Vegetarians are so much more eco-friendly than you
Looks like being vegetarian just got a little cooler. This is definitely a one-up for Indians (from India that is) and their devotion to the vegetarian diet. Looks like they have all been ahead of the times and Al Gore with their diet standards keeping the earth cooler and keeping animals happier as well.
I can [...]
PETA Endorsing meat from a test tube…situational ethics at its best
So this one really is interesting to me. PETA apparently is offering $1 mill for anyone that can come up with a way to create a meat source from a test tube. The idea here being that the current meat industry that is encouraged by a massive over consumption and operates on some pretty harsh [...]
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Super cool document scanning service
I’m loving this world of digital with it’s new found respect for those pretty things that grow in the ground and have leaves to keep me cool and smell so nice.
That being said, if you ever find the need to digitize, well, anything, this service is the place to do it. You can subscribe monthly [...]
Tired of automated phone systems, dial-a-human to the rescue!
For all those of you who get sick of the “Press x” labrinth of neverending prompts and automated responses like teasing whispers of the cheese to come that you don’t even really want but simply need because the grater you bought doesn’t work in the first plac!….whew…there is the lovable, adorable and alphabetically organized dial-a-human [...]
Searching for god the LHC way
So the Large Hadron Collider is due to be turned on in full capacity roughly a year from now when they really start generating particle collisions vs. the single rounds or semi-revolutions they are running now.
Once the smashing of particles gets started scientists are hoping they will identify the “Higgs Boson” or “God Particle”, named [...]
Interviews with geniuses
Genius is unique and often worth listening to when you have the chance. Enter the Seed Salon, a well designed website with a content populated by interviews from the likes of Naom Chomsky, Michel Gondry and David Byrne.
So yes, it’s one of those things that you should take the time and go peek in on. [...]
Anathem, worth the read?
I haven’t picked it up yet but may do so for the plane ride to Costa Rica. Here is a piece about the book:
From Steven Levy’s otherwise unsatisfying profile of Stephenson in the new Wired:
Set on a planet called Arbe (pronounced “arb”), Anathem documents a civilization split between two cultures: an indulgent Saecular general population [...]
Being an olympic diver
Ever wondered what it was like to stand on the diving platform at the olympics? Letting this interactive image load is worth the 30sec wait to see. Once loaded, you can click, hold and move the mouse to have the head rotation effect of your view. Pretty intense when you imagine the 17k people that [...]
Amazon Still Needs Saving
It occurred to me today that maybe in the midst of our current Global Warming focused world if we haven’t acutally lost track in some places of conserving the planet. It could very well be that I am speaking from my own microcosm environment and view with the limitations of what I see and know [...]
Heart Goes Out to Madrid
Plane crashes are one of the hardest types of loss as they stand in direct conflict to the emotions of adventure and connection with loved ones that often surround the experience. To have so many taken away so quickly can be difficult to consume for most with the lack of explanation or answer for why.
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