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Links for 15-17th March

• Simple project management for agile teams: Scrum'd
  SaaS site for managing Scrum.
• Color Vision: How Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution
  Interesting article on Scientific American.
• The World's Largest MMORPG: You're Playing it Right Now
  Making contributing to a community fun.
• Video: HRP-4C fashion model robot
  Freaky robot from Japan
• Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop
  Cloudera's distribution for Hadoop, the open source implementation of Map/Reduce.
• Building a Digital Concept Car
  Animated graph with no flash.
• Atomic construction yields punchier power store
  Very small capacitors.
• Gunns protest claim collapses
  Good news for the Wilderness Society.

Interesting links from 2nd March 2009

• Chaos filter helps robots make sense of the world - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16655-chaos-filter-helps-robots-make-sense-of-the-world.html
  Interesting article and video.
• Fewer Calories (Carbs, Protein or Fat) Are Called Weight-Loss Key - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26diet.html
  A large controlled study finds results that confirm what a lot of people already knew.
• Global Population Speak Out - http://gpso.wordpress.com/
  If we are to maintain our current level of living standards, are there too many people living on Earth? The arguments are compelling.
• Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow. Taste the Rainbow. - http://www.skittles.com/
  Brave move by skittles, turning there whole website over to web 2.0 social sites. User generated content to the max.