The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!

This is a great gimmick! This site sells bunches of 10×10 pixel squares and put your ad images on there with links to whatever, sort of virtual billboard. With $1/pixel, the guy has already made more than half-a-million dollar! Some of the clients claim that “site traffic increase over a hundred-fold”

Scott has suggested that we undercut the competition and create $999,999, 99-cents per pixel! LOL

(Thanks Scott)
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The Secrets of Longevity @ National Geographic Magazine

Funded in part by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, scientists have focused on several regions where people live significantly longer. In Sardinia, Italy, one team of demographers found a hot spot of longevity in mountain villages where men reach age 100 at an amazing rate. On the islands of Okinawa, Japan, another team examined a group that is among the longest lived on Earth. And in Loma Linda, California, researchers studied a group of Seventh-day Adventists who rank among America’s longevity all-stars. Residents of these three places produce a high rate of centenarians, suffer a fraction of the diseases that commonly kill people in other parts of the developed world, and enjoy more healthy years of life. In sum, they offer three sets of “best practices” to emulate. The rest is up to you.

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Yahoo! News started producing Yahoo! Exclusive contents (it’s a media-company afterall), starting with Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. The new Richard Bangs Aventures follows one man’s quest to conquer the North Face of Eiger, thought to be one of the toughest climbs in the world, which claimed the life of his father 40 years ago. Quite inspiring read… and extremely good multi-media.
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Can you believe squares labeled A and B have the same shade of grey? See the proof here.
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Ftrain.com

Distraction is necessary. Minds need to wander to get anything done. But the Internet is sort of the mental equivalent of the snack aisle at a convenience store, filled with satisfying fatty chips and tasty cream-filled cakes. God knows I’ve spent enough time with both the Internet and cream-filled cakes to see the similarities.

Pretty good article (more like a vent) on distraction in modern working environment. He talks about 2 types of distractions: narrow, and wide. Narrow is series of things that come up in a line of thought vs Wide is the “regular” distractions that we know (emails, IMs, ads, …) I can relate to many things in this article.. I’m sure most of you do :-P
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This is a test post from Flock — new “Social” browser based on Firefox.  Some of the nice features I think that I might actually use are:

1. “blog-this”: sort of like bookmarklet supported by most blog apps… but WYSIWYG editing… and
2. with “shelf” area where you can drag and drop texts and images that you might think you might blog about later.
3. Online bookmarks (or favorites) with del.icio.us integration.  It would be really nice if it had MyWeb integration…Blogging tool seems quite buggy.  It’s a “developer preview” afterall..

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