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Tour de France

Neat article about the Tour de France. Specifically:

Consider the numbers behind the Tour de France: 21 days of riding; 2,110 miles; 5,200 calories burned per day; a peak of 1,000 watts output at any given moment (enough juice to run seven iMacs).

One thousand watts peak power output. Wow.

Fast Food

The Way We Eat Now discusses a number of issues with eating habits in America.

Articles by People Who Just Don't Get It

Via Slashdot: Kieren McCarthy of Techworld writes that Mac OS X is riddled with security holes. Select excepts:

• The five vulnerabilities "may allow hijacking, security bypass, data manipulation, privilege escalation, denial of service and system access". While we're dropping terms, Kieren, let's see if you can come up with a definition for each without Google.
• "In other words, it makes Microsoft's current Sasser problems look no more than a nasty nip." Right, when computers are randomly rebooting and causing capacity problems on corporate networks, we'll refer to it as a "nasty nip" from now on.
• "This strange habit of pretending a big problem is of no significance was also displayed last month" when the MP3 Trojan horse was released. And every time a company's products have security problems, especially one which has a long history of vulnerabilities. Hm.

Gaim Review

Ars Technica has a good review of alternative AIM clients for Windows. It echoes some of my complaints about Trillian, and gives a good rundown on Gaim.

Two minor points: The reviewer praises Trillian for displaying conversation history, but apparently didn't notice that Gaim has the same functionality in a vendor plugin. He also calls it "GAIM", which doesn't exist according to the Gaim developers (copyright concerns).

Bush's Meet the Press

I unfortunately don't often remember to watch the Daily Show, so thanks to Lisa Rein for this. (Via Boing Boing.)

KEXP, Listener-supported Radio

I think I originally found KEXP from someone's signature on Slashdot. The station is based in Seattle, but webcasts in many different formats. While I don't listen all that often, when I do I enjoy their programming. It's a nice break from the Clear Channel radio we can get over the airwaves in Gainesville. Best of all, the station is listener supported - check out this MSNBC article for more.

Grammar Funny

It's like they read my mind.

Matrix XP

Here's some good, new-fashioned Linux propaganda. You may have seen it before, but I hadn't.

PragDave

Interesting software development discussions at PragDave.

Violence

Interesting but short article on violence in the US.

Thirteen Monitors

Holy craaaaaaaaaaaaap.

Sun

I just lost a lot of respect for Sun Microsystems.

Aleph Null

Not Infinity! allowed me to finally understand the definition of aleph null. Yay!

$2 Bill

I figured most people had at least seen a picture of the $2 bill. Apparently not.

Language Fermentation

Here's an interesting article entitled Language Fermentation about strongly and dynamically typed languages.

iPod vs. Nomad

Comparison of the iPod and Nomad Jukebox Zen

Ugh....

"There's something wrong with the world today, and I don't know what it is ... ." (Yes, I quoted Aerosmith lyrics. No, I won't do it again.)

Public School

I finally went back to read Paul Graham's article, Why Nerds are Unpopular. Graham also put together a response to some common questions raised about his article, Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular. If you get the chance, you should also read The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto. Like Graham, I don't exactly believe that the public school system was meant to turn out the way it is now. There is definitely a problem with the system, and it seems many educators feel unable to change the system.

Funnay

This parody apology from Dixie Chick Natalie Maines is pretty funny.

Same Difference

I urge you to read Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim.

Scary

I don't even know what to say. I don't want to believe him....

s/attraction/indigestion/

"If you're anything like me, that look in her eyes isn't attraction. It's probably indigestion." ~ kraken on godfuckingdammit.com

POKEY THE PENGUIN

INFLUENCE OF GENETIC POLYMORPHISM ON SUBJECTS ABILITY TO INTERPRET POKEY THE PENGUIN

Security?

Oh, boy.

Comics

From Justine Shaw's recommended reading, I found The Guy I Almost Was, by Patrick S. Parley.

More Jewel Staite

Speaking of Jewel Staite, I found (through her official site) a cool picture of her with Red Robot (maybe not intentional). Avid has a bunch of other cool pictures.

Employment at Apple

"How Not to Get a Job at Apple"

SUVs

Bjorn Lomborg claims in his editorial, "The Environmentalists Are Wrong", that it is "[o]nly when people are rich enough to feed themselves [that] they begin to think about the effect of their actions on the world around them and on future generations". Makes me wonder why I see so many sport-utility vehicles.

Thinking

This is only slightly frightening:

"If you've got a good idea, keep it under your hat. That, or abstain from thinking altogether."

Marilyn Manson on Columbine

Marilyn Manson wrote an interesting article in response to being blamed for Columbine. I just ran across it again; check it out if you haven't read it.

Mouse

Eww. This guy found a dead mouse in his computer. Now, if only I could figure out why Windows is chirping at me.

Breastfeeding => Cattle Buggery?

Check this out: "'Our study also concludes that breastfeeding leads to sloppy kissing, drooling, teat fetishes, and cattle buggery.'", "Us True Christians® are the only people who can see Satan in just about everything, and it's our job to expose him, even if it makes us look ridiculous to the unsaved public."

So Young

This one is too funny to pass up.

Jeb!

Umm, right, like the government didn't screw up: "Until we recognize that the biggest issue here is the lack of wholesome love and family life in our state, to expect that the government can fill that void in a perfect fashion is impossible." -- Governor Jeb Bush

I Wish

"Punching is underrated as a mechanism of social control." -- chromatic

Segways

"It's much easier to ride this than walk," Officer Jennings Kilgore said.

SOAP

This guy thinks SOAP is silly.

AOL Time Warner

AOL Time Warner.

Ugh

This article makes me worry.

http://www.thecoolkids.org/tom/

Cool.

Lawsuits?

Now, us Americans can sue as an excuse for having fat asses. What is wrong with us?

VeriSign Problems

I'm not the only one with VeriSign issues.

Martha Stuart

As Tyler Durden put it, "Fuck Martha Stewart."

LEGO in Flash

LEGO Builder - really cool!

Baaa

"You're a sheep, content to be herded wherever these giants wish."

"When Elephants Dance"

"When Elephants Dance"

Trillian

Download Trillian.

Exploding Dog

I'll let this site speak for itself.

Leap Chair

Now imagine taking a Leap in the right direction. (It's the chair I am buying!)