These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:
More parents using txt language to make their child's name gr8 | the Daily Mail
It might not be every parent's idea of a "gr8" way to name a baby.But our growing habit of using text messages to communicate appears to be having an impact on what we call our children. Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora.
They bounce, are semi-buoyant, and males seem to not be able to get enough of them. They are breasts. In an odd way, the physics of breasts have become a huge factor and trend in the world of gaming; it?s quite interesting how this whole trend started.
World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem | ThinkZone
Using only elementary geometry, determine angle x. Provide a step-by-step proof. This is the hardest problem I have ever seen that is, in a sense, easy. It really can be done using only elementary geometry. This is not a trick question.
Newton Virus – Art virus for Mac | YouTube
Spice up your colleagues' day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.
Life's little mysteries | the Daily Mail
Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain these situations we encounter in everyday life.
Come back for more links tomorrow!!