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Monday, December 6, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The World's Greatest Literature, Summarized Courtesy of Microsoft Word
via jason-huff.com
The top 100 most downloaded public domain books are summarized here. Worth a browse.
Note to students: this is not an effective way to study for tests when you didn't read the book. Sorry if that's a spoiler.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Go to the Gym Every Day at Lunch? Doesn't matter.
In a study published in May in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, they reported that, to no one’s surprise, the men who sat the most had the greatest risk of heart problems. Men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in their cars (as passengers or as drivers) had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised. Quite a few of them said they did so regularly and led active lifestyles. The men worked out, then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting.
I've got a standing desk at home, but not at the office. I wonder if that has any impact on all of this.
Jewel Poses as "Homely" to Sing Jewel Songs at Karaoke
via funnyordie.com
Listening to the people in the audience reacting to her alter-ego, Karen, is probably the best part. Awesome idea.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Agnostic Cartographer
One fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement of Indian place-names; the next it was sprinkled with Mandarin characters, like a virtual annex of the People’s Republic.
The error could hardly have been more awkward. Governed by India but claimed by China, Arunachal Pradesh has been a source of rankling dispute between the two nations for decades. Google’s sudden relabeling of the province gave the appearance of a special tip of the hat toward Beijing. Its timing, moreover, was freakishly bad: the press noticed that Google’s servers had started splaying Mandarin place-names all over the state only a few hours before Indian and Chinese negotiating teams sat down for talks in New Delhi to work toward resolving the delicate border issue.
Sometimes, taking a neutral point of view causes its own problems. Border issues are about as old as international or inter-tribal disputes get, and nations are no less passionate about them than they've ever been.
Rounders Meets Retirement Meets The Price is Right
via esquire.com
He might not look like much, but this guy was one of the few who first figured out how to game The Price is Right.
Best part? He's a meteorologist. It makes me wonder what special talents Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz is hiding. You know he's a closet cage fighter.
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