items of interest to me and, possibly, to you.: Archive

Mozy Drops Unlimited Backups, Introduces New... →

What a bummer. I’ve recommended Mozy for years but will be dropping my subscription due to the substantial increase in price (I currently back up around 200GB). If you have any great online backup services to recommend, please shoot me an e-mail (i.hate.you.and.i.hate.your.blog.too@gmail.com).

Feb 1st

The First Impression | Psychology Today →

“Certain physical features consistently prompt our brains to take first-impression Polaroids with a distorting filter. People who have a “baby face,” characterized by a round shape, large eyes and small nose and chin, give off the impression of trustworthiness and naivete—on average, a false assumption. A pretty face also leads us astray: Our tendency is to perceive...

Jan 31st

Is Vat-Grown Meat Organic? | Discover Magazine →

I don’t really care about whether things are organic, but I welcome further discussion on whether cultured meat is vegan/humane. I think there’s a strong argument that it is ethically acceptable. This brief article hits a lot of the touchpoints: “Additionally, cultured meat doesn’t have a nervous system, so you can’t hurt it. It doesn’t have an immune system, so you don’t have...

Jan 31st

Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients... →

Really interesting article about an alternative approach to health care. Thanks to GD for the link.

Jan 31st

Dancing on Ice: Vanilla Ice suffers fall during... →

so… many… jokes

Jan 30th

Tracy Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →

Wikipedia provides us with Tracy Jordan’s filmography (I Googled to find a list of the posters in his dressing room while I was watching 30 Rock): Who Dat Ninja, where he plays an African-American ninja. Early episodes show the spelling in the poster found in Tracy’s dressing room as being Who Dat Ninga. Black Cop/White Cop (“One does the duty; the other gets the...

Jan 29th

Snowboarders' deadly month puts focus on safety →

“Beyond the theoretical solutions, the reality on the snow has been gruesome. At Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows during the Christmas-New Year holidays, a snowboarder, 25, was found dead in a tree well in wilderness adjacent to the resort. In Wyoming, also during the holidays, a 22-year-old snowboarder crashed into a mother and her 5-year-old daughter who were stopped on a hill, killing himself...

Jan 29th

Dan Bejar: rock's most reluctant lyricist - The... →

“What Bejar seems to be doing, more plausibly than anyone would have guessed possible at the beginning of his career, is fashioning himself as a sort of debonair lounge-lizard, a literate lech with a dubious worldview and a thousand stately ways to express it.”

Jan 29th

Shut up, NPR: "Why Bacon Is A Gateway To Meat For... →

“I can’t believe it’s 2011 and the media are still acting like bacon is the be-all, end-all of foods. “We even talked to vegetarians about this, and one said, ‘I have long thought if for some reason I ever started eating meat again, I would start with bacon.’” Wikipedia doesn’t accept one anonymous source as legit proof for a claim, and omitting the specific number of vegetarians you...

Jan 29th

Shop | Kana Jewelry →

Kind of neat personalized necklaces. Made in SF.

Jan 29th

SF SPCA To Offer Free Spay/Neuter Services In... →

“In conjunction with the event, San Francisco SFPCA will be offering free spay and neuter services for cats and dogs of San Francisco residents during the whole month of February.”

Jan 28th

Predicting the Future With Porn? | Fast Company →

“The most interesting of the nine experiments used pornography to test for ESP. Experimentees were asked 36 times to guess whether an image of “couples engaged in nonviolent but explicit consensual sexual acts” or a blank picture would show up on different sectors of a video screen. Subjects were able to predict the appearance of the pornographic picture 53.1% of the time—significantly...

Jan 28th

Food depression: Eating bad food may make you sad... →

“The people who ate the most trans fats, which are commonly found in pastries and fast food, had a 48% increased risk of depression compared with people who did not eat trans fats. Individuals who ate a lot of polyunsaturated fats — a healthier type of fat that is found in olive oil, for example — had a lower risk of depression.”

Jan 28th

Mobile Running App RunKeeper Pro Now Permanently... →

Jan 27th

Patti Smith writing detective novel | Music |... →

“Singer to follow award-winning memoir with mystery story set in London and inspired by Sherlock Holmes”

Jan 27th

This is How to Silence Enemies, Apple Fanboys or... →

Jan 27th

As Doctors Age, Worries About Their Ability Grow →

One third of doctors are over age 65? Kind of a scary article.

Jan 26th

Self-control in childhood predicts health and... →

“Thanks to their unique study, Moffit and Caspi have found that children who show high levels of self-control within their first decade of life do better in adulthood. Even after accounting for things like intelligence and social class, those who had a tighter grip on their behaviour as children are now in better health as adults. They’re also less likely to be abusing drugs, have a criminal...

Jan 25th

Neko Case is auctioning off her Mercury Cougar... →

It could be yours!

Jan 22nd

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