May 2013
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“Don’t give in, Tumblr. Yahoo ruins everything it touches!”
– Me, on a possible acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo.
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The Flyest Honeys (and Guys)
A site called misstravel.com polled 31,000 American women and 13,000 American men to determine the top 10 “sexiest” nationalities according to Gringos. Here are the results.
Brazilians place pretty high on both lists, while Americans, Spaniards, Swedes, and the French make appearances on both lists. I gotta say I agree with my brethren on Colombian women being in first place. Sofia...
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Poem Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou Artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat
They go very nicely together.
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Screengrab of infographic from weightlossfoodlist.com
Really? Oops, my bad! My servings usually look nothing like that, but it’s good to know.
This reminds me of an article I read about New York City implementing a bike-share program, like that of other large, forward-thinking cities, that is banning folks who weigh over 260 lbs from participating. The people behind the program argue that...
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20 Years of the WWW
On 30 April, 1993, CERN put the world wide web into the public domain. The first web page to be published has been restored to its original URL at http://info.cern.ch/. You can see a copy of the original web site here: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
It’s not much to look at by today’s standards, but its like looking back in time. It’s just plain HTML without...
April 2013
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True Story
When I was eleven, I had a friend named Ric. We did many of the things typical pre-teens do. We hit home runs in the street, we raced fast and furiously with our toy cars, and like many youngsters before us, we got ourselves into terrible mischief. One such time, however, we bit off more than we could chew.[[MORE]]
One day at Ric’s house, when we had nothing to do, we thought it would be...
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Global Rich List →
Cool. This site tells you how wealthy you are compared to every other person on the planet. For example, if you earn the median per capita U.S. income of just over $27,500, you’re in the top 1.4% of the richest people in the world. Likewise, if you earn minimum wage in the U.S. ($7.25/hour), you’re still in the top 7% of the richest people in the world.
Find out how you stack up...
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#MusicMonday
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7 Reasons Positive Emotions are Good For Your...
laughter makes blood flow more freely
hugs release oxytocin and remove stress from the body
when you meet someone that your heart goes crazy for, your heart gets a workout
spending time with a loved one lowers blood pressure
love letters may lower blood cholesterol
holding hands calms nerves
a positive attitude lowers the risk of heart attack
-Frank Lipman, MD
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“bag, saw the guy, looked right at me”
– the note Chris Bauman, Boston Marathon bombing victim, wrote while in intensive care after the explosion took both his legs.
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that mexican white girl: I remember being a... →
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I remember being a freshman and sophomore in high school mariachi and wanting to give up. Not because I couldn’t do it but because the upper class men were so mean and hateful. I remember the note they wrote to the most awkward boy in the group confessing my “love” for him. I remember the printout one of them had in her binder that said I was a cocky little fish that thought I...
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A Review of The Hobbit
Well, I finally got around to watching the Hobbit this past weekend. I was put off from watching it when it came out because, among other reasons, the reviews were bad. I didn’t like it for the following three reasons.
Filler, and lot’s of it. It definitely felt like they added an awful lot of padding to turn what was originally planned to be two movies into a trilogy. Some of the...
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Trolling a Troll
The other day I was browsing Buzzfeed and found this gem of an article. It features an incredibly spoiled and bratty teenager who calls himself “lavish” with an interesting Instagram feed. He is, as Buzzfeed puts it, the worst teenager on Instagram.
This kid needs to be slapped. He uploads photos of his extravagant lifestyle, then goes and calls his followers peasants and treats them...
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How Fat Are You?
It’s no question, we’re all getting fatter. Some more than others. How do you know just how “fat” you are? Easy, you use the body mass index formula. Using the metric system, BMI = mass (kg) / (height (m))^2, or in English units, BMI = mass (lb) / (height (in))^2 x 703.
These equations lack adequate formatting. If they’re confusing, you can see them on Wikipedia...
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It Wasn't the Butler
Have you ever thought about what the major causes of death were during the 20th century? Of course you haven’t! Why would you? That’s just weird. Well, I have. And guess what? It wasn’t the butler!
Some weirdo uploaded a public spreadsheet (link below) onto Google Docs that shows estimates of what these causes were. Check out the summary:
So, overall, disease is enemy #1, and...
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March 2013
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An Internet Minute
New York ain’t got nothing on the internet. According to some figures published by Intel, more happens on the internet in 60 seconds, especially on the social web, than even the wildest of New York minutes. Here’s a summary:
6 new Wikipedia articles published 100 new Linkedin accounts 1,300 new mobile users 47,000 app downloads 61,141 hours of music listened to on Pandora 83,000 $ in...
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Netflix's ISP Speed Index
Netflix is pretty great, but if your internet connection doesn’t give you the bandwidth needed to stream video without interruption, you might be better off going to Redbox.
Netflix has indexed the largest internet service providers and ranked them according to average download speeds. The ISPs rank as follows:
What exactly does this mean for us who watch video online? Well, the...
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WatchThe Bath (by Youth Lagoon)
I couldn’t find this on Soundcloud, so Grooveshark to the rescue.
I found this track off YL’s new album, Wondrous Bughouse. I love YL’s dreamy, ambient sound. It’s very deep. Trevor Powers, AKA Youth Lagoon, explains:
“Youth Lagoon is something so personal to me because writing music is how I sort my thoughts, as well as where I...
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WatchYup. If you’re normal, you hate your commute to and from work. That’s because for most of us it means 25.4 minutes of having to share the road with all kinds of morons. It could be worse though. Some poor schmoes commute for upwards of 50 minutes, twice a day, 5 days a week. Yikes!
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Wearable Computing is on Its Way
Google and Apple are both working on wearable computing devices expected to hit the market soon. Google’s Glass should hit stores sometime this year with a $1,500 price tag, according to a post by The Verge’s Joshua Topolsky. Apple is reportedly working on an “iWatch” with few details available other than the usual Apple rumors going around the blogosphere.
I can see why...
February 2013
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A Dog By Any Other Name
I love dogs. Judging by how popular dogs have been as pets in history, we can safely say most people love them too. However, we seldom stop to think about the names we give to our dogs and where they come from. It turns out our beloved pets’ names have evolved much faster than our own.
In Europe during the Middle Ages, we wouldn’t find find a Fido anywhere in sight. Back then, dogs...
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NFL Fandom According to Facebook
With over 35 million team page likes, the NFL is one of the most popular sports on Facebook and off-Facebook as well that matter.
Sean Taylor, some cool geek I don’t know, has analyzed Facebook “likes” and other data to create maps that show what teams people root for in general, and the teams they rooted for during the playoffs.
The following map shows team fandoms by region....
January 2013
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What Happened to All the Crime?
“Everything keeps going from bad to worse.”
Surely, you’ve heard someone say something like that before. Well, you may not believe me if I told you, but violent crime in the US is actually trending downward. According to FBI Uniform Crime Reports, violent crime in just about every category has been declining for over 20 years. The table below, courtesy of the FBI, shows...
“Ordinary North Koreans live in a near-total information bubble, without any true...”
– This is an excerpt from a website published by Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google executive Eric Schmidt, in which she writes about the details of their recent trip to North Korea.
It’s an interesting read if you’ve got the time.
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“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness”
– Frédéric Chopin
To-Do
I have compiled a list, not quite a bucket-list, but a to-do list of things I intend to do sooner rather than later.
Learn French- I want know the three main languages of North America: English, Español, and Francais. I’ve already got the first two down, but the third one is a slippery bugger.
Travel- I want to see another continent. Europe is a good place to start because I have family...
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Have the Time of Your Life
Everything you do, everything you eat, every step you take, every breath you take—well, forget the last two—has a net effect on your lifespan. According to professor David Spiegelhalter and his team at the University of Cambridge, the things we do on a daily basis, like sitting, exercising, smoking, and consuming fruit, alcohol, read meat, and other stuff all either add or take away a few minutes...
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I knew my blogging would pay off someday. My first article written for The Go Guide is out now in the January 2013 issue. Check it out.
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