Alex Bogusky: When I say don’t put your iPhone next to your head it’s not my opinion. It’s actually stated in the iPhone manual. My partner Rob Schuham recently sent me a blog post about the RF radiation and it mentioned that Apple, in the iPhone manual, suggests that you keep the phone 5/8″ away [...]
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Floating soccer pitch
Jason Kottke: Much of the village on the Thai island of Koh Panyee is actually floating; the island is too rocky to build much of anything on land. So when a group of kids wanted to start a soccer club, they built themselves a floating soccer pitch.
nvALT 2.0: it’s here – Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra: The long-promised 2.0 (yeah, I skipped 1.0.8) is finally here. Please download it here, as the application filename has changed to “nvALT” and Check for Updates won’t work properly. It also uses its own preference files and database now, so you’ll have to rebuild your preferences when you first launch it. I can’t tell [...]
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama | Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers, quoting Vonnegut: “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”
Vancouver Canucks Win the NHL 2010/11 Regular Season
A beautiful way to celebrate the Canucks’ 40th anniversary year: their first President’s Trophy ever. Congratulations, boys! Next up, the hard-fought path to Lord Stanley’s Cup.
Twitter Blog: So a bar walks into an app…
Official Twitter blog: Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today. We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar [...]
Behind the Scenes — The Brooks Review
Linked List I feel like I get asked questions about this daily. I try to respond the best I can, but here is how this works. Have you ever wondered how to get a Daring Fireball-style linked list using WordPress? Ben explains how he does it in this epic look at how his site runs.
Scientists find physical clutter negatively affects your ability to focus, process information | Unclutterer
Erin at Unclutterer: When your environment is cluttered, the chaos restricts your ability to focus. The clutter also limits your brain’s ability to process information. Clutter makes you distracted and unable to process information as well as you do in an uncluttered, organized, and serene environment. The clutter competes for your attention in the same [...]
Sedentary workers would benefit from standing up for their health
Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun: Sitting is the new smoking, experts say. That may sound alarmist, but a growing number of scientists and medical experts believe the analogy is not at all far-fetched. Recent research indicates that bouts of sitting -not just in front of the TV, but at work and at school -cause serious physiological [...]
President’s Trophy Curse My Ass! « jimmyslims
Tim LaHay: If history is any guide, the team that leads the NHL in regular season points is four to five times more likely than any other team in the playoffs to make it into the Stanley Cup finals, and seven to eight times more likely to win the Cup. My good friend Tim warms [...]