Bioavailability: How to Get More Nutrients from Your Food | Wise Bread

I like this sim­ple post with nutri­tional advice for upping the bioavail­abil­ity of your comestibles.

Quick tips:

Phenol-rich bev­er­ages such as cof­fee or tea inhibit iron absorp­tion from oth­er­wise iron-replete foods like spinach, chard, or eggs (all break­fast sta­ples in my book).
Black pep­per is always deli­cious.  And turns out, it also improves […]

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I get real juiced up going to con­fer­ences and hackathons and such.  The energy of work­ing side-by-side with gifted indi­vid­u­als, and the accel­er­ated learn­ing that goes on swells up my brains and fuels my ambi­tion engine.  Plus camp is awesome!

In Novem­ber I’ll be get­ting my fill for […]

XKCD “music video” pays homage to one of the greats

This makes incred­i­bly nerdy blog post no. 2 for today.  But i am a big fan of XKCD, and this lit­tle musi­cal video does a nice job ani­mat­ing some of the themes of the strip.

The music is by Olga Nunes, the film is based on this par­tic­u­lar strip.

Enjoy.

The CIA is reading your Facebook page. Do you care?

google_ciaThe invest­ment branch of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, has just started pour­ing money into a Vis­i­ble Tech­nolo­gies, a soft­ware firm the spe­cial­izes in fil­ter­ing the inter­net.  Vis­i­ble pro­vides cus­tomers with a feed of whats being said about.…anything, online, right now.  Cus­tomers put in a few key­words and […]

The last musical instrument you will ever buy

alpha-bigFrom what i can gather, the Eigen­harp is the future.  In all it’s Franken-instrument glory.

Not that i real­is­ti­cally expect to start see­ing these things around Thom Yorke’s neck any­time soon, but this cutting-edge instru­ment is truly bridg­ing the gap between dig­i­tal and ana­log music per­for­mance.  I […]

Art & Science: Two great tastes…

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What could this image be?  A sketchy Van Gogh ren­der­ing of a hay­field at dawn-light?  Per­haps?  A pho­to­graph of a 10-year old prepa­ra­tion of bar­bi­tal, fenace­tine, val­ium, and acetic acid?

Well, if you chose the lat­ter then give your­self a gold star…

A pho­tomi­crog­ra­phy con­test spon­sored by Nikon compiles […]

What I’m into: today

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from today.

50cycles bike acces­sories — Spook­light USB rechar­gable Wire­less Bicy­cle Safety Indi­ca­tor, brake light and iPod recharge –

The ulti­mate in touch-sensitive, USB-compatible, iPhone-friendly, recharge­able, bike safety. Kinda cool, i want it in a way that annoys me.

Did Cook­ing Give Humans An Evolutionary […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Octo­ber 6th through October 14th:

Sta­tus Address Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox –

A handy FF plu­gin that makes the sta­tus bar (at the bot­tom of the browser win­dow) obso­lete. Sim­ply dis­plays a link URL in the loca­tion bar rather than the status bar.

WheresMyCellPhone.com […]

OS haX: Undocumented, inaccessible, and incredibly useful

As enjoy­able as Apple’s soft­ware is to use, they like to make us work.  Hid­den below the sur­face of most Apple soft­ware are hun­dreds of undoc­u­mented lit­tle “switches” which can be turned on to enable new sooper-seekrit fea­tures.  By the same token, these switches can be dis­abled to remove […]

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This appeals to me on so many lev­els.  Hon­estly, i don’t know what else to say.

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