The “peace” symbol turns 50: “It started life as the emblem of the British anti-nuclear movement but it has become an international sign for peace, and arguably the most widely used protest symbol in the world. It has also been adapted, attacked and commercialised.”

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Is Our Happiness Preordained? “Two new studies this month add to a growing body of evidence that factors like genes and age may impact our general well-being more than our best day-to-day attempts at joy.” [...] Across the world, people in their 40s generally claim to be less happy than those who are younger or older, and the global happiness nadir appears to hit somewhere around 44. [...]

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Taaz lets you upload a picture of yourself and change your appearance.

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Sequoia advices for presenting a bplan to a VC firm.

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The Face of La Defense in Paris is going to change a bit with those propositions for the Tour Signal.

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Yves Béhar won Design of the Year for the One laptop per child.

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Cancer-free cigarets: “Scientists have genetically modified tobacco plants to knock out a gene that helps turns nicotine into one of the carcinogens in cured tobacco.” I was really hoping that somebody would turn my 4 packs a day habit into somebody less harmful.

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Lawrence Lessig & Joe Trippi launched Change Congress

“The Change Congress project’s first mission is to diminish the influence of money in the legislative body by influencing the outcome of the 2008 election campaigns of 67 members of congress which are up for grabs. As the Change Congress project founder Larry Lessig noted in the project’s launch Thursday afternoon, there haven’t been so many seats open up for challenge in more than a decade.”
Wired article

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Artist of the day: Vampire Weekend, thanks to my collegue.

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