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2008-10-11T00:00:00-05:00

Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders
"After a group discussion, those who scored highest on the power dimension of narcissism again showed the most desire to lead the group discussion, rated themselves as leaders, and were viewed by other group members as the leaders. This study went further, though, by seeing how well the narcissists performed as leaders. Researchers looked at the lists, prepared by each individual and group, of the 15 items that they thought would help them survive. They compared their lists to one prepared by an expert who has taught survival skills to the U.S military. Results showed that narcissists did no better than others on selecting the items that would best help them survive. In addition, groups that overall scored highest on narcissism did no better than other groups on the task."

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2008-10-10T11:02:04Z

Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders

"After a group discussion, those who scored highest on the power dimension of narcissism again showed the most desire to lead the group discussion, rated themselves as leaders, and were viewed by other group members as the leaders. This study went further, though, by seeing how well the narcissists performed as leaders. Researchers looked at the lists, prepared by each individual and group, of the 15 items that they thought would help them survive. They compared their lists to one prepared by an expert who has taught survival skills to the U.S military. Results showed that narcissists did no better than others on selecting the items that would best help them survive. In addition, groups that overall scored highest on narcissism did no better than other groups on the task."

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M A X K E R N I N G

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Smoke Photography and Smoke Art | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of: Part 2 | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

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2008-10-10T00:00:00-05:00

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2008-10-08T00:00:00-05:00

Seth's Blog: Nine steps to Powerpoint magic
"Nine steps to Powerpoint magic Perhaps you've experienced it. You do a presentation and it works. It works! That's the reason we keep coming back for more, that's why so many of us spend more time building and giving presentations than almost anything else we do."

links for 2008-10-07

2008-10-07T11:01:33Z

Seth's Blog: Nine steps to Powerpoint magic

"Nine steps to Powerpoint magic Perhaps you've experienced it. You do a presentation and it works. It works! That's the reason we keep coming back for more, that's why so many of us spend more time building and giving presentations than almost anything else we do."

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Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

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2008-10-07T00:00:00-05:00

Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

links for 2008-10-05

2008-10-05T11:01:58Z

Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online

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TIME: America By The Numbers - Where We Live

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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine

"Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years. So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before? Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools."

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Virtual Water - a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations

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Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses

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Data Visualization and Infographics | Graphics, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

"The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. To convey ideas effectively, both aesthetic form and functionality need to go hand in hand, providing insights into a rather sparse and complex data set by communicating its key-aspects in a more intuitive way. Yet designers often tend to discard the balance between design and function, creating gorgeous data visualizations which fail to serve its main purpose — communicate information. In both print and web design infographics — visual representations of information, data or knowledge — are often used to support information, strengthen it and present it within a provoking and sensitive context, depending on designer’s creativity. This article presents some spectacular data visualizations and infographics which manage to combine a strong vi

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2008-10-05T00:00:00-05:00

xkcd - A Webcomic - Height
Data Visualization and Infographics | Graphics, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
"The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. To convey ideas effectively, both aesthetic form and functionality need to go hand in hand, providing insights into a rather sparse and complex data set by communicating its key-aspects in a more intuitive way. Yet designers often tend to discard the balance between design and function, creating gorgeous data visualizations which fail to serve its main purpose — communicate information. In both print and web design infographics — visual representations of information, data or knowledge — are often used to support information, strengthen it and present it within a provoking and sensitive context, depending on designer’s creativity. This article presents some spectacular data visualizations and infographics which manage to combine a strong vi
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses
Virtual Water - a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine
"Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years. So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before? Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools."
TIME: America By The Numbers - Where We Live
Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online

links for 2008-10-04

2008-10-04T11:02:18Z

xkcd - A Webcomic - Height

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MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL

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2008-10-04T00:00:00-05:00

MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL

links for 2008-10-02

2008-10-02T11:01:07Z

No more NDA. Yahoo!

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Where is Your Username registered

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Espresso Pumpkin Pie (INeedCoffee.com)

"I always get a craving for pumpkin pie as soon as the first leaves start turning colors or the first crisp autumn breeze turns my cheeks red. This year, I took my old pumpkin pie recipe and expanded upon it and improved it by adding espresso. It’s a simple recipe using canned pumpkin. The purist bakers among the crowd can modify a ‘from scratch’ pumpkin pie recipe accordingly, if they have the patience to fool around with whole pumpkins, but this recipe is for the majority of people who want the pie minus the fuss."

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Alex's Worst Cup of Coffee Ever (INeedCoffee.com)

"I apologize to all who want to hear more hardcore tales from addiction’s depths. As far as addicts go, we the coffee junkies rate pretty low on the drama scale – our drug of choice is legal, widely available, and potentially inexpensive. I’m at peace with my coffee habit, even if it drives me to some desperate lengths at times. The pleasure I derive from the ritual of drinking good coffee outweighs the misery of the occasional greusome brew."

(tags: coffee addiction story via:mento.info)

Links for 2008-10-01 [del.icio.us]

2008-10-02T00:00:00-05:00

Nascent: The Future Is A Foreign Country
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk
""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian. "Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.""
Alex's Worst Cup of Coffee Ever (INeedCoffee.com)
"I apologize to all who want to hear more hardcore tales from addiction’s depths. As far as addicts go, we the coffee junkies rate pretty low on the drama scale – our drug of choice is legal, widely available, and potentially inexpensive. I’m at peace with my coffee habit, even if it drives me to some desperate lengths at times. The pleasure I derive from the ritual of drinking good coffee outweighs the misery of the occasional greusome brew."
Espresso Pumpkin Pie (INeedCoffee.com)
"I always get a craving for pumpkin pie as soon as the first leaves start turning colors or the first crisp autumn breeze turns my cheeks red. This year, I took my old pumpkin pie recipe and expanded upon it and improved it by adding espresso. It’s a simple recipe using canned pumpkin. The purist bakers among the crowd can modify a ‘from scratch’ pumpkin pie recipe accordingly, if they have the patience to fool around with whole pumpkins, but this recipe is for the majority of people who want the pie minus the fuss."
Where is Your Username registered
No more NDA. Yahoo!

links for 2008-10-01

2008-10-01T11:00:43Z

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk

""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian. "Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.""

(tags: stallman cloudcomputing web2.0 internet via:mento.info)
Nascent: The Future Is A Foreign Country

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Purity

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IBM releasing iNotes for iPhone | Apple - CNET News

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Subprime crisis impact timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: subprime economic finance crisis history via:mento.info)
clusterstock.com

"Welcome to Clusterstock! We're yet another site focused on the financial markets. We offer proprietary and third-party analysis, financial models, news, commentary, and aggregation. We're edited by Henry Blodget (yes that Henry Blodget). Henry is a former top-ranked Wall Street stock analyst who was later keelhauled by Eliot Spitzer (yes, that Eliot Spitzer). We're in beta now, which means we still suck. We're working hard, though, and we hope to get better fast. Here's some of what you can find on Clusterstock already: * Detailed coverage of some of the hottest stocks in the market, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Research in Motion. Our coverage includes proprietary and third-party analysis, financial models, smart web information sources, and real-time news. * Detailed coverage of the US stock market and economy. * Simple economy and earnings calendars. And here's what's coming soon: * More sectors * More markets * More stocks We don't

(tags: finance economics analysis stock via:mento.info)
The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > A Tally of Federal Rescues

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Where will the money come from? - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

"First, a real-world example, the rescue of Wachovia. The FDIC got Citi to take over Wachovia’s assets and liabilities with a deal under which the feds limit the losses — they will cover any losses on mortgage paper over $42 billion — in return, basically, for receiving a share of ownership, in the form of warrants and preferred stock. No actual money changed hands, which illustrates a fundamental principle: recapitalization doesn’t mean laying out real money, at least initially — it just means having taxpayers take on some of the risk."

(tags: economics financecrisis recapitalization via:mento.info)
PHD Comics: The Economic Meltdown

(tags: financialcrisis economics humor via:mento.info)
Useful Chemistry: Webinar on Ugi Reaction Optimization Available

"The webinar I gave for Mettler-Toledo on Sept 23, 2008 is now available here as a Flash presentation. It is 19 minutes and covers the Optimization of the Ugi reaction using parallel synthesis and automated liquid handling. The related paper is currently available from Nature Precedings. (authors: Jean-Claude Bradley, Khalid Mirza, Kevin Owens, Tom Osborne & Antony Williams) Thanks to Andrew Lang for the slide with the 3D plot showing the reaction yield space. This is my first time using Camtasia 5 - it lets you zoom into areas of the screen that are under discussion. I think that is pretty handy for screencasts involving web pages, where there can be a lot of small text."

(tags: chemistry synthesis ugireaction optimization presentation via:mento.info)

links for 2008-09-30

2008-09-30T11:01:08Z

IBM Lotus Connections - Arbeiten Sie mit Personen zusammen, die die gleichen Zuständigkeiten und Fachkenntnisse haben. - Deutschland

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links for 2008-09-29

2008-09-29T11:02:11Z

tantek wiki - Welcome to Tantek's public PBwiki

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iPhone LOMO

…now the iphone just needs to have some form of added color processing and we have ourselves an iLOMO!

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2008-09-28T11:01:45Z

Eiswoog - MTB-News.de Tour- und Spotguide

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Morph Faces and Celebrities Online - MorphThing

"MorphThing combines two faces into one. It's fun, free, and no download is required!"

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links for 2008-09-27

2008-09-27T11:00:46Z