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Zemanta’s customer care shines during outage

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Here at Brinkwire we’re huge fans of Zemanta. The plugin is an easy way to make you blog better and for less effort. The widget scans your blog post to suggest links and tags but perhaps our favourite feature is how it finds appropriately licensed pictures to use with the post.
Zemanta also provides a handy-dandy [...]

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Swearing helps you cope with pain

Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

It’s official. Swearing helps you cope with pain. Today Slashdot highlights this article from Scientific American that explains how certain words are better at coming from/getting to the deeper and more evolutionary parts of the brain like the amygdale.
A study had college students see how long they could keep their hands in cold water and [...]

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