Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-26-2008

• One of the most interesting aspects of Barack Obama's speeches is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans
  Fascinating article. Well worth a read if you have any interest in the classics, or oratory in general
  (tags: Obama speeches politics language communication)
• MRI shows brain wiring's connection to personality
  The stronger the connection between frontal lobe and ventral striatum, the more distinctive the desire for recognition by that person's environment, with people who constantly seek new experiences, striatum and hippocampus are evidently wired particularly well.
  (tags: research psychology personality neuroscience brain)
• Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison Avenue
  Genetic Algorithms take chunks of adverts and builds complete adverts out of them, tuning them based on success rates. Very impressive. Evil too, of course :->
  (tags: genetics evolution business advertising optimization)
• See Questions & Answers as They Come in - 118.com
  They do a text-message based questions and answers service. This shows you the questions and answers in realtime.
  (tags: funny geek phone telephone marketing)
• Eidos UK PR firm: We are "not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say"
  But apparently they are in the business of massaging Metacritic scores. Oh, the stupidity.
  (tags: review gaming stupidity)