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Experimental Low-Calorie Diet Gets Puzzling Results in Monkeys http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/calorie-restriction-monkeys/ --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

The Sun Publishes Publishes Naked Pictures of Prince Harry http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/lauren-collins/2012/08/the-sun-naked-pictures-prince-harry.html --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

Let me start off by saying... you probably don't want this. You probably could get more for your money by say... eating it. But seriously! A $40 tablet from Newegg? Damn. I mean, sure, it's old and slow and has Android 2.2. And yes, it's made by a company mostly known for selling overpriced electronics to old people in the aisles of pharmacies. But... going to say it again: $40!! That's crazy cheap. For that price build some cool wall mount and use it as an alarm clock which you can stare down your morning email with. Seriously. $40. That's cheaper than a tank of gas. Ok - here is it. It ain't pretty. It ain't amazing. But it sure as hell is cheap. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858405005&cm_sp=Specials-_-58-405-005-_-08212012_1         … SYLVANIA SYTAB7MX Tablet PC ARM 11 (1GHz) 7" 512MB RAM, 2GB Flash Memory REFURBISHED   ( 4 )    |     Write a Review I...

Come on people. A company with no real revenue stream and no plans to have a real revenue stream being valued at over $100 billion. fail What the hell did you expect? The only people who have any excuse are those born after 2002. I may be wrong, but I think that means most people who bought into the Facebook IPO are freaking idiots. AOL Time Warner FTW!!!! We already had the dot.com bubble. What did you think would happen this time? Magic rainbows of quarterly earnings? Google 2.0??? Newsflash Gordon Gekkos - Google has a fountain of money called Search. It is literally the golden goose and the ONLY (and I do mean only) profitable division of the company. Everything else Google has done has been a financial failure. Funnily enough - investors care about financial performance (a reasonable rate of return on their investment?!?!?!?!? WHAT ASSHOLES. Oh wait. If you didn't get a return, why would you invest? It's all making sense now! Obama is an idiot, Fannie/Fr...

This is pretty amazing. Animals are not solar powered. Not directly anyway. When you need more energy (animals do all this moving around) you need to find a faster way of getting power. That typically means eating the things which get energy from the sun (plants). When you need even more energy you need to eat the things which eat the things which use the sun: i.e. what humans do (grass uses sun, sheep eat grass, we eat sheep.) Actually, the sheep are an interesting example. Sheep brains are far smaller than human brains--this should be readily apparent if you have had to deal with them before, they rank somewhere above rocks and somewhere below Jersey Shore cast members in terms of intelligence (a pretty small range mind you). To supply the energy they need for their brain on a daily basis - they need to eat a large plateful of grass, roughly the size of a dinner portion of salad (not too bad in other words). For a human to power his brain on grass you would need to eat about 40lb...

The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory - Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428920/the-emerging-revolution-in-game-theory/?ref=rss --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

J. S. Haldane who invented the gas mask World War I, spent time on the front lines analysing poison gases, he would rush to the scene whenever an attack was reported. Much knowledge of the effects of various gases came from Haldane shutting himself inside a chamber and breathing them, noting any physiological and psychological effects. J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane Born November 5, 1892 Oxford ,  England Died December 1, 1964 (aged 72) Bhubaneswar ,  India Nationality British Occupation B adass,  Mustache  Champion, Male Model He once taught his son (J B S Haldane)about the effects of gas by taking him down a mine filled with firedamp gas and had him recite Shakespeare until he passed out. That's some good parenting right there. The younger Haldane became an expert on the effects of deep diving and the problems faced when rescuing submariners. He used a Royal Navy-funded compression chamber to subject himself and numerous volunteers to nea...

The cool thing about standardizing on USB for power on the go is that it is the standard the world over. Today, a one-sale-a-day site has a cool deal up on eBay on Vivitar (a respected camera company) 1100mAh USB battery packs. For reference these are about 75% cheaper than you would find in a store. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vivitar-Instant-USB-Power-Charger-w-3-Power-Tips-/200804896066?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D1343194916403008528%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26#ht_2096wt_1209 Mouse over image to zoom   Sell one like this   Vivitar Instant USB Power Charger w/ 3 Power Tips! 1 1 Item condition: New Quantity: Limited quantity available /  243 sold US $4.99 Buy It Now Buy It Now Add to cart Add to cart      Add to Watch list ...

Iran dominated Olympic wrestling and weightlifting, but hardly compete in anything else. Herr is an interesting historical story as to why.   The Ancient Roots of Iran's Wrestling and Weightlifting Olympic Dominance - Max Fisher - The Atlantic

Pretty cool story... Amateur archaeologist finds possible pyramids using Google Earth By  Daniel Cooper    posted  Aug 13th 2012 at 8:43AM While most Google Earth hobbyists are satisfied with a bit of  snapping and geotagging , some have far loftier ambitions . Satellite archaeologist Angela Micol thinks she's discovered the locations of some of Egypt's lost pyramids, buried for centuries under the earth, including a three-in-a-line arrangement similar to those on the Giza Plateau. Egyptologists have already confirmed that the secret locations are undiscovered, so now it's down to scientists in the field to determine if it's worth calling the diggers in.

What I find hilarious here is that the UK has no separation of church and state, and they have obviously used that power to brainwash their citizens into believing that... oh... wait... it's the US where everyone thinks a tall skinny Scandinavian white guy with long hair got real busy only a few thousand years ago. The third guy? Definitely God.

This is hilarious... Puppy thrown at German biker gang A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said. The man drove up to a Hell's Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy. He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on a bulldozer from a nearby building site. He was arrested later at home by police. The 26-year-old is said to have stopped taking depression medication. After making his getaway on the bulldozer, he had driven so slowly that a 5km tailback built up behind him on the motorway. After driving about 1km, he had abandoned the bulldozer in the middle of the motorway, near Allershausen. He continued his journey by hitchhiking. "What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," a police spokesman said. The puppy is now being cared for in an animal shelter.

Want to set up a LLC? Want to wait for a month or two with endless delays, paperwork errors, pathetic excuses and widespread incompetence? I have a website for you! So - I recently went through starting a LLC using LegalZoom. While the registration of the LLC itself was none too difficult, achieving basic tasks like foreign qualification (to operate in states other than DE or wherever you set up the LLC) or registered agent services seem to be completely beyond the capability of LegalZoom to do efficiently. For example - I ordered a expedited foreign qualification order on July 2nd. It is now August 8th. After assuring me that it would be done in 10-15 days, LegalZoom sent in the first required document yesterday morning - to Delaware. We are talking about the first step - I am still two weeks away from getting my foreign qualification. So yes - LegalZoom will "save you money" upfront: they are cheap. But if you are say... trying to run or set up a business and have...

What I have generally liked about the Honda Accord is that it was always a little sportier looking, a little more angular than the Camry. It gave the impression (generally backed up by the hardware) that this family sedan could also have some fun in the corners. No longer. Wow. Bland has a new webster entry: Accord. To me, the car looks like nothing so much as the old Kia Optima And the hilarious part to me is that Kia, tired of being known for bland cars, came out with this instead:

Google doodles are now coming in game version. And I love it. https://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012 This little game is fun and a great 30 second break from work... here's to more mini games coming from Google =)