June 2003

Mandarin Speakers use Both Sides of their Brain

Dr Sophie Scott and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust carried out brain scans on a group of Mandarin and English speakers. They found that the left temporal lobe, which is located by the left temple, becomes active when English speakers hear English, but both the left and right temporal lobes become active when they hear [...]

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iPhoto Buddy

OSXFAQ Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day for June 27, 2003: iPhoto Buddy is a small utility that allows you to use more than one photo Library with Apple’s iPhoto 2.0.

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Monsoon Wedding

Watched the DVD of Monsoon Wedding over the weekend. This was a vibrant, luscious movie about the loves of four or five couples during the 4 days of a magnificent Punjabi wedding. On a background of heat and rainstorms in Delhi a tangled plot arose or relationships and secrets. A very enjoyable movie.

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NZ Restaurant Reviews

Reviews of over 1500 restuarants: http://www.dineout.co.nz. Has some search capabilities. Would be improved with the ability to zero in on a location without the need to use it as a search term each time.

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Web Surfers Impatient

Most surfers are not prepared to spend more than a minute on a web page and are unlikely to spend long searching for what they want. [BBC Tech News] People make instantaneous judgements about whether to stay on a site, and if a site doesn’t give the right impression users will bypass it, said Dr [...]

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Solar Plane Destroyed

An experimental solar-powered aircraft that set an altitude mark of 96,000 feet plunges into the Pacific. [BBC Tech News] Current to power its 14 propeller motors and onboard electronics was generated by high-efficiency solar cells spread across the upper surface of the long wing. When it crashed, Helios was testing an experimental, renewable fuel-cell system [...]

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