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The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Its true...soda does cause kidney problems.
LINK
It is well known that too much soda can increase the risk of diabetes and obesity. But when it comes to kidney problems, is there a difference between colas and other kinds of soda?
Colas contain high levels of phosphoric acid, which has been linked to kidney stones and other renal problems.
Much of this conclusion stems from anecdotal and circumstantial evidence. So last year, a team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health took a closer look.
In
a study published in the journal Epidemiology, the team compared the
dietary habits of 465 people with chronic kidney disease and 467
healthy people. After controlling for various factors, the team found
that drinking two or more colas a day — whether artificially sweetened
or regular — was linked to a twofold risk of chronic kidney disease.
But drinking two or more noncola carbonated drinks a day, they found, did not increase the risk.
The
authors of the study say more research is needed, but their findings
support the long-held notion that something about cola — the phosphoric
acid, for example, or the ability of cola to pull calcium from bones — seems to increase the risk of kidney stones, renal failure and other conditions affecting the kidneys.
THE BOTTOM LINE
There is good evidence that cola beverages can increase the risk of kidney problems, more so than noncola sodas.
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Dos and Donts with Babies
Here’s a handy collection of infographics to help new parents with caring for their baby. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Update 1/24/08 by Alex - It’s from the book Safe Baby Handling Tips by David and Kelly Sopp - Thanks Christopher!
Don’t Miss This New Article on Neatorama: The Wonderful World of Early Computing
Posted on January 24, 2008 at 12:29 pm by Miss Cellania
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Vintage, Collectibles, New & Used... The coolest stuff downtown Los Angeles
SouthPark Flea Market
Vintage, Collectibles, New & Used... The coolest stuff downtown.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
I Love LA for its WEED ATM's
World's First Weed ATM
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Free Open source application for sharing large files
AllPeers : Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want!
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Free 5 minute international calls
I Call Free is profitable thanks to the publicity that is showed in the sides of the form of calls.
This Service is denominated MashUp
Limitations
This Services has a limit of 5 minutes per call, and 3 calls for each
IP, To obtain more calls, you had to disconnect from internet and
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To obtain more calls, you had to disconnect from internet and connect again, then, you can call again every time you want.
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VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
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VLC media player 0.8.6d
* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
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Free CD DVD Burner
CDBurnerXP: Introduction and News
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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8 Websites to Help You Travel and Live Rent Free
Caretaker’s Gazette
Woofing
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House Carers
Organic Volunteers
(http://www.organicvolunteers.com)
Couch Surfing
Global Freeloaders
(http://www.globalfreeloaders.com)
Servas
Hospitality Club
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8 Tools to Help You Travel Forever and Live Rent Free
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
New Gmail features for iPhone
FDA Concludes that Meat and Milk from Clones of Cattle, Swine, and Goats, and the Offspring of All Clones are Safe to Eat
FDA Issues Documents on the Safety of Food from Animal Clones
After years of detailed study and analysis, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals. There was insufficient information for the agency to reach a conclusion on the safety of food from clones of other animal species, such as sheep.
FDA today issued three documents on animal cloning outlining the agency's regulatory approach – a risk assessment; a risk management plan; and guidance for industry.
The documents were originally released in draft form in December 2006. Since that time, the risk assessment has been updated to include new scientific information. That new information reinforces the food safety conclusions of the drafts.
In 2001, U.S. producers agreed to refrain from introducing meat or milk from clones or their progeny into the food supply until FDA could further evaluate the issue. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will convene stakeholders to discuss efforts to provide a smooth and orderly market transition, as industry determines next steps with respect to the existing voluntary moratorium.
The agency is not requiring labeling or any other additional measures for food from cattle, swine, and goat clones, or their offspring because food derived from these sources is no different from food derived from conventionally bred animals. Should a producer express a desire for voluntary labeling (e.g., "this product is clone-free"), it will be considered on a case-by-case basis to ensure compliance with statutory requirements that labeling be truthful and not misleading.
Because clones would be used for breeding, they would not be expected to enter the food supply in any significant number. Instead, their sexually reproduced offspring would be used for producing meat and milk for the marketplace. At this time, the agency continues to recommend that food from clones of species other than cattle, swine and goat (e.g., sheep) not be introduced into the food supply.
An animal clone is a genetic copy of a donor animal, similar to an identical twin, but born at a different time. Cloning is not the same as genetic engineering, which involves altering, adding or deleting DNA; cloning does not change the gene sequence. Due to their cost and rarity, clones are intended to be used as elite breeding animals to introduce desirable traits into herds more rapidly than would be possible using conventional breeding.
Risk assessment
The risk assessment finds that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and food from the sexually reproduced offspring of clones, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals. The science-based conclusions agree with those of the National Academy of Sciences, released in a 2002 report. The assessment was peer-reviewed by a group of independent scientific experts in cloning and animal health. They found the methods FDA used to evaluate the data were adequate and agreed with the conclusions set out in the document.
The risk assessment presents an overview of assisted reproductive technologies widely used in animal agriculture, the extensive scientific information available on the health of animal clones and their sexually reproduced offspring, and an assessment of whether food from clones or their sexually reproduced offspring could pose food consumption risks different from the risks posed by food from conventionally bred animals. These conclusions were first presented in draft documents over a year ago. Since then, the agency has updated the risk assessment with data that became available, as well as taking into account comments from the public comment period.
"After reviewing additional data and the public comments in the intervening year since the release of our draft documents on cloning, we conclude that meat and milk from cattle, swine, and goat clones are as safe as food we eat every day," said Stephen F. Sundlof, D.V.M., Ph.D., director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. "Our additional review strengthens our conclusions on food safety."
Risk management plan
The risk management plan outlines measures that FDA has taken to address the risks that cloning poses to animals involved in the cloning process. These risks all have been observed in other assisted reproductive technologies currently used in common agricultural practices in the United States.
FDA is currently working with scientific and professional societies with expertise in animal health and reproduction to develop standards of care for animals involved in the cloning process. Although the agency is not charged with addressing ethical issues related to animal cloning for agricultural purposes, FDA plans to continue to provide scientific expertise to interested parties working on these issues.
Guidance for industry
The guidance for industry addresses the use of food and feed products derived from clones and their offspring. It is directed at clone producers, livestock breeders, and farmers and ranchers purchasing clones, and provides the agency's current thinking on use of clones and their offspring in human food or animal feed.
In the guidance, FDA does not recommend any special measures relating to the use of products from cattle, swine, or goat clones as human food or animal feed. Because insufficient information was available on clones from other species, e.g., sheep clones, to make a decision on the food consumption risks, the guidance recommends that food products from clones of other species continue to be excluded from the human food supply. The guidance states that food products from the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed for food are suitable to enter the food and feed supply.
For more information, visit http://www.fda.gov/cvm/cloning.htm.
Jessica Hupp Gathers 50 Apps That Fit on a USB Drive
Development
Edit code wherever you are with these handy tools.
- Vim: The Vim text editor has lots of features that are great for source code editing, like file comparison, regular expressions, and GUI mode. It’s also highly portable, working with even obscure platforms.
- Dev-C++: This integrated development environment is much like Microsoft Visual Studio, except that it has DevPaks that offer additional utilities, libraries, and templates.
- Server2Go: With Server2Go, you’ll have access to PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Perl.
- Notepad++: Notepad++ is a free source code editor that offers an efficient binary as well as a customizable GUI.
Graphics
Edit graphics, create animations, and view images on the go with these pocket graphics apps.
- Anim8or: Anim8tor, though small in size, is packed with loads of features and tools. It also has plenty of easy tutorials for modeling and animation.
- IrfanView: Using this image viewer for Windows, you can view, edit, and convert image files, as well as play some video and audio formats. It even supports formats like Flash, MP3, and MPEG.
- ArtRage: ArtRage, a bitmap graphics editor, is great for use on tablet PCs. Available mediums on ArtRage include oil painting, pencils, and tools that offer textures and other special effects.
- Inkscape: Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application that runs on nearly any operating system, making it a great tool for using on unfamiliar computers.
- FastStone Image Viewer: Use FastStone to view images, manage thumbnails, and perform various image editing tasks.
- Blender: This 3D animation program can be used for a number of different uses, including modeling, rendering, and animating.
- GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program is used to process digital graphics and photographs, and even create basic GIF images.
- UnFREEz: Coming in at a tiny 19.5 kb, UnFREEz just might be one of the smallest apps ever. Using this tiny GIF app, you can combine a series of images to create an animation.
Documents
Have your office with you wherever you go with these portable document applications.
- Open Office: This office suite works on a number of different operating systems, and offers document functionality in word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and more.
- Foxit Reader: Take this small, fast PDF viewer with you wherever you go to avoid having to use Adobe Acrobat.
- NoteTab: This text editor offers the option of a tabbed document interface, making it easy to manage multiple documents at once.
- Scribus: The Scribus desktop publishing program offers layout and typesetting as well as the ability to create PDF forms with animations and interactive functions.
- RagTime: Using RagTime, you can create documents in spreadsheets, word processing, HTML, and even AutoCad files.
- TextPad: The TextPad app offers easy text creation and editing, as well as helpful features like a clip library.
Internet
Get the Internet the way you want it with these portable browsers, chat programs, and email applications.
- Firefox Portable: Take your Firefox, with all of its bookmarks, plugins, and extensions anywhere using Firefox Portable.
- ChatZilla: Get this IRC client, and you can chat on any platform that has a Mozilla web browser, like the aforementioned Firefox Portable.
- Google Talk: You can use this application for VoIP and instant messaging on nearly any Windows machine.
- Portable Thunderbird: Using this portable email app, you can keep your email, address book and settings right in your pocket.
- PuTTY: This little gem is a terminal emulator that can act as a client for a variety of protocols, like SSH and Telnet.
- Pidgin: Use Pidgin, a multi-platform IM client, to enjoy encrypted IM discussions.
- XeroBank Browser: This internet browser has Tor access built in, so you can stay anonymous.
- Adium: This Mac OS X instant messaging client can be used with AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and many more messaging services.
- FileZilla: Use FileZilla, a very popular cross-platform FTP client, to share and remotely access files.
- Trillian Anywhere: Take Trillian, a multiprotocol IM application, anywhere using this app.
- Portable Bookmarks: Keep all of your bookmarks on your flash drive with Portable Bookmarks.
- uTorrent: With uTottent, you can buse BitTorrent while using minimal computer resources.
- Gaviri PocketSearch: This file management software makes it easy to locate files across all of your devices.
- Miniaim: Get around instant messaging restrictions with this minimalist AIM client.
Multimedia
Get mobile media functionality with these awesome tools.
- Audiograbber: Extract audio from CDs and convert into a number of different formats like WAV, MP3, and WMA.
- DeepBurner: Take this CD/DVD authoring program on the go to burn discs and ISO images.
- VideoLAN: This software plays video and other media formats on the go.
- REAPER: This digital audio workstation uses very light resources and can currently be used on Windows, with Mac OS X soon to come.
- MediaCoder: Use MediaCoder to batch transcode, compress, or convert audio and video.
- StationRipper: With StationRipper, you can record audio from podcasts, Shoutcast, Last.fm stations and more, all with iTunes integration.
- Audacity: Edit digital audio on the go and on a number of different platforms with Audacity.
- Winamp: Use this popular, skinnable media player for music and more on the go.
Security
Ensure a secure workspace, or just help Grandma get spyware off of her computer using these portable security apps.
- KeePass: Carry your password safe around with you, and rest assured that your information is encrypted.
- Ad-Aware: Take this popular adware zapper on the go to find trouble on any computer you might be using.
- ClamWin: Use ClamWin to scan for viruses on a Windows machine with the Clam AntiVirus engine.
- Eraser: Make sure you’re safely deleting files when you leave a strange computer by using Eraser.
- RoboForm: This program won’t just manage your passwords, it will also fill in web forms for you.
- HijackThis: Find and destroy malware with this freeware spyware-removal tool.
More
Get even more use on the go with the USB apps.
- Universal Extractor: Extract files from any archive, anywhere.
- Converber: Make easy conversions on any computer with Converber.
- Launchy: This program locates programs to launch based on a user search, making it easy to launch anything from games to an internet browser.
- DOSBox Portable: Play around with your USB stick, and enjoy classic DOS games on the go.
GearLive Shows Us Sandisk SSD Drive Technology used on new MacBook Air
Many companies showed of Solid State Disks (SSD) at CES, but none so cost effectively as Sandisk. As usual Sandisk is bringing a product to market that beats the price of it’s competitors while still not skimping on features. SSD drives are an effective way to increase performance and battery life on notebooks without requiring re-engineering. Available now in a variety of capacities and price points - look for them in stores or devices soon.
Here's how to get the show:
|Download| - iPod-formatted H.264
|Download| - Apple TV High Resolution
|Download| - MPEG-4
MacBook Air So Thin ou Can Store It Anywhere
Air so thin?
MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
So many innovations.
So little space.
The incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of numerous size- and weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard drive to strategically hidden I/O ports to a lower-profile battery, everything has been considered and reconsidered with thinness in mind.
Built for the
wireless world.
MacBook Air is designed and engineered to take full advantage of the wireless world. A world in which 802.11n Wi-Fi is now so fast and so available, people are truly living untethered — buying and renting movies online, downloading software, and sharing and storing files on the web.
Apple- MacBook Air
Johnnie Walker presents 5 contemporary cocktails specially selected for their sophistication, versatility, and taste.
Red Label Collins
1.5oz JWRL
2oz sour mix
1oz soda
0.5oz OJ
1 twist lemon
Pour JWRL over crushed ice in collins glass. Add sour mix, soda and OJ. Stir and garnish with lemon twist.
A suitable cocktail for a sociable scene, this is the perfect mix when good music and great coversation is flowing.
Gold Label Gold Standand
1oz JWGL
0.75oz honey
3oz champagne
edible gold leaf
Shake all ingridients except champagne in a cocktail shaker with ice. Por into glass. Float chilled champagne.
At a pre-dinner cocktail partym this sparklin, inventive mix makes a sriking first impression with its distinct, smooth flavor.
BLUE LABEL Perfect Pour
1.5oz JWBL
Sweve neat in a rocks glass alongside a glass of ice water. Cool the mouth with ice before each sip of the Blue Label.
Momnetous occasions, private celebrations and intelligent conversations are the ideal opportunities to share this unparalleled experience.
Black Label Manhattan
1oz JWBL
0.5 sweet vermouth.
Pour JWBL over ice in a rocks glass. Add sweet vermouth. Mix, Or, try an alternative twist to this classic by adding equal portions of sweet and dry vermouth.(.25oz ea)
For a night on the town, this simple elegant cocktail is just the right match as you venture out and meet new people.
Green Label Green Tea
1oz JWGL
0.5oz scotch liqueur(or honey)
seven mint leaves
3oz green tea
Tear minth leaves and place in a highball glass. Add JWGL and scotch liqueur. Fill glass with ice and top with green tea.
A personal celebration. The end of a long work week. When there's time to really enjoy the company you keep, savor this unique cocktail together.
Johnnie Walker® proudly presents The New Classics
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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The Ultimate All-in-One Beer Brewing Machine - Popular Science
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Xbox Live servers can't handle the load
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Halo 3 Tournament
Microsoft Game Studios and the U.S. Army today announced that U.S. gamers will have a chance to prove their skills in the first ever “Halo 3” Championship Tournament, hosted exclusively on Xbox LIVE.
The tournament kicks off in April 2008 and is complete with prizes for winners and finalists. Registration will begin in March.
Gamers will have the opportunity to participate in a series of “Halo 3” Basic Combat Training exercises leading up to the tournament. Designed specifically to prepare gamers for the Championship Tournament, these Basic Combat Training sessions will help gamers hone their skills with different weapons groups by offering exclusive training videos.
Registration for the first of three training sessions begins on Jan. 7, with gameplay beginning exclusively on Xbox LIVE on Jan. 19. Winners of these Basic Combat Training sessions will receive prizes, including Microsoft Points, exclusive “Halo 3” art, and more.
More info here
Register here
