Losing Weight: Wii Style!

Listener FTW! (Games, Health)

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http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/15/wii-sports-experiment-results

Six weeks ago, I began what has become a huge obsession of mine. It is called the “Wii Sports Experiment.”  I outlined a 6 week game plan for myself, the idea being that I would continue ALL normal activity and eating habits, and simply add 30 minutes of Wii Sports to my day. For the past month and a half, I’ve stuck to these guidelines very strictly.

And yes, it works out quite nicely for him!

Washington Post Buys The Onion

Listener FTW! (Random)

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http://pop.wizbangblog.com/2007/01/18/washington-post-buys-the-onion.php

Solar power eliminates utility bills in U.S. home

LowCommotion FTW! (Science, Tech)

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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-16T233801Z_01_N09381735_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOLAR-HOME.xml

His conventional-looking family home in the pinewoods of western New Jersey is the first in the United States to show that a combination of solar and hydrogen power can generate all the electricity needed for a home.

Strizki runs the 3,000-square-foot house with electricity generated by a 1,000-square-foot roof full of photovoltaic cells on a nearby building, an electrolyzer that uses the solar power to generate hydrogen from water, and a number of hydrogen tanks that store the gas until it is needed by the fuel cell.

In the summer, the solar panels generate 60 percent more electricity than the super-insulated house needs. The excess is stored in the form of hydrogen which is used in the winter — when the solar panels can’t meet all the domestic demand — to make electricity in the fuel cell. Strizki also uses the hydrogen to power his fuel-cell driven car, which, like the domestic power plant, is pollution-free.

why can’t we do this?

Life-Threatening Spam

LowCommotion FTW! (Internet)

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http://www.itsecurity.com/blog/20070112/while-phishing-gets-more-sophisticated-so-does-security/

If you’re in a certain income bracket, you might get an e-mail threatening your life. A new group of spammers, posing as professional hit-men, claim that recipients have been targeted for assassination and ask for up to $80,000 to drop the contract on their lives.

Chef fries meatballs in his own fat

LowCommotion FTW! (Food, WTF?!)

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http://www.slashfood.com/2007/01/16/shock-art-dinner-involves-unusual-ingredients/

Chilean artist Marco Evaristti has a different idea about what sort of fat will prodce great tasting results. Evaristti underwent a liposuction procedure and used his own fat to prepare a meal, a meal that merged shock art and haute cuisine.

The artist made 48 meatballs and fried them with the fat and served them to guests…

Corporate Hiring

LowCommotion FTW! (Work)

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two great articles on recruiters and hiring agencies.  if you’ve ever wondered what happened behind the scenes when you got hired by that huge company…

• http://www.ere.net/articles/db/73D187FDAFAD4C0F9BED53FE4C40E14A.asp
• http://www.ere.net/articles/db/673E3BDAD0E549DA875AA31E8BBC5EAD.asp

Mysterious samurai saves Police in UK

Listener FTW! (WTF?!)

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http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/209/articleID/18823/Default.aspx

A samurai sword wielding vigilante has come to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England.

Urban Dictionary: Manage Expectations

Listener FTW! (Work)

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corporate doublespeak for “we don’t want to do our best, so let’s make sure people think we’re doing our best without revealing that we’re not doing our best” — anything in which you have to “manage expectations” means you could probably devote more time and effort to making things better, but you just don’t feel like it

More Desktops for Chrome

Zombie16 FTW! (Art, PC Tech)

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Desktop it.

Protect your WordPress Blog

Zombie16 FTW! (Internet)

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Protecting the WordPress wp-admin folder