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How to Avoid Jet Lag - A New Rule-of-Tum
YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint!
Funny...but true!

Marriage it like joining the army - Monty on Yahoo! News
Watermelon May Have Viagra-effect
No comment...
Next Thing - Orgasm Park In Korea
NSFW.
Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash
LOL: The Life of Leo
Leo Laporte's website.
HD Videos Bookmarks
Mind Mapping Software | Productivity, Planning, Learning, Communication
Remember The Milk - Services / Mobile version
Mind Map Software
Lego: Working LEGO Gun Will Make You Shoot Bricks
Only in New York! - usa_cars's Car Photo
Search the AnAge Database
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft
Unable to install themes or extensions - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Apple - QuickTime - Tutorials - Including QuickTime In A Web Page
Overconfidence
Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift - New York Times
Low Cost Gas Engine Innovation Doubles Fuel Economy : Gas 2.0
Bill Gates' Made Men: The Wild 'n' Crazy Ventures of the Microsoft Millionaires
Interesting...
SimpleGTD.com : Uber simple, GTD-style todo list organizer
Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System | Zen Habits
Health & Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D. - Cherries and arthritis
"All the favonoids, anthcyanins, carotenoids, vitamin A, and lycopenes in all the fruits that I had been eating were never going to do me any good because they were never going to be absorbed from my GI tract because they are all fat soluble, but I wasn't eating any fat along with them. It was as if I were consuming a huge salad with drenched with no-fat dressing....I immediately went to the fresh cheese stand, bought some farmers cheese and threw back a few curds."

I wonder if this is true...
5 Simple, Effective GTD Tools | Zen Habits
Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders
Getting Things Done by David Allen - Quotes
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
"Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all."

Profound article by Chris Anderson that promotes a new paradigm, much like he did with the long tail. Models are out. Correlations are in, all because the amount of data is sooooo rich. It's the data, stupid!
Hike Half Dome
HBO: George Carlin: 1937-2008
snopes.com: Cooking an Egg Between Two Cell Phones
Hoax! Whew! I'm relieved :)
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
San Diego, CA to Sydney NSW, Australia - Google Maps
Funny travel method..kayaking.
Forbes.com - Comments
Photos: World's most efficient solar dish? | CNET News.com
Photos of this simple, but apparently very efficient and effective solar collection dish.
Sally Squires - To Produce Good Health, Bite Into Fruit and Veggies - washingtonpost.com
"Imagine a drug that could whittle your waistline, control blood pressure, keep you regular, protect your heart, strengthen your bones, cut the risk of stroke and possibly help you sidestep some types of cancer. And what if this drug were also easy to obtain and inexpensive, and it even tasted good?"
5 Google Search Features Valuable To Students
Towns question fluoride use -- chicagotribune.com
globeandmail.com: Mad-cow case confirmed in B.C.
A new case of mad-cow disease in British Columbia was confirmed on Monday, the 13th case in Canada since 2003.
Atheist Revolution: Being Pro-Atheist Does Not Entail Being Anti-Christian
Op-Ed Contributor - Jerry Seinfeld on George Carlin's Life and Comedy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Carlin already did it!
Kevin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Hard image to view and hard story to read.
Big Sur Album
Neat album of Big Sur trek.
List of video editing software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of open source software packages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Math Quiz
Vimeo HD FAQ
Gallons Per Mile Makes More Sense (6/23/2008)
So, what can you photograph? | The Register
Pornocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Carlin: A YouTube Obituary
Strange Horizons Fiction: My Greedy Plea For Help, by Ted Prodromou
Excellent short story (really, it'll take only a few minutes to read), but VERY thought provoking. Do read it.
Portfolio of Jesse van Dijk
Tour de France | Daily News Reports & Commentary | Versus
Tour starts July 5th or so. Lots of riders missing for various reasons, doping, politics, etc. Not sure I'll watch much this year.
Wide Angle . Introduction | PBS
PBS Engage . Five Good Questions for Aaron Brown | PBS
Nice to see him back in play.
Parallax View - Workplace - Most Employers Resist Telecommuting
Geeknews » Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There's Wikipedia?
Regional Parks Foundation
Science News / The Tell-tale Anecdote
in action: a skyscraper's amazing 728-ton stabilising ball | deputydog
DailyTech - MIT Students Develop Revolutionary Solar Dish That is Hot Enough to Melt Steel
Awesome! I love smart people.
pop.density - Do You Know These People?
NSFW...but just for a bit of nudity, nothing raunchy. The pictures convey a more innocent, less self-conscious time.
Rainwater harvesting advocates bring filter tech to the U.S. | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Greg Laden's Blog : How brains work, how brain imaging works: Astrocytes
Thoughts on Global Warming: $2000 "Wind Turbine in a Box" for Homeowners Unveiled
The-3-000-Mile-Oil-Change-Myth- Yahoo! Autos Article Page
12 must-have add-ons for Firefox 3 | Software news, tips, and opinions from Download.com editors - Download.com
Baby-Sitting the Economy - By Paul Krugman - Slate Magazine
reddit.com: Who else is sick of sites hosting research papers that show all their content to Google so it gets indexed, but when people visit, they want you to pay exorbitant fees?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
Why I Deny the Virgin Birth of Jesus - Unreasonable Faith
Pedal-powered tennis ball launcher - Boing Boing
The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the Wall? - washingtonpost.com
Martian Skies - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Stunning! The whole series is stunning.
Evaporative (Swamp) Coolers - Research
3753 Cruithne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earth's second moon.
Subtire.com > Images
Mindjet: Brainstorming, Free Form Thinking, and Visual Aid Mind Mapping Software Program
This looks very cool.
The essence of happiness : Nature News
Carver - Trike car company website
YouTube - Top Gear Shoot out - Carver One
For some reason, I've been into trikes. Trike cars, trike bikes...I'm regressing to the trike days of my youth.

Kelloggs/Lego strategy for increasing child choking deaths and lawsuits
Here's the Kellogg's product page.
Cloned immune cells cleared patient's cancer | Science | The Guardian
"A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells...Tests revealed that the 52-year-old man's tumours, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not returned two years later."
Family, Friends, NBC Fete Russert at Private Memorial - E! Online
Day Hiking Checklist | Yosemite Trail
Yosemite National Park Hikes Research
Summer 2008 Vacation Plans | Wanderings
LUKE RUSSERT "Shares Memories Of His Father" TIM RUSSERT-2/2
Touching interview with Luke Russert, Tim Russert's son. "What a country!" What a wonderful young man.

How to Protect Knees When Hiking Downhill
"Don't Talk to the Police" by Officer George Bruch
NEVER talk to the police. That seems to be the lesson from Officer Bruch. Police can lie to you and every word you say WILL be used against you. Admit NOTHING! Say NOTHING--except to ask for a lawyer. DON'T talk to the police. 'Nuff said.

Like Humans, Other Apes Plan Ahead - Yahoo! News
MySpaceTV Videos: AWESOME thunderstorm by Laura (now at Eye Candy Ink)
About the only thing of value on myspace.
Is the Universe Actually Made of Math? | Math | DISCOVER Magazine
"Unconventional cosmologist Max Tegmark says mathematical formulas create reality."

Truly mind-blowing interview with Max Tegmark, a physicist/mathematician who believes the equations that we use to represent reality are (in more than philosophical sense) merely one reality of many. When the equations of physics change, a new universe is created. Indeed, an infinite series of universes are created, which leads, according to Tegmark, to a/many parallel universe(s).

It's sort of like trying to understand an Ingmar Bergman film, you know there's a lot there, though you can't quite figure it all out.

Clearly, I understood nothing of this interview...but I did find it quite thought provoking.
deputydog | how to safely board a train that won't stop
Russians prove that pigs can fly
Oink! Oink!
Barack Obama on Economics: 'We're Going Through a Big Shift' - WSJ.com
Helpful Bacteria May Hide in Appendix - NYTimes.com
"Novel explanation: The appendix...is a "safe house" for commensal bacteria, the symbiotic germs that aid digestion and help protect against disease-causing germs."
Is it time to revisit the current protein recommendations? | Science Codex
Beware: Enticing summer drinks could add pounds! | One Big Health Nut
"One of the worst examples of liquid refreshment that can pack on the extra pounds is Baskin Robbins' Large Heath Bar Shake. This milk shake is a 32oz meal which infuses you with an entire day's calorie and almost two day's fat allowance in one drink, 2,310 calories and 108g saturated fat."
How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions | The Best Article Every day
The Lancet
"Artificial colours or a sodium benzoate preservative (or both) in the diet result in increased hyperactivity in 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children in the general population."

Looks like another failure to follow the scientific method - from the summary, it appears the researchers failed to design the experiment to control for a single variable. Therefore, they cannot conclude from the results whether the effects are associated with the sodium benzoate or the artificial color cocktail--of which there were two varieties! WTF!

Am I misunderstanding the scientific method or the power of statistics to filter results with multiple variables? Ornish does this a lot, and defends himself by saying they don't have a lot of money for the studies, so they need to get the biggest bang for their buck, so they design experiments with multiple variables. I don't get the logic. Seems like you spend the money without truly knowing what causes the effect, which means you have to do further experiments to isolate the cause. But then you can be chasing your tail because the cause could be the combination of variables and not a single variable.

That actually make a good argument for doing studies this way. If the cause is a combination of variable, you'd never know if all studies were designed to isolate a single variable.

But I expect that's an ad hoc defense, not the true rationale for the experimental design.
PmWiki | Cookbook / GTD Task List Manager
GTD
Summary of Getting things done principles.
Questions For Gore Vidal - Literary Lion - Questions For Gore Vidal - NYTimes.com
Indeed...
Google Search
LaRonda Zupp - Client Support Specialist : Jobs, Careers and Callings
Profile of my wonderful wife!
Oxygen treatment
Richard Beasley
Binoculars: Binocular Reviews, Best Binoculars
Pentax Papilio
Binoculars Buying Guide and Night Vision Guide
Top Free Hosts To Store Your Files Online | MakeUseOf.com
TED | Talks | Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" (video)
Wonderful talk by compassionate economist Paul Collier, who is a well-reasoned advocate for the poor in nations with great resources but without the governmental checks and balances to use those resource for the good of the country. His research has led him to a plan, part of which he shares her at TED. Quite inspiring, though, as he admits, he's a soft-spoken fellow. Worth listening to.

Firedoglake Come Saturday Morning: Bike Travel, Part Two - Some Things I Missed
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages - Six Revisions
Treatments your doctor won't tell you about - Health care- msnbc.com
Wade Davis TED Talk - Worldwide Web of Belief & Ritual - Video
Riveting talk by Davis. He's such passionate advocate for all cultures, maintaining that no culture is a "failed attempt at modern life." Instead, each is a unique, creative expression to life's questions of why? and how? If anything, Davis considers these ancient and ongoing cultures as richer and more complex than the culture(s) our modern industrial age, and I feel he has good reason to feel that way.

PsyBlog: Which Cognitive Enhancers Really Work: Brain Training, Drugs, Vitamins, Meditation or Exercise?
"The evidence for exercise boosting cognitive function is head-and-shoulders above that for brain training, drugs, nutritional supplements and meditation. Scientifically, on the current evidence, exercise is the best way to enhance your cognitive function. And as for its side-effects: yes there is the chance of an injury but exercise can also reduce weight, lower the chance of dementia, improve mood and lead to a longer life-span. Damn those side-effects!"
Banshee Home
Linux media player.
Tip of the Tongue Learning: Science Videos - Science News - ScienCentral
"If the student can't learn something or can't remember something...Instead of trying to remember, students should look up the correct answer. And when you're grinding your mental gears but have no way research the answer immediately? For those situations, Humphreys advises that you, don't keep trying. Just stop."
The Bikini Effect Makes Men Impulsive | LiveScience
"In the study, detailed in the Journal of Consumer Research, men alternately fondled t-shirts and bras (which were not being worn during the test). After touching the bras, men valued the future less and the present more, said lead researcher Bram Van Den Bergh of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Viewing ads with women in bikinis had the same effect."
Did hyperactivity evolve as a survival aid for nomads? - being-human - 10 June 2008 - New Scientist
Learn how David Copperfield flies video and other Magic videos at 5min
Spoiler alert! This vid spoils the trick, but is interesting none-the-less.
How Computers Boot Up : Gustavo Duarte
Synapses Found to Be More Complex Up the Evolutionary Scale - NYTimes.com
Water, Water, Everywhere - The Big Picture - Boston.com
"Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP)"
3 Reason Why Your System Might Be Slow | Bringing Linux to the Masses
Nanosolar Price Barrier Breakthrough Makes Solar Electricity Cheaper Than Coal
Get Rid of Ants - Without Pesticides or Poison
Ultracapacitors: the future of electric cars or the "cold fusion" of autovation? | csmonitor.com
Could this be for real?
Search results slideshow on Flickr
Waterfall and forest....very nice.
WizWheelz TerraTrike Tour - Terra Trike 3.6 - All-Around Design Ideal for Commuting - PBW
AutoZone.com | Shopping | Parts | Routine Maintenance | Battery
Best Car Battery - Car Battery Reviews - Buy Car Battery - Walmart
Summer 2008 Vacation Plans
35 - The Size of Africa - Strange Maps
NASA - Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
Writing Style for Print vs. Web (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Wildflower Identification Guide (White)
gwen's California buckeye slideshow on Flickr
Flavonoids Are Good For You
YouTube - Glock function

A Field Walk With: Jeff Mason, Master Herbalist Vol: 2 - Video
Slingshot Videos And Research
Gun politics in Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock Hill Estate - Lavender, Olive Oil, Wine
Machiavelli Was Right by Charley Reese
"Machiavelli, who was a sort of Karl Rove of his day, though with more integrity, said of the Swiss that they were "the most free and most armed people" of Europe. Get it? The connection between arms and freedom?"

"That statement is still true of the Swiss. Many people know that they practice neutrality, but not many know that they practice armed neutrality. If the gun controllers' claim that the mere presence of arms leads to mayhem were true, the Swiss would have wiped themselves out years ago. There are guns and gun ranges all over the place. You would be hard-pressed to find a Swiss home without a firearm and ammunition. Yet, the Swiss have a very low crime rate."

Hmmm....We're not Swiss, but I get the point. If actually adopted the standard of at least one gun in every home, would that lead to less crime (as in Switzerland) and more gun deaths? I'd have to think more gun deaths...at least at first. After we killed enough of each other, perhaps those who are left would behave like the swiss.

Yet my self-reliant ideals actually find the argument tenable. Hmm...need to think about this more.

This Wikipedia article paints a different picture of Swiss gun use and politics.
callipygian - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Official Google Blog: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Atheist Revolution: An Ode To Tony
"I miss you Tony. I hope you find yourself some day and that the damage is not permanent.You influenced me in ways I'm only just beginning to understand, and although we traveled very different paths, mine was certainly richer for encountering you along the way."
Packing in public: Gun owners tired of hiding their weapons embrace 'open carry' - Los Angeles Times

"Bill White, 24, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wears his Colt pistol when he goes to his local Starbucks in Westminster, Colo."

Taken to its logical extreme, I think this could get very dangerous. My first thought is about kids. How do we protect kids from the guns of irresponsible gun carriers, those (for example) that don't have a securely holstered weapon that a curious kid could pull? I've loved guns from an early age. But for the protection of kids, I don't have one in my house.

The other side is that if we make guns a "normal" part of life for kids, they will get used to them, know how to handle them. But given the risks, I'd rather avoid the potential problem entirely.

Then to road rage, etc. We Americans have enough trouble controlling our anger. Adding guns to the mix isn't a good idea.

This doesn't sit well with me. I just don't trust others (or perhaps even myself) to control their anger or to act responsibly at all times with their guns. The risks are just too high.

Suppressor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Better Ways to Use Your Laptop | Funtasticus.com
Silly, but fun.
World-News: Popcorn with the cell phone - Popcorn mit dem Handy
WTF! 3 vids of the same idea. This one uses only 3 cells to pop the popcorn. Can this be good for our heads?

Barefoot Ted's Adventures
YouTube - The Biomechanics of Running
Kamana One: Exploring Natural Mystery
Magnesium
Minnetonka Mens Classic Fringed Boot reviews in Slippers - Sorted by Newest first- Buzzillions.com
The Anthropik Network » Learning to Walk
zTheTrackerv4-1FrontCover.jpg (JPEG Image, 507x618 pixels)
Ankle High Moccasin Boots : Womens Moccasins - Shop at Moccasins
Buy.com Memorial Tribute to Darin Fralick
"The Buy.com family is deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker and friend, Darin Fralick. Darin was an extremely dedicated employee and good-hearted man whom we will miss everyday."

Best I can tell, Darin died in auto accident.
Fox walking
Engage Gluteus maximus!
YouTube - Foxwalking
YouTube - Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning

Mind Map Flash Viewer
American Dream Project
"That very night I found myself reading a great new book, The Art of Learning, by Josh Weitzkin who quotes a powerful proverb that fits today's challenges."

"Life is a long road of thorns in which we are confronted with three options: 1) we can walk the road barefoot and bloody, 2) we can sit down, weep and wait for someone to pave it, or 3) we can make our own sandals."
Quit Smoking - Video
Secret-Ways-to-Boost-Your-Social-Security: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Cassini Nears Four-year Mark - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Gapminder - Income Distribution, 2003
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
One of my college profs had a twinkie he said was 7 years old...it it was still soft and looked fresh.
7 Innocent Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas | Cracked.com
Welcome to CarlZimmer.com
A Stroke Leads a Brain Scientist to a New Spirituality - NYTimes.com
Calvin and Hobbes comic on GoComics - Flash Player Installation
25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples - Six Revisions
300 Calorie Food Picture Gallery
8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 22 | almostfearless.com
Free Online Classifieds - Walmart.com Classifieds
Free to list classified ads...from Walmart.
How Long to Boil Water - So It's Safe to Drink
Hiking Backpacking Camping - Research
15 Essentials
Solar Cooking
How Long Do You Need To Boil Water?
"According to the Wilderness Medical Society, water temperatures above 160° F (70° C) kill all pathogens within 30 minutes and above 185° F (85° C) within a few minutes. So in the time it takes for the water to reach the boiling point (212° F or 100° C) from 160° F (70° C), all pathogens will be killed, even at high altitude."

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