The discovery presents a great business opportunity. I am looking for a venture capital company to finance moon water extraction, bottling and delivery to earth. Next on the to do list - negotiate with the Michael Jackson estate to license his moonwalk moves for the Super Bowl commercials. This will be a smash hit.
Eric Fitz nick playing mitko in online chess. he will be crushed like bug!
When I saw it the first thing I thought was that Nick was supervising a shuttle launch. However, a careful inspection of his screen reveals nothing but a chess board. Dear Nick, this is an invitation to have your revenge this weekend. Are you up for it?
A cup has approximately 98.75 percent water, the rest is soluble plant matter. Wired Magazine has the complete list. Here are a few ingredients that bring back memories of my chemistry classes as well as help rationalize occasional excessive coffee drinking on my part.
3,5 Dicaffeoylquinic acid
When scientists pretreat neurons with this acid in the lab, the cells are significantly (though not completely) protected from free-radical damage. Yup: Coffee is a good source of antioxidants.Trigonelline
Chemically, it’s a molecule of niacin with a methyl group attached. It breaks down into pyridines, which give coffee its sweet, earthy taste and also prevent the tooth-eating bacterium Streptococcus mutans from attaching to your teeth. Coffee fights the Cavity Creeps.
On a somewhat relevant note, if you need a favor from me it is generally a good idea to ask for it over a cup of joe.
that make me happy.
Petya kindly invited me to join a chain of posts. I put down my list in google docs about a month ago and then forgot about it. So, here they are.
1. Coffee. Does not matter if the source is an espresso machine, french press or filter coffee maker. I crave the substance and I drink at least a few cups every day.
2. The return of Fake Steve Jobs. The funniest blogger on my side of the internet is back with the familiar tagline “Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?”
3. House MD. I count the days (42) to the premiere of season 6. I used to wake up at 4 in the morning to grab the latest episode from the torrent sites.
4. Stumbling upon a film I should have seen a long time ago but did not. The freshest one in this category is Martin Scorsese’s American Boy. The movie was actually never released to the broad public but this did not stop movie buffs to seek, watch and directly lift ideas from it. Certainly everyone reading this can recall Uma Turman snorting heroin and OD-ing in Pulp Fiction. The scene below has almost a one to one correspondence with a story told in American Boy.
I have no problem with the good directors borrow, great directors steal approach.
On another note, if you, for some freakish reason, have not seen Pulp Fiction - Get out of here right now! I will quote Marsellus Wallace about the situation your lack of curiosity for quality cinema entertainment has created.
Yeah, we cool. Two things. Don’t tell nobody about this. This shit is between me, you, and Mr. Soon-To-Be-Living-The-Rest-of-His-Short-Ass-Life-In-Agonizing-Pain Rapist here. It ain’t nobody else’s business. Two: you leave town tonight, right now. And when you’re gone, you stay gone, or you be gone. You lost all your L.A. privileges. Deal?
5. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. I find it extremely useful in making sense of web content. Check it out.
6. Not playing WoW any more. It is nothing less than triumph of my will power. Let’s see how long it will last…
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Jason Jones from the Daily Show goes to the New York Times headquarters. Here is one of the many hilarious exchanges he has with the print journalists there.
Jason Jones: What’s black and white and red all over?
Bill Keller: A newspaper?
Jason Jones: No, your balance sheets.
I was a big fan of pandora.com. The service provided a great way to listen to my favourite music and discover new appealing tracks based on sets of songs or artists. Then about two years ago it had to begin proactively preventing access to the streaming for most countries outside of the USA.
I had to switch to last.fm which I thought was slightly inferior in terms of suggestions. And now they are starting to charge €3/month for everyone outside US, UK and Germany. Thank you RIAA but no thanks!
Then yesterday a miracle occured. I opened pandora and it worked. It still does. I have not stumbled upon anything about a change in their policy and there is nothing on the website to suggest that. I am definitely not in the US - the gold-plated domes of Alexandar Nevsky cathedral are in my sight right now. So the only plausible explanation is that the Internet Gods are convincing pandora’s servers that my IP address is in fact American. They must love me.
1. Whether it would be a faux pas to ask Bush what nickname he had given me. I decided that it would.
2. What a great job my wife had done in making small talk about her childhood in Texas (her father had been a Republican precinct captain, and he had once hosted George H.W. Bush in his living room).
The resolution to the Freakonomics VS Marginal Revolution face-off is here.
My two favourite economics blogs are facing-off. In a Freakonomics post, Justin Wolfers shamelessly ripped off The New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest and asked readers to submit their preferred caption for a Bush/Krugman photo in the White House. Shortly afterward, Tyler Cowen challenged his Marginal Revolution readers to come up with better ideas. Then Wolfers made the rivalry official with this post. It included an offer for a side bet and a killer announcement:
we have a very special guest judge: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has agreed to pick the winning entry.
I wonder whether they asked President George Bush as well. Whose ego would have given up when determining the best caption winner? I am so excited I will not drink any more coffee today.
The Bush-congratulates-Krugman photo that started it all was first spotted on The Economist blog. You can submit your ideas to the first two links above.
