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Progressive Insurance is… Progressive
Just got this in my inbox today from Progressive Insurance: “Go Paperless and Save the World!” Why is that interesting? My bank has been trying to get me to go paperless so they can save money for years. Same for my goddamn utility companies. They never offer me ANY INCENTIVE (are you guys reading this?) to [...]
Continue reading...Staring at Boobs Extends Male Life by 5 Years
Sunday, December 2, 2007
The best German researcher ever has published in the New England Journal of Medicine that a study including 200 health men over 5 years, including 3 separate hospitals, has concluded that men looking at “busty women” for 10mins every day, will extend their lifespan by 5 years. The actual statistics are surprising, as it’s said to [...]
Continue reading...Woman Gets 10lbs Hairball Removed
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Did you just vomit? I almost did… I was chewing a piece of watermelon gum when I saw this and almost vomited goddamn hell right out of my mouth. What you see above, is a hairball. The result of “years of eating her own hair” to be exact… that puppy is a 10lbs ball of hair [...]
Continue reading...Porn Stars Lecture at UC Irvine
Thursday, November 15, 2007
News Flash: I’m going back to school, W00T! No seriously, 4 porns stars stepped into the UC Irvine classroom to teach a 3 hour class on the “Sociology of Sexuality”. I don’t know what that means, but they played segments of their movies as examples… Ummm you mean I don’t need to be hunkered, in the dark, [...]
Continue reading...Scientists Create Super Mice
Friday, November 2, 2007
Scientists working in a US lab have created a breed of super mouse that can “can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping” reports the BBC. The mice are also showing 10x the number of mitochondria in their muscle [...]
Continue reading...Exubera: $2.8 Billion Flop, Pfizer Quits
Saturday, October 20, 2007
BusinessWeek is reporting that Pfizer has given up trying to make Exubera (inhalable insulin) profitable and walked away from the product to the tune of $2.8 billion dollars; handing it back to the original creators, Nektar Therapeutics. Not surprisingly, the oversight that made Exubera such a huge flop (projected to revolutionize the insulin industry) is [...]
Continue reading...Carpal Tunnel Not Linked to Computer Use
Monday, October 15, 2007
Slashdot has a really interesting article saying that a “geek physician” has scoured through medical papers and literature to conclude that there really is very little linkage between constant computer use and carpal tunnel syndrome; a link most people assume is true without question. Also mentioned: It even seems that both Harvard and the Journal of [...]
Continue reading...$1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use
Monday, September 24, 2007
Ripped straight from Slashdot, it looks like improvements in solar panel design (with 11-13% efficiency) is going to allow for some mass commercial roll-outs starting very soon. For the folks living in the South West or other crazy-sunny areas that have been waiting for solar tech to stop costing a mint for a small array setup, [...]
Continue reading...Going Chairless at Work Boosted Productivity
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
As someone that sits most of the day, especially behind a computer, the idea of getting a tall bar-like desk that I stood behind (or sat on a bar-stool?) was interesting… I’ve certainly had my fair share of carpal-tunnel problems and other issues (back pain) that come from sitting all day, so anything different might [...]
Continue reading...7 Ways to the “Action Habit”
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The “Action Habit” or the habit of putting your thoughts or plans into action. One of the hardest habits to develop and one of the biggest properties lacking from people today. Most of us avoid action out of fear. Here are 7 ways to grow the habit and help it to grow (Hit the link for [...]
Continue reading...Thing I Wish I Knew When I was Younger
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A great blog post over at LifeHack, my favorites were: Most of it doesn’t matter. Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever. Every winner is destined to be a loser in due course. You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole. People are oddly consistent. However [...]
Continue reading...Productivity Secret
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Claimed to be the productivity secret of Jerry Seinfeld and a great suggestion. It goes as follows: Cut a hole in a box… … woops wrong tip… here’s the real one: Get a calendar that shows every day of the year on a wall-sized piece of paper and a red marker Decide what you want to do/get better at (e.g. [...]
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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