Link Round Up

[ewt]

This has been overdue for a long while!

Silicone contaminants could drift north. Not yummy. What's in your hair gel?

Why Americans (and by extension most of us in the West) should eat more crap.

Exercises for back pain.

UK Abortion Law Change. Scary stuff. Also scary is the police stuff that I've lost the BBC link for.

Wonderful post on Attitude.

Pretty things!

Windbelt - could be a good thing. Non-turbine wind generator. Looks pretty easy to build, even. I wonder what it's like for noise? Probably not too bad.

Sleep bolsters emotional control. Could have told you that one. Has anyone studied the benefits of a short afternoon nap vs. staying awake all day?

I am tired of a) bra-top things with straps that fall down and b) not having enough vests to wear one every day (I get cold a lot at Trinity but when I am playing I get quite warm and need to be able to take most layers off). This seems an appropriate solution. Now to find a fair trade, organic equivalent. Where to find a racerback top with hidden shelf support that isn't made by 6-year-olds in Taiwan?

Kiva vs. MicroPlace - what's the difference?

Care and maintenance of rotary valves.

Humans failing sustainability audit. Knew that too.

Terabyte thumb drives, eventually.

OnOneMap has been very useful for finding possible places to live.

hairyears bought me a one of these for my birthday. pfy bought me a breadmaker. Happy ewt! UNK!

Useful account of what one person's experience of ADD is like. I think I might be forwarding this one to Student Services.

I have graduated from using Grotto Grips to using triangular pencils. I can write with these and not get sore. Unfortunately, the only place I have been able to find the pencils in an Actual Shop is as part of a set (of 2 pens, pencil and highlighter), available from ASDA. I use the pencils more than anything else, and keep losing them (leaving them behind at students' houses, for the most part). I do not need more highlighters or triangular pens at this point. Thanks to fjm I have found a website which stocks my pencils. YAY!

Abortion rates no different where abortion is illegal.

Woman with no legs is having a mermaid's tail made to help her swim. What it says on the tin. Sounds fascinating!

Citizens Required. Am I missing something here, by not having TeeVee?

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

On the windbelt -

“There’s not a huge amount of innovation being done for people making $2 to $4 per day,” Haas says. “Shawn’s work is definitely needed.”

Absolutely!

[spodlife]

Belated Happy Birthday!

The eat more crap article follows the same lines as having too clean a house can cause asthma (and now it turns out that certain aerosol spray cleaners can cause it too).

While I have a dog, at least she only sniffs poo, rather than eating it or rolling in it - yuck! I usually wash my hands before I prepare food, try to keep raw meat away from everything else in the fridge, and cook chicken until it's done, but otherwise I don't mind a little bit of dirt.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Where to find a racerback top with hidden shelf support that isn't made by 6-year-olds in Taiwan?

Have you looked at Title Nine Sports (http://www.titlenine.com/)? I don't know where their stuff is made, and I've only bought bras from them, but they make good things.

[balarza.livejournal.com]

Has anyone studied the benefits of a short afternoon nap vs. staying awake all day?

Looking at my family, my father and I (who tend to wake earlier and are the more anxious workaholics) absolutely require a short nap after lunch in order to cope with the rest of the day (the sleep and emotional control article definitely applies to me!). My mother and brother, on the other hand, can't stand sleeping during the day.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

The How To Start Your Own Country series is pretty fun -- worth it just for the national anthem. His book Yes Man is even better, though.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

ADD woman sounds just like me except for the interrupting. Hmm. Interesting.

Children are mainly exposed to E.Coli for building immunity through playing in the dirt. I wonder how E. Coli gets into soil - small animal shit, or does it just grow there better? I am a little worried that he doesn't mention playing in the dirt in that article.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought the non-mention of playing in dirt was weird, too.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Also, Dorothy Rowe notes that symptoms of ADHD and symptoms of fear are similar (http://www.dorothyrowe.com.au/index.php?u=Not_mad_or_bad.htm2).

I think she has a very good point, but whether my own behaviour/coping/focus/whatever patterns are learned or genetic or some combination of both, they are causing me problems and I find that the benefits of stimulant medication outweigh the risks, at least for now.

[403.livejournal.com]

The ADD article has some bits like-me, and some bits not. The conversation part is interesting, 'cause with my auditory processing issues, two or more people talking at once turns into a meaningless jumble of sound. But my natural pattern when IMing with another ADDer is to have branching conversations where we may cover two or more topics simultaneously.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

*nod*

That was the main difference for me, as well, although slightly different than your experience I think. I find that with lots of conversations I can hear all the words but I have trouble not getting distracted from the conversation I'm _trying_ to have by all the conversations other people are having. On IRC and in other text-based media this is not generally a problem.

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

Bread machine sounds fancy! I don't use mine very often because the controls are all in German and I'm nervous about blowing things up. If you find some nice recipes for yours I'd love to hear them!