too good to be true ?

Suppose these guys are right ...
Suppose they get the funding (Bill, this is were your truckloads of money would come in handy) ...
Suppose it turns out to work ...

Just imagine the revolution!

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

intercrastination

We all know procrastination i.e. when you start pushing your tasks forward and end up doing little or nothing.

Over at Lifehacker a reader popped the question about a similar phenomena: procrastinating your spare time in between to tasks or parts of a task.
(Like taking a small sanitary break and ending up reading the entire newspaper or more familiar: just checking your mail and finishing your evening still behind the screen reading all wonders of the internets.)

As this is a procrastination alike issue but then in between tasks the proposed term is "inter-crastination".

For those curious about the relation to the image : "Thief Of Time" should suffice.

tux mania

Get your children to work (or your inner child) and head over to this site.
After first admiring the wonderful history of Tux, you can find a DIY cut out version here.

Download, print, cut out and start getting messy with the glue.

for the more advanced crafts(wo)men among us, there is also the Free Penguin Project, complete with downloadable Tux sewing patterns.

update : forgot to check the links, it seems http://www.premiumink.com/penguin/ no longer exists so you' ll have to do with the more advanced sewing version.

oops we did it again

Surprise, surprise!

We are getting used to the written press lagging severely versus the internets, but Time magazine manages to get it entirely too late.
They probably discovered half of their readers fled to the online world and decided to go out an find out why they went there.

Well, they found out and now proudly announce it.

simple project management

I wish all those project owners would take a little time to read this one through.
Although no shocking new ideas come up, it contains a clear an concise explanation on how to run a project and not run it into the ground from step one.


An excerpt about communication :

Being a good, clear and consistent communicator is the one thing that will give you the most bang for your buck when it comes to project management.
Give weekly updates and make sure everyone knows what they’re supposed to be doing at all times.
Make yourself available for questions and concerns.
By simply taking the time to communicate well and on a regular basis you’ve one half the battle.

(via Lifehacker, image a shameless rip from some project software site)

photolicious

Two colleagues of mine have a talent for photography.
Both have their own stile and techniques :
Gerard Maas & Marion Kahane
Bonus points for those who find the third colleague.

amazed ?

Frequently people do get really upset about other peoples actions, crying in outrage over the injustice done to them in person or to society as a whole.
Next thing we know it appears like everybody clean forgot what happened and the great perpetrator is reintroduced to his or her previous position in society (or even promoted).

While these are the same people that decide this reintroduction is the most normal of things, they still seem to find a way to be amazed about this reintroduction happening at all.
On the one hand they question the lack of punishment or justice served, yet they themselves are the driving factor behind this reintegration.

I guess this is part of what makes people people : being blatantly inconsequent, which means there is still hope for me ...