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Who Is More Human: PC Users or Couch Potatoes?
If you watch sports on TV, you should breeze through this. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to identify theme songs for sports shows. I only knew two of the themes, but I managed to get three of the questions right for a dismal score of 38%.
Won’t somebody think of the couch potatoes? By Thoreau I just saw a dumb anti-drug commercial with a mother walking into the bathroom, pulling back the shower curtain, and asking her naked and humiliated son what he knows about pot. It occurred to me that if drugs were legal we wouldn’t have to put up with these ads.
Image from The Green Microgym in Portland Seems unlikely, but it's good to see CNN writing about even the more green-washed ends of the sustainability spectrum: Couch potatoes will be horrified, but fresh advances in human-powered technology -- where users power appliances through their own motion -- could one day see a 'workout-to-watch' scenario become reality.
LG’s deal with Netflix to put streaming movies on some LG televisions shows that we are entering the AOL era of Internet television. We are going to see a lot of similar announcements from the Consumer Electronics Show next week as TV makers build walled gardens of hand-picked Internet- delivered video content for their high-end sets that resemble the early online services like AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe.
Source: b]AFP[/b] WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the alleged offenders in an annual report released Tuesday. The State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report showed China, which has rais.
Richard Falk (Photo: CEM TURKEL/AFP/Getty Images) I feel about human-rights violations the way U. S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart felt about porn. Forget all the moral parsing and conflict resolution jargon -- you just know them when you see them. That's why it's always puzzled me that the United Nations Human Rights Council has such trouble when it comes to calling a spade a spade.
Trying to reap the health benefits of exercise? Forget treadmills and spin classes, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may have found a way around the sweat and pain. They identified two signaling pathways that are activated in response to exercise and converge to dramatically increase endurance.
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images Over the past 10 days, print and broadcast media have tried to blame the pollsters, the campaigns, and even the voters for their own failure to read Hillary Clinton's overwhelming victory in New Hampshire. Now, scrambling for someone or something—anything!
If you search for Yahoo Microsoft, this page is the second hit. I like that of course. It' s generating a fair amount of flow, since the combination of Yahoo and Microsoft is a pretty hot topic. Keeping the topic going, I think it' s pretty amazing that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, but then again, which of all their web efforts has captured our imagination?
A surprising number of responses to my Algore piece Tuesday concentrated on the ex-veep's embonpoint, a common theme being that the guy is just too lardy to get elected. On the other hand: Derb -- just a thought, but I haven't seen Gore in the news in a while. This would make sense if he is slimming down to presidential weight, and wants to keep it a secret.
Well the Padres are in China. Let's see what's going on over there. I always thought that if an athlete blamed their steroid suspension on contaminated supplements that they were lying. Turns out they really are contaminated. You know who's contaminating them? China! Read for yourself.
THIS WEEKEND: It's going to be "all Horton all weekend" including mammoth Saturday kiddie matinees. Because not even Hollywood can screw up Dr. Seuss so completely that audiences stay away. But also thanks to big name actors voicing the characters and that big plug on American Idol (where Jim Carrey was an ass in an elephant costume).
These people certainly aren't couch potatoes! Brad and Angie take every opportunity (or they create every opportunity) to get out and see the world, even if the world outside their door is a rocky beach in the south of France. They braved the beach with their semi-local tour guide, U2's The Edge.
We're not really that extreme. Wait. we're on the internet and can be whoever we want to be. We're so fucking XTREME. When we skydive without parachutes into our kayaks, we always tape our adventures on the Oregon Scientific ATC5K camera! Sure, its 640 x 480 resolution at 30fps doesn't sound amazing, but it can withstand rain and snow while recording our adventures on an SD card.
One of the best parts of watching sports on TV is the theme music. Who doesn’t immediately think of football when they hear the opening chords of the Monday Night Football theme? We’ve picked seven classic sports themes- can you identify them? Take the quiz.
Way back when, the magazine Movieline was one of my many guilty pleasures. Aren’t we supposed to feel guilty about all pleasures? Oy. It was an irreverent mag for people who felt a little bad about liking pop movies. Apparently there weren’t enough of us, or we were the wrong demo for the advertisers, because Movieline became Hollywood Life, which was more interested in the lifestyles of the rich and boring than in teasing the people we had secret crushes on.
Four ways to jump start your Monday morning: Moisten fork prongs with mouth. Place end of fork between teeth, press prongs into nearest wall socket. Fill microwave-safe cup with water. Microwave for 2-3 minutes (times vary). Remove cup, pour contents directly onto eyeballs.
Couch potatoes may someday get their exercise in pill form. But don’t quit the gym just yet; so far it’s only worked for mice. Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything. It’s never too late to start developing them. Funny exam answers. Bluffing probably won’t earn you test points, but making your teacher smile is [.
Une dixième place aux Jeux Olympiques, il paraît que ce n'est pas si mal. Mais faut-il forcément s'en satisfaire ? C'est a peu près aussi inavouable qu'une inscription a une salle de musculation : j'aime bien les JO. Et surtout, j'aime bien que la France en revienne avec le maximum de médailles.