Seek and you shall … How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting:
“The dopamine system does not have satiety built into it,” Berridge explains. “And under certain conditions it can lead us to irrational wants, excessive wants we’d be better off without.” So we find ourselves letting one Google search lead to another, while often feeling the information is not vital and knowing we should stop. “As long as you sit there, the consumption renews the appetite,” he explains.
New in cuke. Five Cucumber/Webrat features you may not know, and the new arguments transform.
The buddy system. Interesting look into how our network affects our health and happiness.
Snapshots. Running MySQL on Amazon EBS. Love being able to backup the database with a snapshot.
Exposé + space. Must have been asleep at class when they covered these Mac keyboard shortcuts. Useful stuff.