http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6397001.stm
Dr Mark Thomas, from UCL, said: “The ability to drink milk is the most advantageous trait that’s evolved in Europeans in the recent past.
â€Although the benefits of milk tolerance are not fully understood, they probably include the advantage of a continuous supply compared with the ‘boom and bust’ of seasonal crops, its nourishing qualities, and [...]
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8251
For $12.99, but its out of stock.
I was thinking of rigging something up for a waterer for my chickens – something that trickles normally, but shuts off a valve when their water container is full.
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Here’s that article that I was reading yesterday about bikes in portland –
http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/health/12/10/10bikeportland.html
I thought these two quotes were interesting:
In 1971, Don Stathos, a Republican state representative angry that his grandchildren couldn’t ride safely to school, penned the Oregon Bicycle Bill. That law set aside 1 percent of all state highway funds to build and maintain [...]
Just came across this today –
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/02/index_en.html
From 2003, but very interesting interview with Mike Davidson, Art Director for the ESPN website. In particular:
One other unique aspect of ESPN.com is that we have built in the ability to lay our front page out differently depending on how big any piece of breaking news is. Essentially, we [...]
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-is-netflix-saving-the-002416.php
So the total emissions from sending one billion DVDs to its customers is 320 tons (3,200,000 tkm x 100 g/tkm). Keeping in mind that those DVDs are also returned to the same facility we need to double that result to 640 tons of CO2 emissions. If Netflix wanted to offset this amount, which I hope [...]
I just saw this today:
http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/02/26/sharp-vga-touchscreenfingerprint-reader/#more-372
The screen will be used in cellphones and will add touchscreen and biometric sensor functions to them.
For more details:
http://www.unwiredview.com/2006/12/19/samsung-sch-v960-optical-joystick-phone-how-does-it-work/
Clever image processing algorithms allows to detect not only the placement of the finger but also the angle at which the finger is placed. Thus just by leaning the finger in particular direction [...]
Oh, The Environment.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2903813
Haven’t read this in entirety yet..
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070219fa_fact_mayer
A few years ago, Surnow received it as a gift from an Army regiment stationed in Iraq; the soldiers had shared a collection of “24†DVDs, he told me, until it was destroyed by an enemy bomb. “The military loves our show,†he said recently. Surnow is fifty-two, and has [...]
This is one person’s perspective on components of great customer service. I thought it was a nice perspective, and general enough – even though it’s focused on software.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html
1. Fix everything two ways
2. Suggest blowing out the dust
3. Make customers into fans
4. Take the blame
5. Memorize awkward phrases
6. Practice puppetry
7. Greed will get you nowhere
8. [...]
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-exotic-bottled-water-002401.php
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