These guys built a that sends you an SMS via twitter when it needs water.
Found: here.
Facebook meets ICICIDirect?
Cake Financial is a start-up that is trying to bring the concept of social networking to your investment portfolio:
Cake is the free online service that makes it easy to follow the real portfolios and the real trades of your family and friends as well as top-performing members within the Cake community.
The basic idea is that when you and your friends/family sign up with Cake, their actual investments are tracked by cake, and you are informed of who is buying what. Not a “virtual market”, but actual trades made by them with their actual money. Not the exact numbers (for reasons of privacy) but which stocks who invested in, and the percentage returns on their portfolio. The idea is that you can use this information to improve your returns on investment.
Why Don’t The French Get As Fat As Americans?
This article reports on new research that has the answer:
Because they use internal cues — such as no longer feeling hungry — to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues — such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they’re watching is over.
See full article. (Found via boing-boing.)