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Nail-biters take note: You're (potentially) suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the American Psychiatric Association, the organization proposes reclassifying nail biting as a mental disorder in its revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DMS) scheduled for release in 2013.

There's lots of organization principles implemented in restaurants. From the table layout to the menu to the staff, a restaurant can be viewed as an organizing system with many different resources depending on the perspective. But organizing patrons' tastes, tics, habits and foibles? There's that, too. (Didn't you know?)

Between investigating the best restaurants, safe travel routes and must-see destinations, planning a trip can be downright time-consuming, and above all else, frustrating for the user. Even worse? Often times, users must hop from site to site in search of the travel information they need. Hopper—the startup trying to impose structure on the scattered landscape of consumer-travel data—aims to streamline the travel discovery process in one place. (In INFO 202 speak, essentially a library comprised of travel-related content from around the web.)