Nerd Talk Wednesdayz

• The Freakonomics cat's blog has sucked ever since it moved to nytimes.com, but that's just a side note.
• Google search is now accompanied by a "face filter" option. When searching images, the user now has the option to view only pictures that have faces in the jpg.
• Back To School Special: quick, effective tips on how to speed read
• Lu-Dro-ism of the Day: via Wikipedia
• A talk given by Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and Tipping Point, at the 2004 TED Conference in Monterey, CA. The topic of the talk is Happiness; in it, Gladwell gives the story of a food industry consultant and how his experience in finding out people's food preferences forced him to re-evaluate his understanding what makes people happy (video length 17:42).