Science Says High-Fructose Corn Syrup Is Pretty Much The Worst Thing Ever

Science attempts to de-mystify orange drink

Sci­ence attempts to de-mystify orange drink

The title pretty much says it all.

In addi­tion to caus­ing sig­nif­i­cant weight gain in lab ani­mals, long-term con­sump­tion of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnor­mal increases in body fat, espe­cially in […]

The Story of Bottled Water

From the ani­ma­tors who brought us The Meatrix, Store Wars, and The Story of Stuff, comes a new chap­ter in The Story of Stuff saga: The Story of Bot­tled Water.

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If you haven’t already watched the 20-minute long “Story of Stuff” you should.  It’s pretty good, and the pay­off in […]

My new wallpaper « Mark Goetz

HA!

Every time i have to sit through a pow­er­point, i want to kill a kit­ten! But Tufte is a bit more hard­core than i am.

UPDATE:  Con­grats, BTW, to Tufte on his new gov­ern­ment appointment!

via My new wall­pa­per « Mark Goetz

Video: This is easily the coolest thing I've seen an iPhone do this week.

Ummm… Yeah. I have no idea how this works. Which nat­u­rally makes me immensely curi­ous about the whole thing.

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via Video: This is eas­ily the coolest thing I’ve seen an iPhone do this week.

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MacUpdate Bundle worth it for Parallels 5

mupromoMacUp­date has a soft­ware bun­dle up with 10 apps for less than the retail price of a sin­gle app! A la the much-disputed MacHeist. The MU bun­dle may be worth it for the $20 break on my new fave vir­tu­al­iza­tion soft­ware : Parallels 5.

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Make: Online : Adult Fans of Lego - a Blocumentary

AFOL stands for Adult Fans of Lego accord­ing to Brick­wiki.  And now AFOLs have their own documentary—er,  blocumentary…

If you ever played with Lego, then you will enjoy this.

Heck! If you even just know what Lego is then you will still appre­ci­ate this 30 min­utes of nerdery.

http://www.vimeo.com/9581676

As an added Lego-bonus, check out Gizmodo’s exclu­sive tour of […]

A stupid simple WordPress eCommerce plugin

Word Press e-Commerce Plu­gin a Word­Press Shop­ping Cart Plu­gin by InstinctWP ecommerce plugin

Look­ing for a no muss no fuss ecom­merce plu­gin for WordPress?

This looks to be the one.

I had tried eShop on a pre­vi­ous site and found it to work OK. The dif fer ence to me, […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from March 11th through March 18th:

Same­point Social Con­ver­sa­tion Search Joel Brock | Social Men­tions –This one comes to me via my Google Alerts. It’s a social con­ver­sa­tion search engine, show­ing you not only where­abouts on the inter­net your name appears, but also […]

Tools I like very much

I’m a dab­bler.  Always dab­bling.  I have no qualms about hand­ing over my user­name and pass­word to any webapp that looks use­ful / worth 5 min­utes of my time.  As a result i have A LOT of mem­ber accounts all across the inter­net.  Most of these new sites or ser­vices get tossed aside, either […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Feb­ru­ary 16th through March 9th:

Neil Dawson’s Horizons

Neil Dawson’s Hori­zons « We got more bounce in Colum­bus. –Car­toons invade the third dimen­sion. This sculp­ture makes delight­ful games out of real­ity.
My City vs. […]