Monday, October 15, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, October 15, 2012)

(1)- ARAB SPRING BREAK -- Last year, a UCLA math major, left his $9,000-a-month internship at a San Francisco financial firm to search out "real" life. He wound up fighting with Libyan rebels, where real came fast.

(2)- ALPHABETICAL SHAPE ORIGINS -- With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates what characters in the alphabet originally represented:

(3)- HOW HOT CAN IT GET? – Everybody knows about absolute zero, but how hot can it get? As you might be able to guess, there's a lot more room to go hotter than there is to go colder, but what’s the limit…?

(4)- CHARITY BEGINS AT – A Brazilian student, Catarina Migliorini, 20, is cooperating with an Australian filmmaker in order to auction off her virginity to the highest bidder to raise cash for impoverished families.

(5)- SMALLER FISH -- Warming temperatures could lead to smaller fish in the world's oceans. Scientists project the average maximum body size for the world's fish could decline by up to 24 percent by 2050.

(6)- MORE DICTIONARY TALK -- To ensure that American Heritage be notable, the publisher established a usage panel of distinguished writers and scholars, including veterans of the controversy over Webster’s Third:

(7)- WHY PAGINATE? -- Pagination is one of the worst design and usability sins on the Web. Pagination persists because splitting a single-page article into two pages yields twice as many opportunities to display ads.

(8)- SMALL TOWN THIEF -- The amount the feds claim she stole since 2006 was at least $30 million, or an average of $5 million a year—more than half of the municipality’s entire operating budget over that period.

(9)- FISH STORY -- How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean. In a host of undersea food chains, menhaden—also known as pogy and bunker—are a common denominator. They have been called the most important fish in the sea.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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