Speaking of Wing Nut!

February 17, 2012

Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks…Since 2005! – Carscoop: For the past 7 years (!), Joe has been digging out his basement at an average annual rate of 8 to 9 cubic feet using nothing more than RC tractors and trucks! (Via Slashdot) Kinda cool, I just don’t have [...]

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How about…

February 17, 2012

Wireless Implant Meters Drug Doses – Optimized Systems: Smart medical implants can now dispense drugs into the bloodstream as a result of wireless signals sent to it from the doctor’s office. (Via Slashdot) Dangerous. Crazy. I hate the idea of implants, especially one with microchips. How about we just get everyone convinced to be more [...]

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Finally

February 17, 2012

Debunking the housing fund myths Unin­formed emo­tion is not the way to decide. Finally, someone I don’t agree with making some reasonable points. I do have discussions with people all the time the don’t head the quoted advise. I’m not always the most informed but I try not to go hard on points I can’t [...]

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One Thing Your Blood Can Tell You

February 16, 2012

Blood Tests Can Accurately Diagnose Depression: They measured the levels of nine biomarkers associated with depressive symptoms, such as inflammation, the development and maintenance of neurons, and the interaction between brain structures involved with stress response and other key functions. (Via Hacker News) No duh, blood chemistry and depression are linked! Next they’ll find out [...]

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The More You Know…

February 16, 2012

Dietary Fiber in the News…: 3g of fiber is the amount added if you want to put “good source of fiber” on a grocery store item.  note, an apple has 5grams of natural fiber. (Via Paleo Runners)

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Blur

February 16, 2012

With iMessage & notifications, OS X Mountain Lion looks more like iOS — Apple News, Tips and Reviews: Apple’s desktop OS is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to iOS, especially with the new incorporation of iOS features like iMessage, Game Center, Reminders and Notifications into the software. They are continuing to blur [...]

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Breaking

February 16, 2012

All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately Why do so many web developers think that tablets are an excuse to break the functionality of the web? (Via Hacker News) I hate it when they do this and I abandon whatever I was doing as well.

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Proving What Grok Taught Us

February 15, 2012

Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need A grow­ing body of evi­dence demon­strates that high-intensity inter­val train­ing can serve as an effec­tive alter­nate to tra­di­tion­al endurance-based train­ing, induc­ing sim­i­lar or even supe­ri­or phys­i­o­log­i­cal adap­ta­tions in healthy indi­vid­u­als and dis­eased pop­u­la­tions, at least when com­pared on a matched-work basis. Counter to my distance running I know [...]

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My Food

February 15, 2012

300K Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims after audits revealed that their farms had con­tained their prod­uct — as a result of rou­tine pol­li­na­tion by ani­mals and acts of nature. More then just their dirty business practice. Their GMO seeds are infecting MY food. This is why it’s not cool to just [...]

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Wanna Learn A Thing, Maybe Two?

February 15, 2012

I’ll be putting on a troubleshooting session at PodCamp Toronto this year. The title that I came up with, then promptly forgot is “Help! I Have This Mic and I Don’t Know How To Use It!” Hope a few people will bring their gear and we can figure out how to give tips on getting [...]

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