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31 December 2007

My Faves for Sunday, December 30, 2007

Quoted: Neurology: Tremor: Rest Parkinsons

[tags: pd]

Quoted: sections include: loss of the sense of smell, loss of smell as a sign of neurological disease, diagnosis and treatment

[tags: pd, health]

Quoted: To ensure economic stability, countries in South America, Asia, and and the Middle East peg their currency to the US dollar. As the dollar sinks to new lows, many countries are reconsidering their economic allegiance because it devalues and restricts their own currency, often resulting in inflation. Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have already taken steps to revalue their currencies. If enough governments decide to cut ties with the dollar, consequences could be serious: our currency would freefall.

[tags: politics, finance, currency]

From before the Spanish Conquest, cocoa and chocolate have been prescribed by doctors for a dizzying array of totally unrelated ailments and diseases, everything from dysentery (dissolve cocoa in water with a pinch of ground bones of your ancestors, as taken by the Aztecs) to “decayed health, weak lungs or scorbutic (relating to scurvy) tendencies” for which J.S. Fry & Son’s chocolate was recommended in the 1820s.

[tags: chocolate, health]

Quoted: A comprehensive Chocolate Glossary. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, is an online gourmet food magazine with 1000+ product reviews including gourmet chocolate, plus informative articles.

[tags: Chocolate, reference, CulinaryAdventures]

Quoted: Derron Brown plays 9 games of chess against some of the world's top chess players--at once!

[tags: video, games, chess]

Get on with it!

Quoted: Every Japanese game show clip you see instantly becomes the best one you've ever seen.

[tags: games]

Quoted: Global warming, pollution, dwindling natural resources and soaring energy costs are very much on everyone's mind these days. So it comes as no surprise that there is a strong investor interest in clean technologies, otherwise known as "clean-tech."

[tags: nanotech, solar, environment]

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30 December 2007

My Faves for Saturday, December 29, 2007

Quoted: DENVER, Dec 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A milestone report links long-chain (marine) omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) with the prevention of Parkinson's disease

[tags: disease, prevention, pd]

Quoted: In the 1966 science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, scientists are shrunk down to near-nano size and injected into an ailing patient to conduct repairs on his body from the inside.

[tags: Nanotech, health]

Quoted: At the climate change meetings in Bali, the small western Pacific island nation of Palau offered to be a testbed for space based solar power. Although the price of space

[tags: solar, space]

HFI technology is installed as an add-on to diesel and gasoline engines where it significantly reduces a wide variety of emissions (CO, PM, HC, CO2 and NOx) while simultaneously reducing fuel consumption. HFI units are being used by more than 150 fleets of long-haul transport trucks, ambulances, municipal buses and other heavy equipment.

Quoted: Online news, features and analysis

[tags: transport, environment, technologyen, EnergyTechnologies, automotive]

Le vélo solaire, équipé de panneaux photovoltaïques, permet à ses utilisateurs de circuler sans trop se fatiguer, et bien sûr sans polluer. Qui dit mieux?

[tags: solar, bike, transport]

Although Netscape was once a mighty pioneer in the world of internet browsers, it didn't take long for Microsoft's Internet Explorer to overtake it and squash its dreams of market dominance.

[tags: internet, browser]

[tags: apple, iphone]

Quoted: While we're just now struggling to get credit cards that pay wirelessly Korea's already moved on to the next stage

[tags: security, credit card, business]

Quoted: Watch Bugatti Veyron at top speed

[tags: speed, bugatti, automotive, video]

Quoted: http://ultramobilegeek.com I decided to test how fast and easy the Eee is out of the box. I am impressed.

[tags: video]

Quoted: How to setup Skype video out for the Asus Eee PC.

[tags: video, skype]

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29 December 2007

My Faves for Friday, December 28, 2007

[tags: lakota, indians]

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.

[tags: Lakota, indians]

Pajamas Media began in 2005 as an affiliation of 90 of the most influential weblogs on the Internet. They were linked together as an advertising network, but the intention was to provide a significant alternative to mainstream media.

[tags: media, alternative]

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28 December 2007

My Faves for Thursday, December 27, 2007

Quoted: Photovoltaic panels have a new design: concentric circles that focus the sun's rays on miniaturized modules. Having the panels automatically sense sunlight and turn towards it also makes these high-tech solar cells more efficient.

[tags: solar, video]

Quoted: A new material, nano flakes, may revolutionize the transformation of solar energy to electricity. If one researcher's future solar cells meet the expectations, both the economy and the environment will benefit from the research. Less than 1 per cent of the world's electricity comes from the sun because it is difficult to transform solar energy to electricity. But the discovery may be a huge step towards boosting the exploitation of solar energy.

[tags: solar]

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi. State media and her party confirmed her death.

Quoted: Khaleej Times, the No.1 English language daily newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

[tags: politics, Pakistan]

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27 December 2007

My Faves for Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Quoted: Director Robert Kane Pappas’ ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of Amer.... Oct 12, 2007.

[tags: video, media, news, propaganda]

Quoted: Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it .... Feb 12, 2007.

[tags: video, politics, business, banking]

Quoted: China's sky-rocketing growth and shortage of sufficient resources is forcing China to set its sights outside its borders in a frantic search.... Oct 4, 2007.

[tags: video, politics, US, China, oil]

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

[tags: environment, video]

Quoted: Steve Rubel explores technology and its impact on marketing communications.

[tags: google, search, trends]

With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

[tags: google]

Rotatable shutters mounted on a circular disk automatically open when directed into the wind, irregardless of the wind's direction. Pairs of upper and lower shutters are geared together.

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, wind turbine]

Quoted: Indian IT services giant Wipro is said to be in “hectic negotiations” with bankers over financing a deal to acquire uber-consulting firm CapGemini for $7 Billion.

[tags: google, CapGemini, consulting]

Quoted: 500+ Free Support Groups bringing people together to share support, treatment experiences, information, stories, and photos.

[tags: health, support]

With our help, you will lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Diet Television is not about quick fixes and experimental diet pills. After all, if the quick fixes worked, you wouldn't have any reason to visit this site - right? You don't have to be a rocket scientist or even a nutritionist to know that starvation diets, grapefruit-only diets, juice fasts, etc. are not lasting. The only thing that will get rid of that 5, 10, 20 or 50 pounds forever is a healthy lifestyle practiced each and every day.

[tags: diet]

Quoted: fatsecret is a place to find out which diets work. The contributions of fatsecret members will help you make better dieting decisions. fatsecret is independent and is a totally free site. Join now and unlock the secret.

[tags: diet]

Quoted: If you've just scored a brand new camera for the holidays and want to take some brilliant shots, Videojug has an excellent five-step walkthrough of the important elements of photography composition.

[tags: video, photography]

Quoted: SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. We don't actually host any files--we index what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. Our goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible.

[tags: music, search]

The team at SeeqPod is passionate about search and disocvery algorithms. So first we decided to apply some pretty sophisticated technology to Playable Search so that anyone, anywhere can mine the deepest crevices and corners of the Web for media that is publicly available, yet not always easy to find.

[tags: music, search, play]

Quoted: Download MP3s from your favorite web browser directly to your iTunes library from the right-click menu with freeware application Tunestor.

[tags: windows, iTunes, MP3, download]

Quoted: If you spend much time at a computer, chances are you've got a set stack of programs and documents that you need to run every morning when you get to work, or every time you need to tackle a certain task. But doesn't it seem like a lot of unnecessary work to open the same programs every day, navigate to the same pages, and open the same documents and folders?

[tags: windows]

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26 December 2007

My Faves for Tuesday, December 25, 2007

[tags: health]

Quoted: Learn the key strategies to prevent treat and slow down the progress of Alzheimer's disease including diet, lifestyle changes, and treatment options.

[tags: health]

[tags: mac, software]

Quoted: Your place for good, concise, Mac keystrokes, tips and tricks.

[tags: mac, keyboard shortcuts]

Quoted: So Santa left a brand new computer under the tree this year eh Lucky you If you're spending the holiday

[tags: windows, mac]

Quoted: Scientists have shown that mice suffering from a depletion of the antioxidant glutathione in dopamine-producing neurons developed nerve damage and symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) in humans. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter produced in the mid-brain which facilitates many critical functions, including motor skills. Past studies have shown that depletion of the naturally occurring antioxidant in the affected area of the brain is one of the earliest signs of PD, but this study shows that glutathione depletion may be a causal factor in the disorder.

[tags: pd]

The Michael J. Fox Foundation Funds DiaGenic's Development of First Parkinson's Blood Test

[tags: pd]

The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid concept car created by General Motors. However, the company has avoided the use of the term "hybrid," preferring to call it an electric vehicle with a "range extender" due to its design.[2] The vehicle is designed to run purely on electricity from on-board batteries for up to 40 miles (64 km) —which is a large enough distance to cover the daily commutes of most Americans, which is around 25 miles (40 km). With use of a small internal combustion engine hooked to a generator to resupply the batteries, the vehicle's range is potentially increased to 640 miles (1,030 km) on the highway. General Motors Corp. may build as many as 60,000 of its Volt electric cars for their inaugural year on the market, twelve times the sales of Toyota Motor Corp.'s hybrid Prius, for their inaugural year.

[tags: automotive, batteries, technology]

Leet (written as 31337, 1337, and l33t), or Leetspeak, is a written argot used primarily on the Internet, which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of shorthand.

[tags: internet, language]

Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related communities.

[tags: wiki, OLPC project]

[tags: solar]

Quoted: http://documents.google.com - Create and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.

[tags: video, google]

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)

[tags: aggregator, tracking, people]

Lovers know that dimming the lights can create a romantic setting.
But an emerging type of lighting called high-intensity LED uses shades of white and color changes to help create dozens of different moods, while using a fraction of the energy needed by today's lighting systems.

[tags: LED]

Quoted: It's dumb to test the Amazon Kindle by sitting at a desk pressing a lot of buttons The real judgment

[tags: ebook, amazon]

Technology for a Greener Future

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, environment]

Quoted: MagWind Magnetically Levitated Vertical Wind Turbine

[tags: wind, EnergyTechnologies]

Apparently it uses airfoils, similar to airplane wings, that surround the turbine's curved, vertical blades. The interaction between the airfoils and blades produces low pressure which actually accelerates wind flow.

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, wind]

Night-time travel is a necessary part of the busy world in which we live, but due to decreased visibility, traveling in the dark can be dangerous. The British have shed some light on night driving with the invention of the Astucia SolarLite flush road stud. The stud emits LED light, which is powered by small solar panels.

[tags: solar, led]

When Internet search major Google Inc decided to power its “Googleplex” in Mountain View with one of the largest solar panel installations in the world last year, it was a big vote for solar energy, which presently provides less than 1 per cent of the energy generated worldwide.

[tags: solar]

The energy captured by space-based photovoltaic arrays would be converted into microwaves for transmission to Earth, where it would be transformed into direct-current electricity.

[tags: solar]

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