TRUSTe - Make Privacy Your Choice

"Facebook moved into the top 20 trusted companies for the first time this year, signifying an increased trust in social networking as a mainstream communications tool."

image cross fade redux

"This is a rewrite of a very old experiment. This rewrite uses unobtrusive DOM scripting and semantic markup to achieve its goals, and is somewhat less abusive of the CPU in Firefox. It also works in Safari - the original version was written prior to Safari supporting the CSS3 'opacity' property. Opera doesn't support opacity, so the images will just flip in that browser."

Award for Slickest App

Award for Slickest App: "This has to be the coolest application that I have seen yet. The TouchGraph application allows you to visualize your friends that are connected to at least one other person in your network besides yourself. Ultimately this ends up displaying your closest friends through an amazing interface. Zoom in and view the pictures of your friends, drag networks and people around, and see which friends are the most connected to your other friends."

Gene 'triggers unhealthy eating'

BBC NEWS | Health | Gene 'triggers unhealthy eating': "People who carry a gene variant linked to obesity eat an average of 100 extra calories per meal, research suggests.
The key variant of the FTO gene is thought to be carried by 63% of people."

Google tells us what we look for

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google tells us what we look for: "The most searched term for Google users in the UK was Facebook while the BBC came second and its iPlayer service was the fastest rising query.
The list also reveals what global preoccupations are and this year the US election candidates and the Beijing Olympics figure high."