Eco Factor: Dale Vince to attempt electric land speed record.
Dale Vince, the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity, will be attempting to break the land speed record in an all-electric vehicle dubbed the Nemesis. The record currently stands at 137mph, which will be challenged by the wind-powered electric vehicle.
It looks as if we’re still waiting patiently for color e-ink to become a reality (at least in a mass produced shipping product), but if you’re kosher with low-energy consumption LCDs, Paradigm Shift has the ticket. Similar to Sungale’s Cyberus ID700WTA, the outfit’s 5-inch EER-051 and 7-inch EER-071WF are both e-readers with color, but neither boast e-ink displays. The former includes 1GB of built-in memory, an SD expansion slot, an integrated MP3 player and support for just about any kind of ebook file (non-encrypted EPUB included). The latter steps up to 2GB of memory, and thanks to the Windows CE operating system, it’ll also handle Office files and the like when it’s not flipping text. Both devices are expected to ship in February through Delstar here in the States, with the 5-incher available in a rainbow’s worth of hues for $149.95 and the big boy in black or white for $50 more. The full release is after the break.
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I first introduced you to www.menandcats.com last year when they were mentioned in a New York Times article. Now they have a new Men and Cats wall calendar featuring twelve of their most fabulous photos of men and their beloved felines. There is nothing better than a guy who loves his cat! (I will have to submit a photo of my own cat guy next year.)
OK, there is just one thing better than a cat guy–it’s the fact that all the proceeds from the sales of this calendar are going to support Partners United for People and Pets!
Get the calendar now at CafePress.com for just $20 and enjoy these fabulous feline fanatics year-round while contributing to a great cause.
Limbaugh reported he had lost most of his hearing due to an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing.
Two years later Limbaugh acknowledged he was addicted to pain medicine. He blamed the addiction on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.Limbaugh reported he had lost most of his hearing due to an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing.
Two years later Limbaugh acknowledged he was addicted to pain medicine. He blamed the addiction on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.
Limbaugh reported he had lost most of his hearing due to an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing.
Two years later Limbaugh acknowledged he was addicted to pain medicine. He blamed the addiction on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.
Limbaugh reported he had lost most of his hearing due to an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing.
Two years later Limbaugh acknowledged he was addicted to pain medicine. He blamed the addiction on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.
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Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition.
He was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week. The country club is next to the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
Limbaugh reported he had lost most of his hearing due to an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing.
Two years later Limbaugh acknowledged he was addicted to pain medicine. He blamed the addiction on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.
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TRENDS: Please enjoy the video below on a 10-acre micro eco-farm in Jordan – and note how it became self-sustained and in fact continues to make itself more abundant even when left on its own. And for even more on this topic, please see our friend and colleague’s article on Greening the Deserts. We don’t need GMOs to solve our drought issues. — www.MicroEcoFarming.com
Here’s hoping that Rush’s medical concerns are as minor those suffered by the young friend of the Obama family earlier in the week. Stay tuned.
The KITV report said that Mr. Limbaugh has been in the islands during the holidays, and had been seen golfing at a local country club next to the Kahala Hotel and Reso.
Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition.
He was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week. The country club is next to the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
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Although the daily trends on Twitter over the past year have often been silly or even obscene, hindsight has proven to be much more interesting.
WhatTheTrend has compiled a great overview of Twitter hashtags and trending topics. Their Twitter Zeitgeist 2009 gives us food for thought as we move into a new, hopefully less gaming-prone era of examining and measuring what real users are really talking about on the social web. Now, let’s talk about Twilight and Michael Jackson. Or, in the choose-your-own-adventure model of blog posts, you can skip to the part where we talk about tech-related trending topics instead.
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One of the most notable uses of any social network to date was the role of Twitter in the Iranian election/debacle/bloodbath. The U.S. State Department even made a call when Twitter was scheduled for maintenance downtime during the pursuant protests because the messaging service had proven so vital to the democratic process in that country. The worldwide buzz – and the sudden surge of green-tinted user icons and locations changed to “Tehran” – make #iranelection the number one Twitter trend of 2009.
In an interesting convergence between mainstream Internet use and high-tech geekery that only Google could engineer, Wave appears in the number four spot for top Twitter trends. And we have a pretty good idea that Twitter users’ out-and-out begging for an invite provided the bulk of that talk. As our loyal readers know, the ReadWriteWeb team is divided on whether Wave is a win or a fail so far, but there’s no doubt that this tech launch was one of the hottest this year.
In a stunning and welcome upset, #musicmonday pulled ahead of #followfriday, besting the well-known but spam-heavy hashtag by four places (Monday landed in the second position, Friday in the sixth). Is Follow Friday, a charming concept created with the most harmless intentions by our dear friend Micah Baldwin, simply a trend that has seen its day? Or is there something about taste-making and multimedia content curation that draws users to simply participate more?
Also, there are the films. New Moon, the second in the Twilight franchise, earned a number five spot in the rankings. We are grateful that our sole experience of these tweets are a brilliant collection of snarks from professional lampooner, newly minted TV pretty boy and TheOnion.com web editor Baratunde Thurston. Also-rans are Paranormal Activity, a horror flick that turned a $15,000 budget into around $80 million in box office receipts, and the latest Harry Potter movie. Finally, as a longtime Trekkie, I am happy to report that the new Star Trek film beat out Bruno by around 20 places in these rankings.
Both the Palm Pre and BlackBerry were mentioned in the top 100 trends, and one of our top ten international apps, Spotify, earned a number 63 spot on the list for consistent chatter and news throughout the year. Bing and Google Voice each earned a spot lower on the list, coming in at 81 and 100 respectively.
Finally, to nod graciously in the direction of our good-natured rivals at Mashable, their Open Web Awards were the 27th most talked-about thing on Twitter this year. For a topic that didn’t appear until mid-October (and for a topic generated by a tech blog, no less), this is a great measure of success for which Pete Cashmore and his team are to be congratulated.
To get the full list, send an email to the folks at WhatTheTrend.
Recently 50 appeared on Tyra’s show and divulged that they are friends again and that Fox will appear as his love interest in an upcoming video for Do You Think About Me.
He said, “She was really upset with me (after the break-up)…I called her. I said, ‘You got to stop fighting and be in my video.’ The song’s about when relationships don’t work, and when I explained it to her it kind of intensified what the song was about. And it’s now being a visual with the public seeing us as that relationship that didn’t work.”
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Coincidentally, President Barack Obama is also vacationing in Hawaii right now.
Of course, it didn’t take long for the “sensitive,” “tolerant,” “apostles of peace and love” on the Left to start throwing confetti and celebrating what they hope might be the demise of the King of Conservatism, Most Dangerous Man in America, the Doctor of Democracy, the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie.
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Jay Lichter wrote:
My list is brief, but the innovations that stood out for me in the past decade were first-in-class drugs that can treat or prevent major unmet medical needs.
1. Genentech’s ranibizumab (Lucentis)—The first treatment of its kind for the “wet” form of macular degeneration. It has high efficacy rates and low side effects, has saved vision for people with this common disease.
2. Novartis’ imatinib (Gleevec)—An effective and safe treatment for various leukemia syndromes, saving countless lives. It set off massive searches in the industry for kinase inhibitors like it.
3. Merck’s sitagliptin (Januvia)—The first-in-class DPP4 inhibitor for diabetes. It may be the last new mechanism for diabetes for a while.
4. Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals’ (erlotinib) Tarceva—An effective non-chemo approach to solid tumors.
5. Merck’s human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil)—The first vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer caused by HPV.
[Editor’s Note: As the decade comes to an end, we’ve asked Xconomists and other technology leaders around the country to identify the top innovations they’ve seen in their fields the past 10 years, or predict the top disruptive technologies that will impact the next decade.]
I recently found the Moka Express stovetop espresso maker by Bialetti on clearance at Target for only $20. I usually sells for around $29 at places like Bed, Bath & Beyond.
The Moka Express, along with my Primo Latte milk frother, have made for some really wonderful homemade (and affordable) cappuccinos. I like using nonfat milk.
How the Moka Express Works
You measure the water and pour it into the bottom of the espresso maker. The ground coffee beans go in the funnel-shaped filter. Place the pot on the stovetop. As the water fills the top part of the Moka Express, it turns into great-tasting espresso! (Read the instructions for more details and safety precautions.)
According to Bialetti’s website, the Moka Express is used to make more than 120 million cups of espresso each day. Bialetti also claims that the coffee produced is more aromatic and intense than American-style coffee. I’ll agree with that. Real coffee drinkers will gasp at this, but I think it makes a fine decaf espresso as well!
I can’t think of much I don’t like about the Moka Express. It allows you to make great espresso without a big machine that takes up a lot of counter space. It’s made in Italy of a food-safe aluminum alloy. The espresso maker can be used with a gas or electric range or an electric plate. However, you’d want to make sure the handle doesn’t hang over a source of heat.
The Moka Express is easy to clean and store. I’m not sure why Target decided to put them on clearance!
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Shock jock loudmouth Rush Limbaugh is hospitalized in serious condition in Honolulu this final Wednesday of 2009 after complaining of chest pains at a local resort.
Paramedics responded to a call for help at 2:41 PM at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, where the controversial conservative is vacationing, according to Hawaiian TV station KITV. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room when emergency crews arrived, sources say. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem.
Limbaugh, 58, who has more than 20 million listeners, was taken to Queen’s Medical Center. He is in serious condition. In 2003, Limbaugh underwent treatment for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone.
I really want to make 2010 the year of savings! Or should I say, the year of paying off everything!
But first, let’s get the list out of the way:
When I have the urge to spend and shop, I will just channel my inner Suze Orman:
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In a previous post we looked at how fast food is possibly far more safe than USDA provided school lunches. Neither are too healthy, but fast food at least has more rigorous testing in its favor. Still, even if you ignore the fact that meat in school lunches is questionable, there are tons of other reasons (pdf) why we need to provide better, greener, healthier school lunches for kids. Following are ways you can make sure your kids and other kids are getting the best school lunch possible.
If you have the means don’t purchase USDA provided lunches (at least until they improve) – pack a healthy green lunch instead. Many parents don’t have the means to do this though. In fact more than 30.5 million children are participants in the national free lunch program, and so some kids and parents have no other choice which means we still all need to advocate for healthy lunches.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: start at home. Your kids, even when they’re away from you can learn to make smart choices, if you get them on board with healthy eating at an early age. Talk to your kids about healthy foods vs. empty calories. Discuss organics. Tell them they don’t have to choose junk food and raise them with both food freedom and plentiful healthy choices around the house.
How you raise your kids does matter. I raised my son with food freedom and surrounded him with healthy options and he’s a very smart eater for an eight year old. When he’s with other people and I’m not around, he’ll still ask the adults for healthy foods like broccoli, water and organic apples. He’s primarily a vegetarian by choice and will happily choose veggies or fruits over candy or sweets on most occasions. I didn’t trick or force him to be like this, I just made sure he was raised with fresh healthy food choices around and made sure that I ate them too. It took very little doing on my part to raise a crazy veggie lover – and you can raise your kids this way too.
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It really is miraculous how within hours of birth, some mammals find their legs and learn to walk. They might be unsteady at first, but it doesn’t take long for baby horses and other newborn animals to appear as though they’ve been walking for years, not days. Many animals seem to progress so quickly, but we humans do not, and a new study tells us why.
This study began in order to determine what’s holding humans back. Many animals walk within days of weeks or birth, while it takes human babies approximately one year to get on their feet and begin to walk. After examining the gestation period, adult body mass and adult brain mass, researchers discovered that brain mass plays the biggest role in which mammals walk faster. Those with a smaller adult brain mass seem to begin walking earlier on. Why? Well, they haven’t gotten that far yet. But it’s what sets us apart.
Humans might take longer to get on their feet than many of their fellow mammals on land, but we’ve got our larger brain mass to blame, or thank.
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In domain name arbitration disputes, it often seems like the big name almost always wins — but apparently not always. Canadian search engine Groovle (which actually uses Google as its underlying technology) has won a domain name dispute with Google, as the panelists reviewing the dispute said that Groovle wasn’t simple enough to confuse people, and people probably thought of the word “groovy” or “groove” more than Google when they saw Groovle. This really is a bit surprising, since it’s pretty rare for the small players to win these sorts of disputes.
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If you’re an ambitious young tech entrepreneur with a compelling product hacked together and a slide-deck in hand, there’s always one giant elephant in the room to worry about.
That, of course, is Google.
The search giant has made a ton of product announcements this year, ranging from minor tweaks to major new applications. It even came out with a brand-new operating system. In doing so, Google left a lot of collateral damage. A lot of folks, from tiny startups with high-fallutin’ dreams to established industries, have found themselves in the path of the search behemoth.
Who did Google make cry this year?
The navigation companies: TomTom, Garmin, and TeleNav charge for mobile applications that offer turn-by-turn directions, often for a sizable fee. The TomTom app, for example, normally costs $100, though there’s a holiday discount cutting the price to $49.99. Then Google decided to get into the market, and its app wasn’t just a little cheaper — it’s free. In its IPO filing, TeleNav even acknowledged that this was a major risk. The one piece of good news for competitors is that Google’s directions are currently limited to phones using its Android operating system, but how long will that last?
And let’s not forget TeleAtlas: But this is for a slightly different reason. Google used to rely on TeleAtlas for mapping data, but it decided this fall that it would go it alone. Now Google relies on public data, StreetView and user-generated content, controlling the entire process. Google’s user-generated map efforts have been so successful that the company has been able to create street maps in developing countries where no professional ones existed before, like in India and Vietnam.
The cloud OS startups: Jolicloud and Good OS wanted to take advantage of the increasing interest in netbooks (the cheap laptops that are used mainly to access the web). They created operating systems that were dubbed “cloud OSs,” to reflect a shift away from applications on your computer and towards applications that run in the Internet cloud. Then Google announced its own operating system, Chrome OS, which is launching next year on select netbooks. And while Jolicloud said the news “validates” the market, this is one area where I’m betting startups will have a particularly steep uphill climb. I’m fine using a website from a company I haven’t heard of, but trust and name recognition mean a lot more when it comes to something as crucial as an operating system.
The real-time search contenders: We profiled about a dozen startups including Topsy, Scoopler, CrowdEye and OneRiot, that were competing to be the top gun in the emerging space of sifting and sorting real-time data. Google was relatively quiet in the beginning of the year, with co-founder Larry Page admitting the company had fallen behind on indexing content on a per-second basis. That raised a whiff of unspoken hope that either it or its arch-rival Microsoft’s Bing might make an acquisition in the space. Or that a young and hungry player with quality filtering technology could start attracting large audiences looking for real-time content. But by October, it became clear that Google was hard at work behind the scenes when it signed a deal with Twitter for the full firehose of its data. Then in December, Google unveiled its work, showing real-time search results that streamed down the page, Friendfeed style.
So what of the real-time hopefuls? Scoopler is shifting its focus to discovery and surfacing unexpectedly interesting real-time content. OneRiot is busy building an ad system against its results and trending topics. Both it and Collecta are putting their heads down and focusing on distribution with application programming interfaces and developer partners. Twitter, while maintaining a search engine, signaled that it wouldn’t try to monopolize the space when it signed distribution deals with Google and Microsoft.
Rupert Murdoch: Okay, the Australian media kingpin is definitely not a startup. But we’re throwing him on the list anyway because the empire he spent more than half a century building is not so impenetrable in the Internet age. He tried to kill the messenger, but Murdoch’s posturing and threat to remove News Corp. content from Google indexing only amounted to a few cosmetic concessions from the search giant. The company changed its first-click free program, which lets you read a page of walled content for free if you click through in Google search results. It now limits how much non-paying subscribers can access even more. Boo hoo.
The Google Wave team: Wave was ballyhooed as a product that would change the way we communicate, merging the best-of-breed qualities from e-mail, chat and collaborative technologies like the wiki. Created by the team that developed Google Maps, Wave was like a startup in its own right. The team was given a lot more leeway and engineering resources than other typical Google projects and was in Australia, far from headquarters. It sounded really cool in concept, and the buzz was insane, but then people actually tried to use it. Wave was clunky and confusing in practice.
Although its technical backbone was impressive, it was released before it had a well-designed user interface. Many users (including us) couldn’t even figure out why they needed to use it at all and gave up. That doesn’t bode well for the final product. So by overhyping Wave, failing to communicate how to use it, and inviting the public in too early, Google bungled its own dream here. To quote Nelson from The Simpsons, “Ha ha.”
And now let’s looks ahead to next year, Conan O’Brien-style. Here are some folks who need to watch out. Google has made moves that encroach on these startups, but it’s just too early to tell how bad the damage will be:
Bit.ly: The link shortening startup is still the kingpin in its space for now. It handles about 58 percent of shortened links that pass through Twitter, according to eminent retweet button maker Tweetmeme. But that’s down from above 80 percent earlier this fall as Google and Facebook launched their own link shorteners and custom-made ones took hold. Some of those custom-made shortened links might be Bit.ly-produced though, as the company launched a professional service for publishers like The New York Times. This gives Bit.ly a solid revenue source even if Goo.gl or Fb.me eat into their market share. But they need more media companies to jump on the bandwagon. Will it work? Stay tuned….
Milo: The shopping site sent consumers to local stores by pulling information about what was on the store shelves. The site attracted 1 million monthly users and some big-name investors to its site, but Google just announced that it’s gradually adding similar features to its Product Search. This is one case where I actually had a chance to interview the startup’s chief executive Jack Abraham about why his company won’t be crushed by Google. Basically, he said that when Google pits its search against a more focused startup, it usually loses — for example, Google Local search results versus Yelp.
Augmented reality browsers: Google stealthily launched an augmented reality product when it debuted Google Goggles earlier this month. It’s a visual search tool — meaning you can take a picture of the Eiffel Tower, Google Goggles will recognize it, and then search for it. Paired with GPS coordinates, that makes for a potentially powerful tool for navigating your physical surroundings. During the launch, the company showed off some basic augmented reality features. You can pan around and Google Goggles will overlay the names of businesses onto buildings around you. Although Goggles is imperfect and is still in Google Labs, that’s the essence of what could be the killer augmented reality app.
Most of what’s available on the market today can be very gimmicky, and not useful, like putting 3-D animations in your mobile phone’s viewfinder while looking around. Companies like Mobilizy, Tonchidot and Layar are trying to stay ahead of the game by encouraging developers to add layers of useful information to their augmented reality browsers. But if Goggles gets any better, they should watch out!
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When you are losing your hair or think that you are, you are not alone. There are millions of people who suffer from hair loss, hair thinning and premature balding. Do not be discouraged.
Rather than despair, you need to research to see what products are available that may help you. There are treatments available that you can do yourself at home, including some natural hair loss remedies that can help your scalp stimulate new hair growth.
HAIR LOSS TREATMENTS
There are many available hair loss treatments on the market that can treat this condition. Most claim to re-grow your hair and a few of them work better than others. You should do your research to find out what products have the best track record. Make sure the product you choose has testimonials from satisfied customers.
After you do your research and find a product that you want to try, give it a trial run. Make sure you know what the side effects, if any, are before you begin using the product. Avoid products that contain alcohol. Alcohol can be very damaging.
There are also some wonderful hair loss shampoos that can assist in your treatment. Go to one of your local beauty salons for assistance with this type of product. They will have the latest information and the best advice for these types of shampoos.
PROPECIA
Most people who are seeking a remedy for their hair loss agree that one of the best products on the market is Propecia. There are thousands of testimonials from satisfied customers who have used this product. Propecia is the only once-a-day pill that has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of certain types of male pattern hair loss.
The advantage that Propecia has over other hair loss remedies is that it selectively targets the hormone that causes hair loss without causing undesirable changes in other hormones. By doing this, it normalizes hair growth and reverses hair loss.
Since it is designed to work over the long term, Propecia needs to be used regularly for at least three months before you see an improvement. For long-lasting results, you must continue taking it. Once you stop using it, you will most likely lose the hair you have gained within one year.
If you have any questions or concerns, make sure you discuss them with your doctor. You should never make a decision to take any kind of medications without having as much information as possible.
Debra Gropp enjoys working on the Internet and writing articles. Her articles pertain to some of the subjects she is most interested in, ways to save money, hobbies, work from home information, and diet information. You may find additional information on Propecia here.
