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links for 2008-05-29

• CogDogRoo » Dominoe 50 Ways
  Evaluation of various web applications for creating screencast/slidecasts
  (tags: screencast slidecast presentations)
• Spoonflower Custom Fabric
  How to print custom fabric using Spoonflower.com.
  (tags: custom_fabric, textiles, design, fabric)

links for 2008-05-24

• Liferay - Enterprise Open Source Portal
  Another CMS worth checking out.
  (tags: cms, content_management)

links for 2008-05-22

• Spoonflower
  Custom fabric printing for the crafty set. (May as well bookmark my own site, no?)
  (tags: custom_fabric, fabric, design, diy, fabric_printing, craftystuff, crafts)

links for 2008-05-21

• Scalable Funding: Can Venture Capital Be More Like Amazon EC2?
  Interesting general point about funding start-ups. There's at least one other "con" in addition to the obstacles he names.
  (tags: startup venture funding entrepreneurdom)

Smarter isn't better

The NYT reports: Research suggests being smart can be unhealthy for an animal in an article titled Smarter Isn’t Better.

It turns out that from an evolutionary standpoint being smarter can work against you. In the case of fruit flies it actually leads to a shorter rather than a longer life.

I suppose this explains why it's natural to want to hit people from Mensa over the head with a baseball bat.