Daily Brew

Ars Technica: Forget googling someone before a first date or a job interview, now you can just "spock" them with spock.com, a new people search engine in beta that promises to be rich in (damning) details.

Currency Trading.net: This break down of the 50 factors that affect the value of the US dollar should shed some light on why Europe is so damn expensive now and your dollar is only going as far as a Segway on an LA freeway.

Discover Magazine: Think you can cram that monstrous to-do list in only a 24-hour period? Consider this, rats that go ten days without sleep tend to, well, die. Read that here along with other scientific research on the importance of sleep, dreaming, and info on the overall functions of your brain.

IBM.com: Already having a bad day? Well, cheer up, because the HTML 5 has just gotten an update with some new elements to make coding easier and more forgiving of errors.

Live Science.com: Did you know your skin has four colors? And nine other things you probably didn't know about yourself.

--Andrea Chalupa