We love magazines. Because we publish one, we don't get to spend a lot of time writing about our peers. But our passion for magazines runs as deep as it does for music, movies, and yes, even beer.

New discoveries into how the body clock works could provide clues to help combat jet lag, research suggests. A University of Manchester team studied special cells which they say play an important role in regulating a person's body clock.

After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard. Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk. I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done.

Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the ’00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about what was significant as well as beautifully ...

One of the interesting aspects of the Go language is interface objects. In Go, the word interface is overloaded to mean several different things. Every type has an interface, which is the set of methods defined for that type. This bit of code defines a struct type S with one field, and defines two methods for S.

Madcap Scottish brewing maestro Brew Dog, has launched the world's strongest beer to a volley of criticism from health chiefs. The 32% abv brew, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin (great name), takes over the mantle as the world's strongest beer from German concoction Schorschbraerm which weighs in at a measly 31% abv.

　東京地裁の証言台に立った男は、無念そうに顔をしかめた。がっちりとした体格に真面目そうな話ぶりは、とても罪を犯すような人間には見えない。あと３年で定年を迎えるはずだった野田一郎（５８歳、仮名）は、ファイル交換ソフト「ウィニー」に手を�

今(2009年11月)のネット上のトレンドといえば、Twitterかと思われます。近いうちにGoogle Waveがどうなるか、といったところですが、mixiなどのSNSに疲れた人たちや、新しいモノ好きがこぞってTwitter に流れているようです。実際僕もmixiの日記をあまり書かなくなっ�

这61个最好的免费软件是大家投票产生的~因为免费软件太多了~所以我们不得不采取这种形式得出结论~ 感恩节提醒我们做人要感恩，所以呢，我们也应该感谢这些免费软件的开发商。虽然感恩节已经过去，在这里还是要对你们说声谢谢！是你们让我们的电脑得到了�

｢好きなことをして、生きていくのは難しい｣とはよく言われることです。インターネット時代がやってきて、｢ついに好きなことをして生きていける時代が来た！｣と思わせる雰囲気が生じたものの、｢やはりそううまくいかなかった｣と感じている人も多�

Late guitar guru Hendrix, who topped the singles chart with the track in 1970, triumphed in a poll of musicians. The track - full title Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - edged past Guns N'Roses song Sweet Child O'Mine which finished second in the poll by musicians' website MusicRadar.com.

As with any project you start, gathering essential information upfront is not only beneficial to a successful deliverable but will also save you and your client plenty of headaches throughout the process and pave the way to a lasting and trusting relationship.

Fortune 500 companies are placed in a list compiled and published by Fortune magazine. These companies are ranked within the top 500 U.S. corporations by their gross revenue. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955. And since then, it has been the dream of most start-ups and established companies to be featured within this list.

How would you like to design a beautiful, colorful, stimulating website that is captivating, memorable, and allows you to let your creative juices flow without the need to worry too much about usability and best practices? In today’s web design market, it’s rare that such a project would present itself — unless you were asked to ...

Thanksgiving has come and gone and in many locales the frost and snow are settling in. It's that winter wonderland time of year again and we've rounded up some pictures to help celebrate it.

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits ...

すると拡張子「.boxer」ファイルが作られますので、それをダブルクリックでゲームができます。

If I had to choose only one site for inspiration in different design areas. These would be it. From what I could find till now, these ones are the most interesting and frequently updated blogs. Enjoy!

Time to whip CreativityDen back into shape! Starting off with some amazing logos. I don’t know what it is about identity and branding but I just can’t get enough of these logos. Everyone I see makes me want to boot up illustrator and start drawing. Unfortunately when staring at the screen for 10 minutes I realize the difficulty in ...

The right typeface can make all the difference to complete a stellar design concept. Many of the design templates on Inkd rely on creativity with type, but what might surprise you is that many of our designers utilize some of the 1000s of free fonts – quality free fonts – readily available online.

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009's Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "Festival of Sacrifice", commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering animals to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham's son, distributing the meat amongst family,

How would you like to design a beautiful, colorful, stimulating website that is captivating, memorable, and allows you to let your creative juices flow without the need to worry too much about usability and best practices? In today’s web design market, it’s rare that such a project would present itself — unless you were asked to ...

Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such as this one, Sealand. Photograph: Kim Gilmour/Alamy Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "

These days, website content is often generated dynamically. On a lot of websites, a single page (or script) is used to generate multiple pages of content on the website. For example, on a blog, you might have a single page named article.php that generates every article on your blog. Or perhaps you have a shop on which you have a single page named ...

It's one of the most "expected" BIG-BANG of Google this year and for year 2010 when its fully released. One of the reason why the Yahoo-Microsoft Tandem was once again stupefied and now scratching their heads.. "WOW GOOGLE BEAT US AGAIN?"

Phil Rabin of CBC Radio 3 has kindly written a guest post on his experience creating a fantastic Web interface for the station that uses Flash for audio, but a full HTML experience that maintains state from page to page.

@(Unverified) Just to make it clear, I love Top Gear, and I'm a subscriber, but the new series definitely has lost the old touch. Didn't really make myself clear in my first post. Last Sunday was better than the first episode in the series, but a long way behind series' of past.

PCアプリはもちろん、いまでは携帯電話にも計算機機能が付いており、暗算をする必要に迫られることはずいぶん少なくなってきましたが、ちょっとした豆知識と頭の体操に、とっておきの暗算ショートカット法はいかがでしょう？

FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that monitors everything from nasty falls to boxes being opened. Speed isn't good enough when you're shipping something like transplant supplies for emergency surgery or tissue samples. You also need to be perfectly sure that what you're sending hasn't been compromised for even a second ...

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

At GA-Experts, we also provide PPC Management services through our parent company Omega Digital Media, so we are continually looking at ways to improve the data that Google Analytics provides about a PPC campaign. With this in mind we have developed a new filter that shows exactly the Search Term (i.e. keywords that are searched on) rather than ...

There were a few articles kicking around yesterday touting a figure that ‘Lady Gaga earned $167 from Spotify for over a million plays’ - I think the story originated on TorrentFreak.

Bueno despues de tanto tiempo sin escribir nada por aquí, espero retomar el ritmo del blog ya que me he tomado unas vacaciones de el. Y como no ibamos a volver hablando de Snow Leopard el nuevo felino de Apple que como siempre nos deja tirado a los canarios, que tendremos que buscarnos la vida con las Apple Reseller para adquirirlo, y ya no os ...

Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless.

How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

"I should say it is the most complicated photograph I have ever made. It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year...

Writing this week about eating accessibility humble pie and using CSS attribute substring selectors, a comment by clever Craig Cook sent my imagination reeling.

I developed a plugin while working as a Rails Developer, CSVExportable, which was originally based off of some code from Bryan Helmkamp. CSVExportable was good, but it was an evolutionary design. As such, it was hodgepodged together with no since of organization. I decided to rewrite the plugin from scratch, and design it a little bit better this ...

Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is. Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.

At a recent stop on her "Going Rogue" book tour, Sarah Palin told Canadian comedian Mary Walsh that Canada should get rid of its public health care system.

After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard. Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.

I thought it would be a good idea to write an article on ways to promote your new web-based startup. I tend to get a lot of ideas for web-based businesses so it’s something I’m quite used to doing.

Suite au scandale Edvige, les parlementaires avaient décidé de s’intéresser aux fichiers policiers, et, devant la somme de problèmes recensés, proposé que la création de ces fichiers fassent désormais l’objet d’un débat parlementaire, et donc d’une loi.

Piques, galets, découpes… se multiplient : des « réponses silencieuses » à la précarité compilées par deux activistes. Nous les avons appelé les « anti-sites ». Ces excroissances architecturales, qui se multiplient depuis plusieurs années, forment un éventail de propositions concrètes, de réponses silencieuses (privées, ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Movie flops aren't just about losing money. Yes, big budgets that go bust are one consideration. But flops are also about lofty expectations dashed and high profiles brought low. They trigger embarrassing catcalls from the peanut gallery and a general whoever-thought-that-was-a-good-idea-in-the-first- ...

Typography is everywhere, from the web to the print industry. In fact, there’s a lot of talk about beautiful typography in web design, but let’s not forget about the print industry – this is where it all comes from.

What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they’ve arrived at the office? They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet. The meaning of the name of “Moma” is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it, we heard, but Moma’s mission is prominently displayed on its footer: &

In this tutorial we are going to create an awesome image gallery which leverages the latest CSS3 and jQuery techniques. The script will be able to scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.

As we move from the world of standard-definition to high-def, understanding hard disk speeds and the data requirements of video formats can prevent a lot of problems.

Apple deserves serious props for bringing the installed version of PHP up to 5.3 on Snow Leopard, but some projects *cough CakePHP* can’t yet handle the goodness.

A common problem programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a ...

“Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.”

One of the really cool things I like about Bing is its image search – you can search on something and keep scrolling forever without once hitting the annoying “next page >>” fail pattern.

Erstmalig in der Geschichte der Menschheit wird das klassische Muster der Wissensvermittlung auf den Kopf gestellt: Während Eltern, Lehrer und bisherige Meinungsführer in ihrer Rolle als Vermittler von Web-Wissen und digitaler Erfahrung versagen, übernehmen junge Menschen die Lehrerrolle.

作ったのはファンクラブ掲示板ジェネレーター。自分のファンが集まっているネット上の掲示板だ（もちろん嘘の）。プロスポーツの選手やアーティストでもない僕らでもファンクラブがいるみたいな気分を味わえる。 嬉しい半分、こういうのを作っている僕�

John Lynch, biógrafo de Simón Bolívar y de José de San Martín, reivindica la figura de los dos grandes héroes de la independencia. "Ejercieron un liderazgo desinteresado, sin esperanzas de obtener privilegios, ambos fueron modélicos"

Pues buscando buscando encontré un paquetón de repositorios para Arch. Creo que después de añadir estos repositorios, no tendremos problema en encontrar cualquier aplicación.

To kick off this WordPress SEO guide, I’m going to start by focusing on keyword research and how you can go about identifying the keyword phrases you need to target in your SEO campaign. Keyword research is a huge topic – in this post I cover the main concepts that you need to be aware of and provide pointers to some great tools that ...

The year is 1963. It’s November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.” Rapidly, everyone in America descends ...

RIYADH: Concerns about Dubai’s potentially crippling default on enormous debts to global creditors have rattled investor confidence across the oil-exporting Gulf region, prompting corporate issuers... Full Story

UK’s Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Will Lewis is becoming the company’s managing director for digital, and will head a new “entrepreneurial” division with 50 staff to lead the company’s search for new revenue streams. Lewis retains his editor-in-chief role across print and online, but Daily Telegraph deputy ...

Nov. 26: Britain's former Ambassador to Washington D.C. has told the Iraq war enquiry he thought Tony Blair agreed to go to war a year before the conflict began. ITV's Paul Davies reports.

そして、それらのチケットを精査する工数が開発チームの許容量を超えると、チケットは放置される。 こういう状況はもはや、アジャイルだろうがTiDDだろうがCMMIだろうが、手に負える状況ではない。

I love tests, I just cannot program without them anymore, especially with Symfony. And as I write a lot of them on a daily basis, the full test suite can take a very long time to be executed ; running a symfony test:all command before every granular commit suppose you have to wait sometimes more than 5, 10 minutes or more for the whole tests to ...

Photoshop is a magical tool for digital artists and photographers, and it rules the digital imaging world. It is not just a tool, though; Photoshop is a blank canvas that invites you to perform magic with your creativity. It gives you room to creatively manipulate photos and explore the artist in yourself.

Au Festival Européens des 4 Écrans (1), qui s’est tenu à Paris du 18 au 20 novembre 2009, j’ai participé à un atelier consacré aux “Coulisses de la création” d’un web-documentaire. Il était animé par Judith Rueff (2), l’une des fondatrices de l’agence multimédia Ligne 4, qui travaille à un ...

For research published earlier this year, physiologists at Nebraska Wesleyan University had distance-running members of the school’s track and field team sit on the ground, legs stretched before them, feet pressed firmly up against a box; then the runners, both men and women, bent forward, reaching as far as they could past their toes. This is ...

This is part 2 of the “jQuery From Scratch” series of tutorials. If you have not read part 1, you can have a quick read. This tutorial will deal with writing and executing functions in JavaScript.

One problem I run into pretty frequently when coding a site in to XHTML and CSS is making my footer dock to the bottom of the screen. It’s especially annoying if you have a page that’s short on content and the footer, which happens to be a different color that the body background doesn’t stay at the bottom of the browser window. ...

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

Undoubtedly by now you’ve heard about Tiger Woods’ car crash. Early reports had him in serious condition (which remember, is better than critical condition) after he apparently hit a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his home in his SUV. The latest reports say he has been released from the hospital and is “fine.” But I&#

San Francisco-based photographer Kerry Mansfield was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and photographed this series of self-portraits during her treatment. In her statement about the project, she writes:

　働きアリを「よく働くアリ」「ほとんど働かないアリ」に分けて、それぞれの集団（コロニー）を作り直しても、一定の割合で「働き者」「怠け者」に分かれることが北海道大学の長谷川英祐(えいすけ)准教授（進化生物学）らの研究でわかった。

iPhone development can be intimidating, especially to someone who’s unfamiliar with Macs, or the way iPhone apps work. But with currently more than 100,000 apps officially available from the App Store, it’s kind of hard for a developer to ignore the potential market the iPhone provides.

It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilised bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are embedded beneath the surface layers of the rock, suggesting that they were already present when the meteorite arrived, rather than being the result of subsequent ...

With New Moon likely to make yet another metric fuckload of money this weekend we need to find the bright side to the entire Twilight mania. There must be something good that comes from this awful Mormon fantasy that seems to have invaded our culture on every front. That something is the eventual movie version of Breaking Dawn.

One of the largest corporations on the planet, not to mention the world's largest beverage company, Coca-Cola is a brand unto itself. Selling one of the most popular drinks ever, Coca-Cola could easily rest of its laurels, but the company is constantly evolving and transforming itself.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

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El robot que creé yo, Lasty está pensado para mostrar la canción que estás escuchando a través de Last.fm, más tarde llegaremos a cómo se hace eso.

My father was, in many ways, a man of discipline, organisation and charisma - a regimental sergeant major no less. One of the very last men to be evacuated from Dunkirk, his third stripe was chalked on to his uniform by an officer when no more senior NCOs were left alive. Parachuted into Crete and Italy, both times under fire, he fought at Monte ...

Often called a revolution, Twitter is a very easy and cool way to communicate and promote your blog or service. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful code snippets to interact with Twitter in your web dev projects.

Can ants count? Not out loud they can't. Not the way you and I count. But an ingenious experiment conducted in the Sahara suggests maybe ants do count.

Fears of a dangerous new phase in the economic crisis swept around the globe yesterday as traders responded to the shock announcement that a debt-laden Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill.

Check out the Domain Superstar Top 100 Domaining Blogs / Domain Name Blogs list below. The default ranking is by Alexa ranking but each of the columns are sortable so you can sort by number of backlinks, number of Twitter followers, PageRank, Technorati Authority, and more!

Recently we've heard a lot of talk about interdisciplinarity, along with claims that traditional academic departments are limiting the ability of the modern university to meet the world's most daunting intellectual challenges. Will the disciplines soon be seen as anachronisms, holdovers from an outdated 20th-century model? In my view, efforts to ...

The move by state-owned Dubai World to delay paying some of its debt shook the markets in Europe on Thursday and those nerves spilled over into Asia. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei fell 3.2% to 9,081.52, its lowest level since July. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng was down 4.9% at 21,239.5.

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On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active.

This is very common request recently – How to import CSV file into SQL Server? How to load CSV file into SQL Server Database Table? How to load comma delimited file into SQL Server? Let us see the solution in quick steps.

The year is 1963. It’s November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.” Rapidly, everyone in America descends ...

本誌が今日（米国時間11/27）報じたように、Twitterの日本のパートナーであるDigital Garageが、日本だけの新しい課金方式をスタートさせる。そのやり方はきわめて単純で、日本のTwitterユーザはもうすぐ、フォロワーたちが自分のつぶやきを見ることを有料にでき�

Wasp Lisp is a small Scheme-like Lisp implementation developed by Scott Dunlop. It features a lightweight concurrency model (with similarities to Erlang and Termite).

I have been using the foundation of this script for the last few years to upload files – particularly imagery – and then quickly and easily resize or create multiple thumbnails of the file. The version I had been using only handled jpegs but I have now expanded it to handle transparent PNGs and GIFs – as well as opaque – ...

The day after Thanksgiving is the best day to find holiday bargains. But with so many stores offering deals, how—and where—do you start looking?

「しゃべったー」は、文字通りiPhoneにむかってしゃべってことがそのままつぶやき=tweetになるというiPhoneアプリ。

コードの長さは20cmで足りるのに2mもあるコードを使わなきゃいけないとか、引き出しの中でグチャグチャに絡まるコードをどうにかしたいという時には、このまとめ方をマスターすれば全て問題解決です。

Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and future impact on the industry.

One hypothesis is that having eyes on either side of such a wide 'hammer' allows the sharks to see better. But even this idea divides scientific opinion, as researchers argue over whether the hammerhead design makes it more or less difficult to see.

London, England (CNN) -- Coming up with brilliant, game-changing ideas is what makes the likes of Apple's Steve Jobs so successful, and now researchers say they have identified the five secrets to being a great innovator

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2010 is going to be an incredible year for marketing. Now, of course I don’t have a crystal ball (or do I…insert creepy music here) but the shift is unmistakable and can’t be ignored.

前回の記事でも書いたように、Pocket WiFi (D25HW) は購入・契約すると、すぐに使える状態になっている。１枚紙の「かんたんセットアップマニュアル」（基本編・ゲーム編の２種類）の通り、

First and foremost, know the benefits of converting your blog from Blogger to Wordpress. See if the benefits worth the conversion for your blog. If you’ve decided to convert your blog or go for Wordpress, signup to have one. If you host your own blog, install the Wordpress blog into a directory other than your existing blog through the ...

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.

「若者の海外旅行離れ」という話をよく聞く。それがホントなのかどうかは別の検証にまかせるとして*1、今日は別の視点から考えてみる。

「キン肉マン」のキン肉マン役や、北斗の拳の「ケンシロウ」役、名探偵コナンの「毛利小五郎」役で知られる声優の神谷明さんが関西ローカルのバラエティ番組「お笑いワイドショー　マルコポロリ!」に21日昼放送の番組に出演されました。（生放送ではな�

When David Cameron returned to London from this year’s Conservative Party Conference, what platform did his train depart from? Why did the engineers of the longest continuous-span suspension bridge in the world change the blueprints after construction started? Those were the easy questions. Now, try these for size. Agtaq gufnx mbvrp eselx ...

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Make your resume stand out by using a beautiful design that most people have never seen before. Here are some terrific resume ideas to inspire you. You might want to bookmark this article and come back to it when you’re updating your resume. Enjoy!

We're thankful that so many people have been willing to try out Google Wave in a host of different areas: personal, business, government, education and even not-for-profit. We've been glad to see positive responses, especially since we're still in a limited preview and not quite ready to give accounts to everyone who has requested one.

Sounds played as you sleep can reinforce memories, suggest Ken Paller and his colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. They asked people to memorise which images and their associated sounds – such as a picture of a cat and a miaow – were associated with a certain area on a computer screen and then to take a nap. They ...