“Tea is said to have fueled the Industrial Revolution; caffeine has been credited with modern physics and chemistry. “A mathematician,” the prolific, nonsleeping Paul Erdos liked to say, “is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” – One Latte, Hold the Milk (NYT) On the subject of Espresso there is not consensus: “We could sit [...]
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Article in Silcon Alley Insider talking about “An interesting argument by Paul Sweeting on Content Agenda: Blu-ray needs to stop pretending it’s a revolutionary new format like DVD and start acting like what it is…a minor quality improvement that consumers won’t pay any more for. The first order of Blu-ray business for 2009 is an [...]
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I might not have mentioned the Wire on here in a long time, probably haven’t thought about it as often as I used to. So it came as a bit of a surprise a week or two ago I got a late night phone call from a friend of mine, who after having just a [...]
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File under random: So last spring I went to see the live via satellite show of This American Life (see earlier post), which I thought was very cool. Anyway, I was somehow fascinated by the way he would adjust all the little knobs on his DJ equipment. Since then everynow and then I grab with [...]
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“LeBron James tells The PDs Brian Windhorst he’ll consider signing extension with Cavs this summer” via LeBron James tells The PDs Brian Windhorst hell consider signing extension with Cavs this summer Cleveland, Ohio Sports News, Scores, Teams, Results & More – cleveland.com . While I’ll admit despite all the talk of LeBron leaving for New [...]
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This past week on This American Life (one of my favorite things of the week is listening to this) had a unique show: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes Instead of the regular “each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme” business, this week we throw all that [...]
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“It’s paid in a lump sum. Richard Kinder, the CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, gets his $1 dollar salary by check every January—that’s 93 cents, after deducting for state and federal taxes. via Is a $1 salary paid all at once or in 4-cent installments? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine . [...]
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Headed out west for a couple days tomorrow and figured I mention a few interesting things I saw recently, so just a hodgepodge post: Coldplay is being sued for copyright infringement for their song Viva la Vida by guitarist Joe Satriani, (see a YouTube video comparison) check out his much lesser known song in comparison [...]
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I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious. via Coffee – Niemann Opinion Art [...]
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The Cleveland Clinic plans to announce this week it has begun publicly reporting the business relationships that any of its 1,800 staff doctors and scientists have with drug and device makers. The clinic, one of the nation’s most prominent medical research centers, is making a complete disclosure of doctors’ and researchers’ financial ties available on [...]
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