Trading 10 for one.

After finding out that my thyroid is essentially dead, I have been taking a synthetic hormone replacement. Hypothyroidism was the central cause of ailments generating a plethora of prescriptions treating depression, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Now I just need to kick those medications in an organized and non-destructive manner. Dropping Zoloft was a huge relief and now I look forward to 9 more.

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Gladwell on "Everything Bad"

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books: "Americans—at least, as measured by I.Q. tests—were getting smarter... I.Q. scores showed a steady upward trajectory, rising by about three points per decade... test scores have continued to rise—not just in America but all over the developed world... In the wonderfully entertaining “Everything Bad Is Good for You” (Riverhead; $23.95), Steven Johnson proposes that what is making us smarter is precisely what we thought was making us dumber: popular culture."

Spectacle - Color Schemes

Spectacle - Color Schemes via Veer

Will is cool.

He had cocoa after school w/2 marshmallows, no more, no less. He then proclaimed, "my sensors tell me that we should have cocoa more often."

Worth doing, even from a distance.

While in ORL on business in April 2002, my boss and I heard that the shuttle would be launching late one afternoon -- even watching from a parking lot roughly 10-15 miles south of KSC was a trip. The furious outlay of energy required to exit the atmosphere is stunning, even at that range.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-110

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Think Secret - EXCLUSIVE: Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo

Think Secret: "The new Mac is said to be incredibly small and will be housed in a flat enclosure with a height similar to the 1.73 inches of Apple's Xserve." -- This will be the next PC I will buy. I will order it the day it is released.

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

03: The Streets

Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2004: "And much like actual life, Skinner's so caught up on the little things that he doesn't see the big ones coming-- he stews over cellphone signals and broken televisions without realizing that his best friend and girlfriend have begun an affair. The drama leads to a goosebump-inducing soliloquoy in the closer 'Empty Cans', which eventually concludes just as the album began"

Rent a car, music is free

CNET News.com: "...National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car will offer XM radio service in certain vehicles for no extra charge. Financial terms of the deal were not released."
A friend (XM subscriber) and I (Sirius Subscriber) were searching for music in FLA in April and came to the conclusion that this was a must-do-deal for the satellite radio guys. This is a win-win-win. Customers have an enhanced perception of National and Alamo, XM gets first-hand exposure among a highly-coveted demographic, Customers get a huge selection of commercial-free music in a place where they have no favorite stations to rely on.