Ingesting bacteria can make you smarter, Google's PAC-MAN game is here to stay, and a potency chart of our favorite short-term productivity booster, caffeine.
Can Bacteria Make You Smarter?
At a microbiology conference today, results from a study involving mice show that ingesting a particular bacteria increases learning ability. [Discovery News]BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved' BitTorrent Protocol
BitTorrent is making a new protocol called micro transfer protocol (uTP) open source. It will be available in the latest release of uTorrent. The protocol will throttle the download if it becomes aware of congestion in the network. [TorrentFreak]PAC-MAN rules!
Google's 30th anniversary PAC-MAN game is now permanently playable at http://www.google.com/pacman. [The Official Google Blog]How I learned to become a failure
Small failures are aren't failures; they're invaluable. Failures allow you to learn and adapt faster, so that you can succeed. [Digitalmash]How "Open" Is Google Really? [VIDEO]
Free Software Foundation and GNU founder Richard Stallman discusses about how open Google really is, and how much user data and freedom they actually control. [Mashable]Evil
When you post your phone number on Facebook, make sure that it really is private and you're not sharing it to the entire world. [Tom Scott]From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings
Mark Zuckerberg addresses Facebook's recent privacy concerns, and affirms that it will implement better privacy controls. [The Washington Post]The Caffeine Poster
Follow caffeine in all its various incarnations. [Flickr]