Men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in their cars (as passengers or as drivers) had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised.
1 week agoEntertaining Lego felt tip printer. Love the little workers!
1 month agoSteve Jobs at D8, on the difference between PCs and the iPad:
1 month agoWhen we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people started to get into cars. I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
Less cluttered with fresher colors and shadowed lines to aid clarity.
In a world of mobile GPS and Google Maps, it seems increasingly logical to place stops in context vs. abstracted, angular subway maps used around the world.
2 months ago
Dancers Among Us is an ongoing collection of photos of NYC dancers in everyday surroundings. (via Kottke)
3 months agoAvoid aliens
In a series for Discovery, Hawking believes aliens would exist, but reckons we should lie low and avoid contacting them:
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
I couldn’t agree more. (via BBC)
3 months ago99-year-old woman gets the iPad. ”Although she has never owned a computer, she is now writing poetry on the tablet.” (via Cnet)
3 months ago