links for 2007-09-07

• Diacetyl – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Don’t inhale those microwave popcorn fumes
  (tags: chemicals food advisory)
• Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators
  …We show that several common scheduling strategies, including the “hit-the-highest-nail” strategy beloved by procrastinators, have arbitrarily large maximum interval stretch. Then we give the “thrashing” scheduling policy…
  (tags: research productivity papers scheduling)
• The Open Problems Project
  (tags: algorithms mathematics research problems Science)