Life and stuff

The Boston Globe has a very nice Guide to Napping, complete with hints on what to do to nap faster and how long you should nap if you want to be more alert vs. gaining better memory retention.

Scribd

And just like YouTube, there’s plenty of content with questionable legality. I didn’t even have to try to find it; copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Ender’s Game stared me straight in the face once I started browsing the fiction section.

We live in a disposable society

Free Rice: Play a vocab game, and advertisers will donate 20 grains of rice per correct answer (through the UN) to help feed the hungry. Kind of like the Hunger Site which gives free food for clicking a button, though I think I’ll remember the Free Rice site more just to keep my vocab in shape.

And yes, I realize its far from a cure-all. In some cases, its the distribution system rather than the lack of food thats the problem. Still, there are plenty of worse ideas out there, and you get to train your brain while you’re at it.

stockharketslive.com has a post with some pictures of a job fair in China. All I can really say is glad I’m not hunting for a position over there. They probably don’t even have enough swag for 1/4 of the people.