks very strong." ZDNet reports that Jobs also stated that Apple feels that IBM's line of PowerPC processors are "quite competitive" with other...

happy pencil

happy pencil 07/07/2004 09:27 AM
happy pencil [note: flash, safe for work, portfolio]

Ghee Happy

Ghee Happy 04/13/2005 01:36 AM
Xeni Jardin:
This lovely, quirky children's book of Hindu gods was created by Pixar animator Sanjay Patel in his spare time. Link (Thanks, Manish Vij)

Happy New Worm

Happy New Worm 01/02/2004 03:42 PM
ZDNet Jan 2 2004 3:27PM ET
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Why starving makes you live longer

Why starving makes you live longer 01/02/2004 07:11 AM
MIT researchers have gained insight into why sever calorie-restriction in a wide variety of organisms leads to life-extension.

"These findings provide a simple model for activation of Sir2 and extension of life span by calorie restriction," the authors write. "Our findings suggest that the NAD/NADH ratio can serve a critical regulatory function, determining the life span of yeast mother cells. A reduction in this nucleotide activates Sir2 to extend the life span in calorie restriction."

In previous research, Guarente found that rather than a slower metabolism leading to a slower rate of respiration, it turns out that respiration in yeast cells under calorie restriction goes up, not down. "A high respiration rate is intimately connected with calorie restriction in yeast," he said. "A high respiration rate activates SIR2. When respiration goes up, NADH goes down and SIR2 goes up. When SIR2 goes up, longevity happens."

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Dentsply Makes Investors Smile

Dentsply Makes Investors Smile 07/29/2004 01:53 PM
The dental-supply company continues reporting solid profit and earnings growth.

$5 Upgrade Makes Hard Drives Faster,
Longer Lived

$5 Upgrade Makes Hard Drives Faster,
Longer Lived 05/17/2004 10:21 AM
Looks like Serial ATA is bringing even more benefits of SCSI technology to we consumers, namely a new industry-standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology that we'll first get a taste of in Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.7. What makes NCQ drives so interesting are their ability to more efficiently cache requests...

If the thought of something makes me
giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am
to assume that I am not allowed to do
it.

If the thought of something makes me
giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am
to assume that I am not allowed to do
it. 02/17/2004 08:47 AM
The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army including:
* Not allowed to operate a business out of the barracks.
* Especially not a pornographic movie studio.
* Not even if they *are* 'especially patriotic films'

Mozilla makes Japanese push

Mozilla makes Japanese push 08/18/2004 02:44 PM
A new Japanese unit will promote and develop local versions of the Firefox browser and other Net software.

Japanese youth makes threat via Internet

Japanese youth makes threat via Internet 05/08/2004 11:48 AM
Big News Network May 8 2004 2:40PM GMT

Japanese Carrier Makes Cell Phone Wallet
(AP)

Japanese Carrier Makes Cell Phone Wallet
(AP) 07/21/2004 06:41 PM
AP - As it is, you don't leave home without it. In a world of cashless payment, why not simply make your cell phone a wallet? Japan has long been phasing out the hassle of coins and bills with microchip-laden "smart cards," which let people make electronic payments for everything from lunch to the daily commute.

Online Shopping Makes New York a
Cardboard Jungle

Online Shopping Makes New York a
Cardboard Jungle 04/05/2005 07:42 PM
FreshDirect has become the online grocery service that many New Yorkers have grown to love � and hate.

Family Emotions Raw at Sept. 11 Hearing
in New York (Reuters)

Family Emotions Raw at Sept. 11 Hearing
in New York (Reuters) 05/19/2004 02:56 PM
Reuters - Testimony on Wednesday before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks showed how raw emotions remain and how frustrated some family members feel about efforts to determine how their loved ones died.

How to live longer

How to live longer 11/13/2003 03:57 PM
Extending your life, how to age well. The Seattle Times is running a week long series of articles on how to extend your life. One of the most interesting ideas is calorie restrictive diets. The basic idea is that you consume approximately 30% less calories than you need, and you will live a 30% longer lifespan. The Calorie Restriction Society website can answer any questions you have. Of course any plan that has problems like "Getting used to looking gaunt" and "How do I stop waking up from hunger" seems a little iffy to me.

Smiling makes you happy

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