MV and beyond!

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Just came across Papaya, a file sharing utility app aimed at serving files directly off your mac (leopard). Instead of annoying P2P and bittorrent clients, you can directly share files with friends via http protocol from your mac.

The app works by serving the files, protected by password if you choose, from port 8080, or your localhost web accessible folder on your mac. users simply direct there browsers to the url you supply and viola, download and go.

http://lightheadsw.com/papaya/

Just saw the movie this weekend. Angela and I took my niece who’s 5 to a showing in Santa Barbara. I can’t recommend the movie highly enough. Not only was the story well thought out and executed in style, but the sound fx editors did an amazing job on what could be considered a semi silent film.

It goes to show you how a good story can really make a movie.

It’s Not!!!!!!

I give up on M Night Shymalan. Though I’ve always credited his ability to write a compelling story, I’ve also said that it should be kept to the shorts category. Long form is not his friend.

The movie was about as bad as it gets. Poor sound, visuals, coloring and worst of all… dialogue. The actors were bland and the plot was about as stale as it gets.

Don’t waste the money!

As some of you may know, plug in hybrids are coming to market in the next two years. Some have derided the hydrogen project and now the corn based alt’s due to exacting increases in food costs, but this new, or at least marriage of two older technologies might prove to get on the right track without the massive new infrastructure that some others warrant.

But in classic Bush style, the technology get a bump in funding by 30 million, which is as you might guess, a sour victory.

I just came across this article in Wired, check out the estimate to cross-grading to this technology at the bottom of the piece.

Wired_Article

Our trip to Italy was a little more then a vacation. We spent 13 days covering Rome, Capri, Florence, La Spezia, Chinque Terre and bck to Rome. However, in Florence the morning of the 8th of June, I got down on my knees and popped the question. And being the lovable man I am, she said yes… Ha

A company called Webon just released a website giving users the ability to create standards compliant websites using templates and drag and drop features.

So far, they’re not charging, and ads are kept off pages.

have a look at http://www.webon.com/

Just came across this… Pretty crazy and very informative

http://www.spotcrime.com/

For those of you on the web design tip, into css and php then Coda is your app.

www.panic.com

Just came across the macheist website and this page of very cool apps. All are under 30 bux and most boast great UI’s and functionality.

http://www.macheist.com/invites/

www.bitnami.org

Install stacks including development software and environments all in an easy 1 click install package. LAMP / MAMP, ruby and others

Mac / Apache / Mysql / Php

Finally found an easy way to download/upload files over the web.

www.net2ftp.com

A vital resource for free

Just came across an easy way to generate web 2.0 corners for web pages.

http://wigflip.com/cornershop/

The purchasing public looking to offset there guilt in large vehicle size can now opt for the “green” choice by purchasing a hybrid SUV. Though tempting, and obviously a smarter decision than sticking with the standard config, reports show that the increase in MPG is minimal.

I’m hoping that the fad of green goes a bit deeper than that

Just came across this, thought it might at least be helpful to some.