links for 2007-10-12

By dmunger on October 12, 2007.

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That lap dancing study

I'll resist puns with this one, but Kate has a nice write-up
Cheap trainers still protect feet

Translation into American English: Expensive running shoes aren't worth the money
Being paid by the hour changes the way we think about time
Phishing Education Called Inadequate

The best approach seems to be a child's video game
Oppression and the psychology of the Burmese state

What living under a dictatorship does to your mental health
Visualizing the evolution of open-edited text

Some very cool graphics showing how a wikipedia page gets edited over time

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and i wonder why i get so many strange hits from oddly sexual google search queries...

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