Read about this today in Government Technology: Creators of a tool called ProPlus "say they taken time management to another level with a new mathematical formula to predict the time of day workers will feel most tired."

Check it out. It tries to pinpoint your circadian rhythm and your corresponding CDA or circadian dip along with several "knacker factors" to predict when you're likely to be tired during the day. It's a bit simplistic, but at least seemed to peg me pretty well.

Creepy: From Russia With Hate

Inspired by the example of al-Qaeda, Russian neo-Nazis say they are organizing themselves into a network of autonomous terror cells -- and that the time of their jihad has come.

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Since 2001, Alexei says, Schultz88 and other neo-Nazi groups have organized themselves into cells, modeled on al-Qaeda, which come together for an attack and then disperse. Schultz88 is one of an estimated 50 neo-Nazi groups in Russia, 17 of them based in St. Petersburg. "Direct action [by Schultz88] has sent several hundred [people] to hospital," he says, lounging on a bench in St. Petersburg's lovely Arts Square, with two Schultz88 members sitting by his side. Members of the various neo-Nazi groups keep in touch "through the Internet and by other means, both domestically and abroad," he explains, instinctively clenching and unclenching his fists.

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Khomyakov warns that both the government and established neo-Nazi leaders are losing control of this kind of grass-roots group. "Nobody knows what's brewing down there," he says. Sociologist Starovoitova agrees that neo-Nazi beliefs are slowly creeping into the mainstream. A few years ago, she says, neo-Nazis wouldn't dare court publicity over the murder of a scholar like Girenko who defended ethnic-minority rights. Now, they do.

Red Adair died Saturday at the age of 89. He fought well blazes on both land and sea for more than 50 years.

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Australia
India
Bahrian
USA
Scotland
South Africa

Hanging from the ceiling above me in my cubicle at work is a little battery-operated flying pig. It seemed appropriate somehow.

There's also a "Holy Cow" available.

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