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Some Health Facts

• Q: I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong
  life; is this true?

  A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s
  it… don’t waste them on exercise. Everything wears out
  eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer;
  that’s like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving
  it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

• Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and
  vegetables?

  A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow
  eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is
  nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables
  to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good
  source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop
  can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of
  vegetable products. Read on…

Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo

Found on Slashdot: Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo.

In short, they’re installing piezoelectric circuitry in the floor.  Piezoelectric devices convert pressure to energy and back.  Squeeze them and they generate electricity.  Send electric waveforms into them and they vibrate to the pulses and make sound.  It’s what watches use for buzzers.  The system is going to be used to power ticket gates and display systems.  Here’s another article on it with more of a technical slant.

Two words:  Too Cool!

The Most Wonderfully Geeky Moments of 2008

From Asylum (I think they’re part of AOL):  The Most Wonderfully Geeky Moments of 2008.

I think it’s fair to say my qualifications for considering something geeky is a whole lot higher than the general populace, but if you give them a little leeway on that front, it’s a very enjoyable article.

I never saw this website before (I think I got the original link from Digg), but there’s lots of good stuff there, for people with a lot more free time than I have.

Your Boss Is Not Listenting To You

I heard of this article on the Howard Stern show today.  It’s from the New York Post, and it’s called YOUR BOSS IS NOT LISTENING.  Let me be the 824th to say DUH.

I find two things interesting about this article interesting:

1. The author lists quite a few reasons for why that should be the case
2. According to the URL, this is regional news. As if New York has the market for myopic managers all locked up.

20 Most Bizarre Mugshots ever

Compliments of Oddie, “A blog on the oddities of our world”, I bring you this post.

You will never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.  Enjoy.

This Is What Happens When You Mess With Geeks

The short version: An anti-piracy group in Lithuania that was threatening to sue all the BitTorrent websites for millions of dollars, changed their name, but forgot to buy the new matching domain name, and wackyness ensued when one of the larger BitTorrent sites in Lithuania bought the domain name.  A $20 mistake they’ll never make again

This article from TorrentFreak covers all the gorey details.  The best part is, there have been several cases in Lithuania of people buying domain names matching the names of large organizations who failed to do so, and in every single case where the organization tried to sue to get control of it, they lost.  As it should be.

How can a company that is totally focused on issues around the internet be so internet non-savvy?  Whether you think BitTorrents are good or bad, you gotta feel good about that aspect of the story/