Good news, bad news; that's how the day rolls

These things seem cool:

• A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity -- you don't just break even; you come out ahead! If only there were time and space in my day...
  (via boing boing)
  
  
• How Outside Groups And Vulnerable Dems Gave The Public Option A New Pulse. It still may not be part of the final health reform bill, but this is a good demonstration of how a combination of pressures from inside and outside the system can make amazing things happen.
  
  
• Clean smells promote generosity and fair play, and related subconscious phenomena that underlie our metaphors and our perceptions of the world.
  
  
• Kids Today! So Spoiled made me laugh -- and it's always just this latest generation of parents that is Doing It Wrong... (don't read the comment thread though; just too humorless.)

These things are decidedly uncool:

• Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs.
  (via Atrios)
  
  
• Your cell phone is not your friend: Law enforcement is tracking Americans' cell phones in real time—--without the benefit of a warrant.
  (via boing boing)
  
  
• The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism -- the more that the press tries to be "objective," the worse it does at making sure that its reporting is based in reality, with ever more surreal results.
  

Not sure what to think of this: swarming display blocks, which can disassemble and reassemble while continuing to carry information.