Month: February 2006

This is just gross…

ABC News (Feb. 20) – Jasmine Roberts never expected her award-winning middle school science project to get so much attention. But the project produced some disturbing results: 70 percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water.

ollected ice samples from five restaurants in South Florida — from both self-serve machines inside the restaurant and from drive-thru windows. She then collected toilet water samples from the same restaurants and tested all of them for bacteria at the University of South Florida.

In several cases, the ice tested positive for E. coli bacteria, which comes from human waste and has been linked to several illness outbreaks across the country.

“These [bacteria] don’t belong there,” said Dr. David Katz, medical contributor to “Good Morning America.” “It’s not cause for panic, although it is alarming because what she found is nothing new. You’re not more likely to get sick now. But she’s done us a favor by sounding the alarm.”

Both Roberts and Katz said that the ice is likely dirtier because machines aren’t cleaned and people use unwashed hands to scoop ice. Toilet water is also surprisingly bacteria-free, because it comes from sanitized city water supplies.Your dog is laughing at you…

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Originally posted by Kevin Aylward from Wizbang

David Pescovitz:
Here’s a massive list “1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen.” Two examples:

Freeze a can of shaving cream and then peel the can away from the
cream. Put the canless cream into someone’s car. Let the oven-like
heat from the car’s sitting in the sun defrost the shaving cream.
2 cans will fill an entire car. (Coulter C. Henry, Jr.)…

Try taking a ping-pong ball and poking a small hole in it. The hole has to be tangent
to the sphere of the ball. When poking the hole use a pin and the pin should be almost
flat agianst the ball. Basiclly you want a hole in the side of the ball that will cause
the ball to spin. Submerge this ball into the liquid nitrogen and let it fill up.
Place the ball on a table and watch it spin. As the nitrogen goes back to a gas it will
rush out the hole and presto!! It’s pretty cool. If it does not spin try placing your
hand on it to warm it to get it started.

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Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

If you have ever seen a high definition signal, then we don’t have to tell you how absolutely gorgeous the picture looks.  Some of the best looking images we have seen to date are coming out of the Olympics in Torino as we speak.

Originally from Gear Live

Well so much for that…looks like NBC has forced that website off the air. Free Speech? Hmmmm.

Apple has long said it will do nothing to keep people from running XP on their machines, but this is sheer cynicism. It knows it can’t be done, and just grin and feed the rumour mill when you ask about it, or at least when people they deign worthy to talk to ask. Either way, while nothing is impossible, the level of surgery required to make it happen, if it is indeed possible, will never be something that a corporation will undertake.

Originally from osViews | osOpinion

Attention Deficit Disorder Coach Pete Quily thinks that ADD can be an advantage in a high tech career:

It seems to me ADD and the technology industry is a natural fit. The constant change of the high tech world can be stressful and troubling for some people but it’s often stimulating and energizing for the ADDer. A great source of Dopamine hits. Although, there are no specific statistics a number of other ADD experts I’ve talked to agree with my observation.

Though Quily doesn’t have data to back up his belief, it definitely rings true with me and my techie friends, who constantly joke that we all have ADD (even though it’s a serious condition.) Quily sees 10 advantages of having ADD in a high tech career, specifically:

1. The Ability to Hyperfocus.
2. Rapid Fire Mind.
3. Multitasking at Will.
4. High Energy Level.
5. Highly Creative.
6. Quick Learner.
7. Stimulus Seeking Brain.
8. Constantly Scanning your Environment.
9. Great in a Crisis.
10. Risk Taker.

Sound like anyone you know?

 
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