10.3.10
Winter Woes
Costa Rica Air
At the Hotel Costa Verde in Costa Rica, you can stay in the 727 Fuselage Suite, a salvaged 1965 Boeing that comes equipped with two bedrooms, a dining area, and ridiculous views of the ocean and jungle. I have spent a good deal of time in Costa Rica and I have never seen this, but when I go back there is no doubt where I will be staying.
Book Art
X-Ray Cast
http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=9442
25.2.10
Save your keyboard
Check out this DIY on how to save a keyboard with a stuck key.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fix-a-keyboard-key/
24.2.10
Consumerism is so fun
I have no idea why an old peanut butter jar can invoke so much nostalgia, but it does. So take a walk back to your childhood, or perhaps you great-grandmothers childhood. Either way it's a well spent stroll.
17.2.10
All things I do not need, all things that I do want!
http://www.peleg-design.com/products.php
French artist Baptiste Debombourg is a God among staples.
http://www.loudreams.com/2010/02/08/baptiste-debombourg-art/
11.2.10
AMAZING
In autopsies of people who died in car accidents, doctors have found microscopic cancers in 40% of woman (breast) and 40% of men (prostate). Something like 70% of older people have microcancers in their thyroid. But the cancer is harmless -- "cancer without disease." If you block angiogenesis the cancer can't grow. "It's a tipping point between harmless cancer and deadly one."
Li showed a photo of a poor dog with gnarly tumor hanging off its side. The vet gave the dog three months to live. They started antiangiogenesis drugs. In a few weeks, the tumor shrank away completely. They also cured a dolphin of mouth cancer and saw a complete remission of a deadly lip cancer on a horse.
Today there 12 different antiangiogenesis drugs available for people and dogs. They are quite effective for many cancers, but not much for liver, lung, and breast cancers. The problem with these cancers is that by the time they are detected they have progressed too far for antiangiogenesis drugs to do their work.
The good news, Li says, is that "we eat to starve cancer." Lots of foods contain naturally occuring inhibitors of angiogenesis, and many are even better than drugs for blocking angiogenesis (see image above).
Angiogenesis also plays a huge role in obesity. "Adipose tissue is highly angiogenesis-dependent." You can cycle the weight of mice by inhibiting and promoting angiogenesis. "We can't create supermodel mice -- it takes them to normal weight."
9.2.10
Nice 1930's Mod
Foreword by Ricahrd Swinburne:This scratch build case is inspired by the Art Deco stylings of 1920s and 1930s Zenith radios, but despite looking back so far in time for inspiration, it still has modern features such as integrated watercooling. Gary has hand cut, sanded and altogether modded a complete build using inspiration of the classic design as ground work. Without a bit of clever handy work (and without looking around the back) you probably couldn't tell this was a post-Millennium product.
We asked Gary to put us together a project log and he provided us with over 8,600 words of detail to go with the several hundred build pictures: for those of you who have a desire for detail: you've got it here! We'll pass it over to Gary now, so he can lead you through this feast of a magnificent mod.
http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/case-mod/2010/02/08/art-deco-zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod/1
8.2.10
A Book in a Book?
The TwelveSouth BookBook hides yours MacBook or MacBook Pro in the wonderfully scholarly disguise of an old fashioned book. Sitting on a coffee table, dorm room or desk, BookBook looks like a vintage piece of literature, not an expensive laptop.
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