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What are the rules for calling shotgun?
we can sum up some key points. It goes without saying that “Shotgun!” must be said loudly enough so all other passengers can hear it. The caller must be outdoors when shotgun is called (no exceptions). And shotgun is voided when the driver’s significant other is a passenger. Try calling “shotgun” over someone’s girlfriend and we guarantee disappointment as well as a long walk home.
In my previous job, my co-workers and I used to eat out pretty much everyday, and calling “Shotgun!” was a big deal -_-;; I’m not sure why, but nowadays, I couldnt’ care less about sitting in the back seat; sometimes I prefer it (like the bosses in Korean soap operas, heh).
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Find Music You’ll Love - Pandora
This is a nice service if you don’t already have online music streaming (like YME). You enter your favorite artist or song, and it streams songs that best match your taste based on their “Music Genone Project” (it seems to be pretty accurate for me so far). UI is clean and friendly (it’s in Flash though, sorry tsl :-)
Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution
Last.fm goes one step further by scrubbing songs you listen to (using extensions to many music players) and constantly updates your taste. It also lets you create and listen to your custom internet radio station based on your taste. At first few glances, Last.fm is more refined than Pandora.. it also has the social-networking aspect, so you can discover new songs based on someone else in your contacts. Pretty cool~ Only downside of Last.fm that I see is that unlike Pandora, you have to install Last.fm player (which is not that bad considering most music service requires the same). And despite all the additional features, lot of people seem to prefer Pandora over Last.fm.
With these great free services, it’s going to be hard to justify paying $ for online streaming service…
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YouTube - Trampoline Bear
Bear in tree + trampoline x traqualizer = Comedy
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I submitted my photo to The Power to Inspire site because they promised to donate $1 to Lance Armstrong Foundation for every photos uploaded. It seems like they’ve photoshop’ed the US Postal logo off my jersey though. Funny.
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Wired 14.03: 4 Steps To Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is the technique behind movies Waking Life and upcoming A Scanner Darkly Watching Waking Life can be little nauseating because of the fluid movements, but I didn’t get that feeling when watching preview clip of A Scanner Darkly. Maybe they have improved the technique.
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Eight Principles of Food and Health, from part 3 of The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell
- Nutrition represents the combined activities of countless food substances. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- Vitamin supplements are not a panacea for good health.
- There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.
- Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or expressed, and nutrition plays a critical role in determining which genes, good and bad, are expressed.
- Nutrition can substantially control the adverse effects of noxious chemicals.
- The same nutrition that prevents disease in its early stages (before diagnosis) can also halt or reverse disease in its later stages (after diagnosis).
- Nutrition that is truly beneficial for one chronic disease will support health across the board.
- Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected.
Then he goes on to talk about why these kinds of information has not been available to wider public — he mostly blames industry lobbyist and corrupt scientific organizations. I stopped reading because rest of the book seem like pretty obvious facts…
So, how did this change my life? Well, I’ve been advocating to my families and friends to cut down animal based food intake… especially to my mom, who has a heart condition. I, myself, have switched from drinking Cortado (espresso+steamed milk) to Americano (espresso+hot water). And for breakfast, I drink a large cup of steamed soy milk. (Those of you who know me, I had soy-milk allergy. But I overcame it by keep drinking it. Yay!) I didn’t have to change my diet drastically because I was a “semi-vegetarian” to begin with :-) I think I do pay little more attention to the quality of food I eat now, but am not too picky about it. In-n-Out Cheeseburger and extra-cheese pizza every once a while is still a-okay for me!
Previous Posts:
The China Study
The China Study, Part I
The China Study, Part II
Here’s the song that’s been stuck in my head today. I found it on “Like Bloc Party” play list. Their other songs aren’t as good, unfortunately.
Update: Woot! Watch the video on YouKnowWhere
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Here’s an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas - New York Times
Interesting article. Sounds like a great way to foster innovation within an organization, and also have fun while at it. There’s something similar at Y! but I feel that once an idea is submitted, subsequent processes become opaque to employees and either lose traction or become forgotten.
an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement. These proposals become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion lists and e-mail alerts. Employees buy or sell the stocks, and prices change to reflect the sentiments of the company’s engineers, computer scientists and project managers — as well as its marketers, accountants and even the receptionist.
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Most companies operate under the assumption that big ideas come from a few big brains: the inspired founder, the eccentric inventor, the visionary boss. But there’s a fine line between individual genius and know-it-all arrogance. What happens when rivals become so numerous, when technologies move so quickly, that no corporate honcho can think of everything? Then it’s time to invent a less top-down approach to innovation, to make it everybody’s business to come up with great ideas.
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Should file this one under “Obvious” category. Is Dubya impeached yet? :-/
Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says - New York Times
The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Mr. Hussein.
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V for Vendetta: a great movie. You’d think a protagonist behind a mask wearing cape would look pretty silly, but it was not bad. While watching the movie, I was constantly reminded of Bush’s War on Terror, the Patriot Act, Secret Wiretapping by NSA, Culture of Fear, etc… and how much our freedom and liberty in society have regressed in recent years for the name of “National Security”. It raises some very important questions, but I didn’t think it pretentiously tried to force feed any answers to any. It’s just an action flick afterall.
Also notable was the preview for the upcoming Keanu Reeve’s movie, A Scanner Darkly. Directed by Richard Linklater, it has the same style (animation painted over live-action) as his previous movie, Waking Life (which is one of my favorite movies). It’s based on a story by Philip K. Dick (Paycheck, Minority Report, Total Recall, Blade Runner, …) so the story is most likely to be solid.
And on the way out, I saw a poster for The Promise (무극), starring Jang Dong-Gun (장동건). The preview looks quite impressive.
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What does your phone number spell?
Pretty cool~ Doesn’t work well if there’s a 0 in your phone number though.
(via Digg)
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