del.icio.us links for 2006-01-20

• Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: How to Get a Standing Ovation: Guy's take on how to give a good speech. (howto presentation reference)
• Doctors claim suspended animation success: US doctors have developed a method of inducing hypothermia to shut down the body's functions for up to three hours. In tests, they reduced the body temperature of injured pigs from 37C to 10C before operating on them and then reviving them. (biology health news pig science us)
• Boost socket performance on Linux: This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results. (ethernet howto internet linux network programming)
• Dealing with a debt collector: If you're being hounded by bill collectors, you're not alone. The debt collection industry is a large and growing business. Don't be intimidated.The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects you if your creditor has given your account to a third-party c (howto reference)
• Boing Boing: The beef over raw pet food: One approach is known as BARF, which can either stand for "Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods" or "Bones and Raw Food." (animal boingboing dog food news rabbit weird)
• Sploid: College grads dumb, but believe in demons: Many college students nearing graduation are so dumb they have trouble reading credit card offers or calculating the price of food in a supermarket, and seniors and grad students were more likely than freshmen to believe in the paranormal. (education news sploid us weird)