Links For A Sunday Morning

• Open Your Mouth And You Are Dead
  The freediving world championships occur at the outer limits of competitive risk. During the 2011 event, held off the coast of Greece, more than 130 athletes assembled to swim hundreds of feet straight down on a single breath-without (they hoped) passing out, freaking out, or drowning. James Nestor reports on the amazingly fit, unquestionably brave, and possibly crazy people who line up for the ultimate plunge.
• What makes a perfect spy tick?
• Trashed
  How did a popular, handsome college freshman end up buried in a Bucks County landfill? A tale of a baffling death, Joyce Carol Oates, and the secret society that may have cracked the case.
• Quanitta Underwood - A Contender for Olympic Gold and a Survivor
  The story of Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta Underwood, who was sexually abused by her father as a child.
• Adele: One and Only
  The newly minted Grammy winner's lows and highs-from throat surgery and heartbreak to the biggest-selling album of last year.
• The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever
  For years scientists have been able to change the emotional tone of a memory by administering certain drugs just before asking people to recall the event in detail. New research suggests that they'll be able to target and erase specific memories altogether.
• Greatest Simpsons Cameos From First 500 Episodes
• White House Code Names
  A POTUS's Secret Service nickname is chosen with care. Its meaning is open to interpretation.
• How Companies Learn Your Secrets
  Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information - like when you're going to have a baby.
• Genome Sequencing's Affordable, and Frightful, Future
  Genome sequencing is becoming affordable-which could lead to some very scary self-discovery.
• At the Blackjack Ball, Card Counter Dr. Edward Thorp Is King
  Why was a math professor pushing 80 the top draw at an ultrasecret blackjack ball? A look into the rise of a card-counting mastermind.
• How Interval Training Can Improve Health
  Short, intense bursts of exercise, followed by brief periods of rest, produced significant benefits for the heart and overall health.
• Don't Understand Indian Food? They'll Break It Down
  Borrowing the assembly-line format and chipper style of chains like Subway, owners of Indian restaurants plan to make dals, curries and flatbreads into fast food.
• Did You Hear We Got Osama?
  Do people consume news just to entertain themselves?
• Why not make Arnab Goswami Prime Minister?

  He is the only person I know who can be more outraged than outrage itself.
  He can extract outrage from a dead cockroach. "Who is responsible for the mysterious death of this innocent cockroach, Mr Prime Minister? The nation needs to know. Was the cockroach really a member of the Indian Mujahideen, as is being claimed by intelligence agencies, or was he another loyal follower of my TV show who spontaneously combusted in uncontrollable outrage?"

  Haha!
• Pictures - Rising Protests in China
• 6 rules of modern poster design
  :)
• Redesigning the Windows Logo
  Windows 8 has a new logo.
• Did Police Trawl Gaming Site for Sticky Bomb Info?
  Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta had spent "hours" carrying out research into sticky bombs, and that printouts were distributed afterwards to explain how they work. But instead of describing the bomb used in Monday's attack, the printouts looked a lot like the instructions for an online game, even saying how much damage sticky bombs could do "to the player."
  The report noted that the language of the police printout had actually been borrowed from an Internet game called "Terraria."
  Feel safer now?
• Dogs Diving Underwater Are Terrifying And Bewitching
  Wow!
• Short term mobile phone storage for NYC students
  Interesting.
• Shekhar Kapur Announces Qyuki: A Social Network For Stories
• Samsung's super-sized Galaxy Note changed my life
  Funny review.
• A Single Man: One Chinese Bachelor's Search for Love
• The French Government Wants To Tone My Vagina
  Inside my amazing and embarrassing postnatal "perineal re-education" class, paid for by la France.
• Winning American Idol: try to be last
  If you are appearing on American Idol or the X-Factor, try to be one of the last to sing. That's the conclusion from a new paper presented at a University of Westminster seminar today. Lionel Page and Katie Page look at an important topic - the evaluation of a sequential order of performances.
  Also - Last Shall Be First in Idol Economics
• Pictures - World Press Photo Contest 2012
• A nazm on Jagjit Singh by Gulzar
• The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012
  Couple of Indian companies on the list.
• Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage
  When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
  He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings "loaner" devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to the Internet only through an encrypted, password-protected channel, and copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive. He never types in a password directly, because, he said, "the Chinese are very good at installing key-logging software on your laptop."
• 100,000 Scovilles - Naga Chilli Vodka
  We filled a carboy with vodka, and into it we poured so many Naga Jolokia chillies that there was nothing but darkness in that carboy, nothing but darkness. We left the chillies to infuse and impart their flavour, colour and deathly fire into the vodka, and we've bottled the result. We are sorry. We are truly sorry.
  This stuff smells like pure evil, like the very blood of Satan himself. Such a pungent nose of chilli, it makes your eyes water just sniffing it.
• Pictures - Valentine's Day 2012
• 12 Hand-Written Love Letters From Famous People, From Henry VIII To Michael Jordan
• How Google Created Its Epic(-ish) Valentine's Day Doodle
• How to Say I Love You
  In 100 different ways :)
• For the love of songs!
  Nice collection of romantic Hindi movie songs.
• Comic - Valentine Dilemma
• TEDxPhoenix - Kelli Anderson - Disruptive Wonder for a Change
  Kelli believes that the world is full of order that doesn't necessarily deserve our respect, and in her TEDxPhoenix 11.11.11 TEDxTalk, Kelli inspires us to change the world around us by rejecting normal order, messing things up, and causing millions of teeny-tiny disruptions to whatever is sitting in front of you.
• Butt Cleavage Dress
  Exactly what it says.
• Gumroad: Sell digital goods with a link, no storefront needed
• Pictures - Japan earthquake and tsunami: See how the country has rebuilt in 11 months
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - ?, Ekk Deewana Tha and Married To America.

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