No more left turns. Or is Nascar only left turns? I don’t know. Shows how much I know about stock car (like they’re really stock) oval racing.
Regardless, UPS is using routing software to keep their trucks from wasting time by idling while waiting for left turns.
Sleep.FM – social networking for sleeping. Well really alarm clocking. You can record custom wake up messages for friends, family, network. I know it’s changing more and more, but I don’t know many people out of college that sleep with a running computer next to their bed. Though I can see this being used by parents to send their college (and I suppose high school) attending slacker kids a nice wake up message or hell, even a “You should be studying” message at random times. And then of course this software would be quickly banished from all college computers because college kids are dumb, but not that kind of dumb.
The end conclusion doesn’t seem too surprising (though just to me, as I don’t hold fast to the concept of IQ), but Gladwell’s writing makes for an interesting and fun read.
Ketchup with everything helps fight heart disease.
I wonder if the UK has different ketchups. I don’t know how much 30g of ketchup (what the subjects consumed daily), but I know ketchup is a ready source of sugar in a diet.
This woman decided to go for the size 0 “ideal” size for a documentary about what it takes to get there. She tried it over 6 weeks. She basically fell into some eating disorders and crazy thinking about eating and weight loss. How quickly she fell into the thought patterns of eating disorders and such.
I’m all for women being comfortable with their bodies (limiting this discussion to women, because it was women discussed in the article), but for fat to be accepted as normal? Nope. I’m not down with that. Should women being face a deluge of unrealistic images of “perfect” bodied women? No. Should the be pressured to conform to that unattainable (for the most part) ideal? No. Should they be made to feel shameful about their bodies? No. Not in a bad sense. But should there be societal pressure for them to lose weight for HEALTH reasons? I think so. Maybe this makes me an asshole, but to just let fat be normal/okay, I don’t know about that. But this is definitely a bi-nodal thing. More and more obsession with celebrity and impossibly skinny people. But also an ever increasing focus and emphasis on health. Here’s to hoping health wins out.
Dissociation. It’s what I do when I run. I focus on a far off object. I time my breathing to my cadence (though I’ve also read that this is bad for various reasons). I tell myself to get there, then I just pick another target. I’m at my best when I’m aiming for something. I don’t think about the run. Just concentrate on my breathing, cadence, and target. However, the second part of the article about mental expectations is also true. If I plan on running X miles in Y time, I find myself pacing my energy for it. Like doing what my mind expects and nothing else. Not that I’ve run recently (being lazy these days, very very lazy).
I actually have no idea.
Push presents, a phenomenon I had no awareness of, apparently are a big deal. I vacillate between finding it utterly ridiculous and thinking it’s the right thing to do. I think an expectation of it is probably what puts me off, or perhaps the expectation of some sort of jewelry or something. Should the baby be enough? Yeah, I think so. Does that preclude some sort of gift? No it doesnt. Still, there are few occasions when I find it acceptable to expect a gift, birth of a child isn’t one of them.
I don’t know anything at all about programming, but if I did, I’d volunteer some time to pick up the torch.
An article about litigation regarding the use of color.