http://linkfilter.net Daily fresh links en-us http://linkfilter.net/images/newbutton.jpg http://linkfilter.net/ http://linkfilter.net/?id=149580 &nbsp; "Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years. &nbsp; &nbsp; The level of detail preserved in the fossils is amazing, said paleontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas and lead author of the study appearing Feb. 6 in Naturwissenschaften. “You go in with a microscope, and bingo! It’s fantastic.”" http://linkfilter.net/?id=149579 The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149578 There’s nothing worse than having bad breath and not knowing about it! &nbsp; &nbsp; There are certain foods that are guaranteed to cause bad breath. Most people are quite aware that eating foods such as curry, garlic (> the most horrible food to me, have to vomit!), onions or coffee before a meeting or function might be the kiss of death when it comes to social etiquette. &nbsp; &nbsp; You can try chewing gum, but you’ll have to chew for a long time because until that bad-breath-causing-food clears from your system (which can take up to 24 hours), you’ll be stuck with that bad breath. That’s unless you know which foods you can eat to mask the problem. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149577 People who own a cat are more likely to have a university degree than those with a pet dog, a study by Bristol University suggests. &nbsp; &nbsp; The study said longer hours, possibly associated with better qualified jobs, may make owning a dog impractical. &nbsp; &nbsp; It also found that UK pet ownership was much higher than previously thought. &nbsp; &nbsp; Cat and dog numbers were last estimated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal in 1989, which said there were 6.2 million and 6.4 million respectively in the UK. &nbsp; &nbsp; But according to Bristol's Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, the populations today are likely to be about 10.3 million and 10.5 million. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149576 The world is chock full of ear hurt that some people willingly refer to as music. The Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga, Conway Twitty; they all produce high quality records and 8-tracks for our enjoyment whether we like it or not. &nbsp; &nbsp; But music--even terrible music--has a stunning amount of power over our bodies. For instance science says music can... http://linkfilter.net/?id=149575 We would all love to live longer, so long as we can do it functionally and with all our faculties in place. There is much argument and many conflicting ideas on what allows people to live a long and healthy life. Despite this there is evidence of people living to an extraordinary age while smoking all their life, eating chocolate, drinking alcohol and all sorts of other contraindicated behaviors. &nbsp; &nbsp; This is a list not of centenarians (people who have reached the age of 100 years), but of supercentenarians, who are those that have reached the ripe old age of 110 years or more. supercentenarians represent only a small portion of those living over 100 years. Only 1 in 1000 centenarians reach the age of 110. Further, only 2 percent of supercentenarians live to see age 115. Currently there are a documented 76 female and 2 male supercentenarians. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149574 There are actually a lot more methods of individual expression today as compared to any other period within history. Whether you select blogs, forums, graffiti, tattoos or even just conventional creative platforms, it is always more fun if it involves a bit of risk. Money defacing is perhaps the most economical style of risky individual expression – and is as equally unlawful as graffiti. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149573 Besides the canonical Bristlecone Pine, there are many other organism on earth that will outlive you. Photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world to find and photograph them. I'm surprised by the number and variety of long-lived organisms. &nbsp; &nbsp; > <a HREF="http://www.oltw.blogspot.com/">blog</a> http://linkfilter.net/?id=149572 Transform your text into word clouds! &nbsp; Simply enter some text and create your word cloud! &nbsp; &nbsp; A word cloud is an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149571 Welcome to Sketchfu, where you can draw and share. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149570 More and more communities are setting up food co-ops so they can get good food at an affordable price and have more control over where their food comes from. &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-operation is all about two or more people joining forces and working together to achieve something they probably couldn't do on their own. &nbsp; &nbsp; In the case of food co-ops a group of people join forces in order to be able to buy foods they may otherwise find it hard to get hold of at a price they can afford. 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Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors. However, they are often poorly indicated – perhaps a deliberate tactic by the private companies who own the spaces to prevent the pesky public from using them. Accessing POPOS sometimes even requires walking past security guards, or through unmarked doors. No wonder many are underfrequented. &nbsp; &nbsp; A concerted effort of concerned citizens – and this map produced by them – is aimed at raising awareness of the existence of these fascinating spaces, 68 in all, both north and south of Market Street, many in existence for decades. This map is part of a guide produced by SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association); the 45 round indicators are POPOS set up between 1959 and 1985, the squares mark the 23 inaugurated after the 1985 Downtown Plan, which stipulated the zoning regulations requiring commercial urban development to be counterbalanced by POPOS. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149567 A study in the journal Psychological Science indicates that people who had facial muscles deadened with botox had difficulty processing negative emotions. http://linkfilter.net/?id=149566 &quot;Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. 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