Exercise is not really a great way of burning calories. Run ten kilometres, burn 700 kcal. As a general rule, if you're not some sort of athlete or heavy manual labourer, exercise will make you fitter and stronger, but not thinner.

Well that's disconcerting.  Never really thought about it on a numbers level before.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Couldn't agree more sir. I might edit the middle part, "to buy things they think they want," instead though. Then again if this statement weren't true I probably wouldn't have a job right now.

[Via Consumerist]

[Via 52 Tiger]

Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.

I have been wondering about this for a little while now.  The tech industry is almost completely powered by VC investments.  Someone has a good idea, some rich guy/girl or group agrees and throws their money in for a percentage of ownership.  When Color received $41 million in VC funding the tech industry was in uproar.  That would be enough to make "Good Will Hunting" 4 times over or a little more than the budget for 2010's "Kick Ass".

This industry is in the prime position to be disrupted.  The funding is around. Customers are unhappy with the current industry.  Not to mention the incumbents are trying to ruin the internet.  The MPAA needs to go, and the ability to make that happen is within our grasp.

If the horse and buggy industry had the ability to lobby Congress and make internal combustion engines illegal they would have.  We cannot let dying industries ruin the future we intend to build.

[Via SplatF]

Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.

Couldn't agree more with Marco here.  Money might not buy elections, but it sure as hell can buy laws. Just look at the copywright law and how everytime Mickey Mouse is up to be public domained Disney pays millions, maybe even billions to extend the copywright.

Finance reform needs to happen and big business is going to use their large coffers to fight.  The only advantage we have is the numbers.  As the OWS protests have shown, people are fed up.

2. Take a break – Try to take a break every 15 – 20 minutes and get away from your computer screen. Try to do this as much as you can to avoid glare and eye strain.

So your genius fix for reducing glare on my computer screen is to stop looking at the screen then?

I'm going to save this article to show anyone that thinks they can't be a writer.  What crap.

Reminds me of this conversation.

[Via DF]

Update: Link to account featuring avatar mentioned previously

I'm not really sure why this stuff is so hard to find in the states and expensive if you can.  I guess we'll just have to import it from Germany instead.

The Yankees have agreed to a one-year contract with Hiroki Kuroda, pending a physical, tweets Jack Curry of the YES Network (Twitter link).  The deal will pay Kuroda $10MM, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney.

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