UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner is a pioneer in the study of an emotion known as "elevation," characterized by a "a feeling of spreading, liquid warmth in the chest and a lump in the throat." (Not be confused with heartburn.) Triggering that emotion in the lab is challenging. His research group's latest approach though is to play their subjects Barack Obama's victory speech. (My IFTF colleague Jason Tester has dubbed the impact of Obama on people's brains "neurobama.") Slate has a great profile of "elevation" research, including the work of moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis. I also look forward to reading Keltner's forthcoming book on the subject of "elevation," titled Born To Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life (which is not an Obama biography). From Slate: Elevation has always existed but has just moved out of the realm of philosophy and religion and been recognized as a distinct emotional state and a subject for psychological study. Psychology has long focused on what goes wrong, but in the past decade there has been an explosion of interest in "positive psychology"—what makes us feel good and why. University of Virginia moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who coined the term elevation, writes, "Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental 'reset button,' wiping out feelings of cynicism and replacing them with feelings of hope, love, and optimism, and a sense of moral inspiration...." We come to elevation, Haidt writes, through observing others—their strength of character, virtue, or "moral beauty." Elevation evokes in us "a desire to become a better person, or to lead a better life." "Obama in Your Heart" (Slate), Buy "Born To Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life" (Amazon), Buy "The Happiness Hypothesis" (Amazon)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=26e20096747314259a7e32045fa2ec27p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=26e20096747314259a7e32045fa2ec27p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=26e20096747314259a7e32045fa2ec27" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

pimg class="derecha_sinmarco" src="http://img.genbeta.com/computervirus.jpg" alt="" /Los amigos de strongDigital Inspiration/strong han estado haciendo unas cuantas pruebas y han conseguido sacarle los colores a strongGmail/strong. La prueba consistía en enviar varios archivos comprimidos con una contraseña y que contenían algún tipo de virus en su interior, para ver si era capaz de detectarlo y avisarnos. La sorpresa (o no tanto) fue cuando los archivos pasaron sin problemas por strongGmail/strong./p pAl descargar dichos archivos Windows Defender saltó rápidamente a avisar de que, efectivamente, esos archivos contenían un virus. El motivo de que no pueda escanearlo es básicamente por la contraseña, ya que strongGmail/strong no es capaz de leer estos archivos, mientras que la mayoría de los antivirus de escritorio si que pueden./p pUna alternativa que proponen los amigos de strongDigital Inspiration/strong es, si en un momento dado sospechamos que un archivo adjunto que nos han enviado al correo contiene virus mandárselo a a href="mailto:scan@virustotal.com"scan@virustotal.com/a que nos responderá con un informe sobre el archivo. Aunque personalmente no me fiaría de mandar archivos privados, pero esto es cosa mía./p pAsí que andad con mil ojos si recibís archivos adjuntos de remitentes no demasiado conocidos, ya que es posible que os la estén intentando jugar. strong¿Conocéis más alternativas para analizar archivos adjuntos por email?/strong/p pVía | a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/virus-in-gmail-due-to-password-protected-files/5696/"Digital Inspiration/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/m1UENYZAOF6PqCufR9hUu8NrY4E/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/m1UENYZAOF6PqCufR9hUu8NrY4E/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/genbeta?a=O4bbEvTe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/genbeta?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/genbeta?a=PMXOJZQz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/genbeta?d=151" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/genbeta?a=Nc9lRORk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/genbeta?d=181" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/genbeta?a=e1X3sicE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/genbeta?d=596" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/genbeta?a=eLVAGMc3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/genbeta?d=153" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/genbeta/~4/lCGQ-NEdNCc" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/open_viewer.jpg" width="212" height="202" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/Windows/Linux (Firefox): Microsoft, through its open-source hosting site (yes, that really exists), has released a plug-in and extension set for Windows and Linux versions of Firefox that can open Office 2007 files natively. While there are certainly many work-arounds for those encountering the newer, won't-open-in-older-Office-suite .DOCX files, including a href="http://lifehacker.com/5078197/open-office-2007-docx-files-in-gmail-google"using Google tools/a, a href="http://lifehacker.com/353692/five-email-addresses-that-convert-documents"converting by email/a, and others, Linux users in particular may find using Firefox a lot more handy. Both flavors require installing a plug-in and then adding the Firefox extension, and may also require tweaking Firefox's application settings. The OpenXML Document Viewer is a free download, works for Firefox on Windows and Linux. div class="related"a href="http://www.codeplex.com/OpenXMLViewer/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19713"OpenXML Document Viewer/a[Codeplex via a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/open-docx-files-in-firefox-as-html/5827/"Digital Inspiration/a]/div /p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=12c0590a089458e5b8f3061347a7879bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=12c0590a089458e5b8f3061347a7879bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=12c0590a089458e5b8f3061347a7879b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=LZKAdTZ5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=0LMz9Hy6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=W9KWoaCh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=W9KWoaCh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=nnWdGuri"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=nnWdGuri" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/-LKJgLHfjB0" height="1" width="1"/

Watson the Beagle ate: nbsp; 8 pairs of panties nbsp; nbsp; (3 pairs of Matt’s girlfriend’s, 2 pairs of matt’s brother’s girlfriend’s, and 3 pairs of their roommate julian’s girlfriend’s) nbsp; nbsp; 7 pairs of sandals nbsp; nbsp; (3 pairs of matt’s sandals, 2 pairs of aaron’s, and 2 pairs of julian’s) nbsp; nbsp; 1 pair of Prada shoes nbsp; nbsp; (the inspiration for this site! also $350 dollars down the drain... sorry, Liz.) nbsp; nbsp; 1 $3000 hair wig

Via WWD:

"When Marc Jacobs found himself in a meeting on a recent Monday morning to brainstorm about Louis Vuitton’s next fashion advertising campaign, inspiration struck. 'I just blurted out, ‘I think we should do Madonna,’' said the designer, Vuitton’s creative director, mentioning he’d attended a concert by the pop icon the night before in Paris. 'I was totally just blown away by it, and moved by her performance, by what she had to say, and her energy.' As the meeting went on, Jacobs tapped out a message to Madonna on his BlackBerry, and within about five minutes came the reply: 'I’d love to.' Although [Vuitton’s director of communications Antoine] Arnault declined to give figures, he said media budgets for the fashion campaign would be on par with a year ago. And he dismissed as 'absurd' reports pegging Madonna’s fees at $10 million. 'It’s very far away from that,' he assured."

Four more images have been shot for the campaign, which begins in February.

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Sackboy, your beloved player character from the creative adventure LittleBigPlanet has arrived in his full wool and yarn glory.

The simple design of Sackboy allows you to use your imagination when you decorate and personalize him.

See how your designs will look on Sackboy in real life, stitch and glue fabric together and dress him in the most up to date fashion.

For those who need inspiration, there are a number of decorated Sackboys available. With an eyepatch and a hook, Sackboy transforms himself into Captain Hook the renowned pirate from Peter Pan.

Those who prefers fantasy settings can get the swordsman Sackboy who comes with his red felt cape and sword, while the happy go lucky of you can make a fashion statement by attaching the sunflower Sackboy to your belongings.

Let loose your creative streak by getting your very own Sackboy now.

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Due to popular demand, all sackboys, including the Sunflower version, will be restocked by tomorrow, so just feel free to order your favourite player character.

There are also two larger sized versions coming soon and are available for preorder:

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/youtube_at_work.jpg" width="494" height="200" align="center"/YouTube is full of videos that don't require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn't easy. Digital Inspiration's Amit Agarwal suggests two methods, though, that work great for browsing other sites or doing actual, you know, work, while keeping a video cornered and always on top. The first requires re-working a video link to its full-screen version and bookmarking it to load in Firefox's sidebarmdash;something we've a href="http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Sidebar-GCal-agenda/2805347"covered before/a with a href="http://lifehacker.com/383481/put-facebook-chat-in-firefoxs-sidebar"many/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/google-notebook/open-google-notebook-in-the-firefox-sidebar-254789.php"other/a a href="http://lifehacker.com/390912/put-google-reader-in-your-sidebar"apps/a. The other method creates a mini-browser window that always stays on top using an a href="http://www.box.net/shared/4ej5cqoekj"AutoHotKey-coded app/a. Hit the link below for details on each idea, which should make burning through your favorite webisodes easier while still plucking away on your busy work. div class="related"a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/watch-youtube-videos-while-multi-tasking/5791/"How to Watch YouTube Videos While Working on other Tasks/a [Digital Inspiration]/div /p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1c9ffde1574c3af74f4ff18c3910372b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=BlPjrZ64"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=SgmKOdF7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=zvglbhXm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=zvglbhXm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=WJ94KoDL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=WJ94KoDL" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/lXC9iw1i1uw" height="1" width="1"/

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Which lucky guy gets the honor of being Taylor Swift's inspiration for her latest love song?

Ashley Beedle (X-Press 2/Ballistic Brothers) and Massive Attack collaborator Horace Andy have paired up for the second in the series of the Inspiration Information album series.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/skydrive_splash.jpg" width="514" height="253" align="center"/br / a href="http://live.com"Windows Live/a, intended to be a landing page for social activity and Microsoft's cloud-connected apps, is rolling out a host of redesigns and upgrades today, but none so exciting (to our eyes, anyways) as the a href="http://lifehacker.com/5094242/skydrive-will-upgrade-to-25gb-of-online-storage"anticipated/a jump of the a href="http://skydrive.live.com"SkyDrive/a online storage service to 25GB capacity. As the Digital Inspiration blog a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-online-storage-live-skydrive/5771/"points out/a, SkyDrive seems to be a central part of the Redmond giant's web ambitions, so it's not likely to go away or shrink. Aside from the raw upload/download capabilities, having a SkyDrive account gives you a few other cool abilities, which we'll detail below./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/skydrive_nosignup.jpg" width="362" height="120" class="right" align="right"/strongNo-sign-up-needed sharing:/strong If you've used most any Microsoft service, you know their features are often linked to a drive to get more people signed into their apps and networks. Not so with SkyDrive, which offers a nice little checkbox for sending sharing links to any email address without requiring a Live sign-in.br clear="all" //p pstrongLots of tools for photos:/strong Tag yourself or friends Facebook-style in your photos, launch elegant pic-on-black-background slideshows from folders of pictures (your own or shared) that works on any browser (but supposedly better with Silverlight installed), order prints, and SkyDrive's thumbnails are nicely big and clear. Here's how photos are handled in SkyDrive's file browser:/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/skydrive_photos.jpg" width="607" height="599" class="center" align="center"/br clear="all" //p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/skydrive_zipped.jpg" width="194" height="191" class="left" align="left"/strongGrab entire folders as single .zip files:/strong This simple, helpful compression feature isn't entirely common amongst file-sharing/storage services. You can also drop photos right into your Live Photo Gallery, if that's how your roll.br clear="all" //p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/windowslive_contacts.jpg" width="440" height="233" class="left" align="left"/strongEasy sharing and updates on contacts' files:/strong Windows Live allows you to keep updated with what your friends on Live, Facebook, and LinkedIn are up to, and SkyDrive is no different. Your main SkyDrive page will let you know if any of your contacts have opened up a file for public sharing, and you can organize contacts into categories for easy group sharingmdash;so everyone, for example, in "Project Team" can be sent your latest report at once, with one click.br clear="all" //p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/skydrive_gladinet.jpg" width="220" height="135" class="left" align="left"/strongMount SkyDrive on your desktop with Gladinet:/strong As we a href="http://lifehacker.com/5100226/gladinet-mounts-web-storage-apps-as-virtual-drives"detailed earlier this week/a, Gladinet's free a href="http://www.gladinet.com/p/download.htm"Cloud Desktop beta/a allows you mount and access SkyDrive (and Picasa, Google Docs, and Amazon's S3) as if it were a plain network folder. Drag-and-drop access to 25GB of go-anywhere cloud space is surely a nifty thing.br clear="all" //p pstrongStill lackingmdash;50MB file size limit:/strong Amongst SkyDrive's a href="http://lifehacker.com/5064688/online-storage-feature+by+feature-comparison-chart"online storage peers/a, 50MB isn't quite eye-opening, especially for a service that wants to be the hub of a burgeoning online network. Still, for photos, documents, and even most zipped-up MP3 albums, it's decent enough./p pSkyDrive requires a sign-up with a href="http://live.com"Windows Live/a for storing and sharing files. What do you think of the newly-expanded SkyDrive? 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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/92855?ns=guardianpageName=Film%3A+How+Hollywood+grew+up+about+teen+sexch=Filmc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Film%2CCulture+section%2CSex+education%2CSexual+health+%28Society%29c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CHealth+Society%2CSchools+Educationc6=Henry+Barnesc7=2008_12_03c8=1128017c9=articlec10=GUc11=Filmc12=blogc13=c14=Film+blogh2=GU%2FFilm%2Fblog%2FFilm+blog" width="1" height="1" //divpParents! Do you know what your teenage son has got himself into? The answer, according to the people behind such films as new teen comedy a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/127833/sex.drive"Sex Drive/a, is socks, apple pies, soft fruit and his friends' mums. If it's inanimate or inappropriate, he's been there./ppApologies for crassness, but that's exactly the kind of humour regularly employed by Hollywood scriptwriters to describe the coming of age experience. Male teens are sweaty lumps of sexual frustration who will hump anything; they're enthusiastic but useless lovers who think finesse is something you yell when it's over. /ppWe have Paul Weitz's genre classic American Pie (in which unions with all the above occur) to thank for this stereotype - which, shockingly, is an improvement on the previous state of affairs. Following the progress of four high-school boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night, the film gifted the sexcom genre with a whole new set of moves. /ppBefore Pie, comedy films for the teenage market followed Russ Meyers' mantra - "big laughs and big tits" - but weren't much bothered if the latter squeezed the former out. The format was all about cramming in gross-out gags regardless of the plot, hence the shallow humour of 80s hits such as a href="http://uk.youtube.com