October 2009
3 posts
Obama signs bill that kills DOD... →
NSPS employees to go back to General Schedule; unions laud effort
White House Site Goes Open Source →
The Obama Administration said Oct. 24 it has relaunched Whitehouse.gov using the Drupal open-source content management platform. Founded and developed by a 2-year-old company named Acquia that touts the software as “social publishing,” Drupal marks a transition for the White House site from running on proprietary software to being an open-source site.
Pay-for-Performance Program Gets the Boot →
Christmas came early for some federal employees and their unions Wednesday as lawmakers delivered one of the biggest items on their wish list, repealing a controversial pay-for-performance program.
September 2009
2 posts
Trust, but let Google verify: Companies join... →
Top 10 agencies on Twitter -- Federal Computer... →
August 2009
23 posts
What Is Broadband? FCC Doesn't Know →
Stephen Colbert Treadmill Heads to ISS →
Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't... →
“The metaphor that men and women are from different planets should be jettisoned and replaced with a more accurate one,” Palomares writes in his article. “Men and women are from different blocks in the same neighborhood, and they tend to move often.”
More Obesity Blues: Obese People Are At Greater... →
IRS launches YouTube, iTunes sites -- Federal... →
Google Fashioning PubSubHubbub as RSS on Steroids →
DOD said likely to adopt limited social networking... →
The tools may be used on military-controlled networks, Navy CIO Carey says
Buzzup - FriendFeed Alternative Streamy... →
Pic: Space Shuttle Discovery on Launch Pad 39A -... →
Lightning makes a dramatic background and slows the rollout of space shuttle Discovery to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 4, 2009. First motion of the shuttle out of the Vehicle Assembly Building was at 2:07 a.m. ET. Credit: NASA/Justin Dernier
Sedentary Lives Can Be Deadly: Physical Inactivity... →
Facebook buys social media aggregator FriendFeed →
(AP) — Facebook has purchased FriendFeed, a Web service that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites.
How Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video Was Restored,... →
Astronaut sends Tweets from space -- Federal... →
DOD wrestles with Web 2.0 -- Federal Computer Week →
Departmentwide social media review under way
Men who do the housework are more likely to get... →
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Intel Launches Facebook App to Share PC Power for... →
Female Cats Are Right-Pawed, Males Are Lefties:... →
Putty in their paws: Why we do what cats want -... →
Our relationship is based on us giving and them taking — kind of like a bad boyfriend. And yet, we adore, feed and house them, and we constantly try to please them in a hopelessly co-dependent kind of way. What does that say about us?
How Marijuana Causes Memory Deficits →
Memory loss associated with marijuana use is caused by the drug’s interference with the brain’s natural protein synthesis machinery, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience.
For Abused Women, Leaving Is A Complex And... →
Just Expecting A Tasty Food Activates Brain Reward... →
“Little is known regarding how palatable foods affect the brain, but it seems that especially tasty foods elicit brain responses similar to those elicited by drugs of abuse such as cocaine and nicotine, pointing to a general involvement of the brain’s “reward” system.”
Why Anorexic Patients Cling To Their Eating... →
DOD may ban Twitter, Facebook, other social media... →
July 2009
9 posts
Tapping cell phones | Spyware | Mobile Phones |... →
USGS Release: Groundwater Availability Detailed in... →
E-mail lives, but do we need it? -- Federal... →
Social media: Threat or revolution? -- Federal... →
Identify Your Relationship Needs →
You already know that ‘needs’ are basic requirements that must be fulfilled if you are to feel happy in life. If your needs are not met, then you tend to spend your time feeling unsatisfied and doing everything you can to get them met, either directly or indirectly. If your key needs are not being met in a relationship you will never have a stable or truly ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? →
So many people get stuck in a relationship they know, at a gut level, is never really going to satisfy them. Many years down the line, they give up leaving a pile of wreckage in their wake.
Being Overweight Or Obese In Mid-life Linked To... →
Men Agree Who's Hot, Women Don't | LiveScience →
How long has this been true??
What men want: Despite another recent study that found modern men are more interested in intelligent, educated women than in decades past, in the new study men tended to base their attractiveness ratings on women’s physical features, giving stellar marks to those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who...
Yahoo to build data center near Buffalo -... →
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. plans to open an East Coast regional data center near Buffalo.
June 2009
10 posts
Britain to establish new cybersecurity office --... →
“The British government, in a move paralleling the Obama administration’s recent commitment to cybersecurity, said Thursday it is establishing a new Office of Cyber Security (OCS), as part of a broader strategy dedicated to protecting Britain’s information technology infrastructure.”
Cyber Command: Observers worry about unintended... →
HUYEN KHONG TU . CHINA →
Ancient Hanging Temple
The Healing Power Of Prayer? →
Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new Brandeis University research in the Journal of Religion this month shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer—the prayer of strangers...
Earth Science World Image Bank →
The Cat - A Short History of the Domestication of... →
Parkinson's Patients Go to Wii-hab | LiveScience →
Group Highlights 10 Worst Internet Bills →
“From coast-to-coast, state legislatures are proposing bills that possibly violate federal law or create new ways to single out the Internet for discriminatory treatment or taxation.”
“Men may not see their flirtations with an attractive woman as threatening to the...”
– Men And Women Are Programmed Differently When It Comes To Temptation
Girls Get Math: It's Culture That's Skewed |... →
April 2009
1 post
For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious... →
March 2009
37 posts
KSEE 24 EXCLUSIVE: New hockey team to play in... →
“The new team is called the Fresno Monsters….”
Do Animals Enjoy Sex? | LiveScience →