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I have been posting random links to my Twitter account over the last week or two – no guarantee that they have anything to do with work! Mostly a grab bag of nerdy/biz/news stuff.

If you want to get these in real time, you can follow me here.

• SIGGRAPH paper on a computer vision technique to make people hotter. awesome: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification2008/
• very impressive video/photo magic: http://tinyurl.com/5q7neb
• blogger vs biz people on the olympics. russell beattie rant: http://snurl.com/3gfqv (expand) vs Silicon alley insider article: http://snurl.com/3gfqz
• growth of women-focused websites in NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14women.html
• neat mailing list search engine: http://markmail.org/
• programming languages by geography: http://tinyurl.com/54s22d
• funny comic about behavioral targeting: http://tinyurl.com/69aemp
• Article on chinese kids under huge academic pressure: "Plight of the Little Emperors" http://snurl.com/3g6kr
• How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap: http://tinyurl.com/b6zwr
• hi5 stacks up on execs: http://tinyurl.com/6rr6mu
• email marketing numbers (open rate/ctr/etc) by industry vertical: http://tinyurl.com/yqtnpq
• article on the origins of chinese athletes: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121824136943426125.html
• lol tila tequila dating terry semel's daughter?? http://tinyurl.com/686xzx
• china's little girl bait-and-switch, girl was "not cute enough" and had to be switched "for the national interest" http://tinyurl.com/5nzfnz
• interesting inside look at the hillary clinton campaign as it was crumbling: http://tinyurl.com/5efmom
• omg delicious: http://tinyurl.com/6jpwvl

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