Our friend Casey Neistat made a wonderful documentary for the New York Times , he went and compared the actual calories of food to what’s listed on the nutrition facts. And guess what? More times than not, food had more calories than what was advertised. More »
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Are There More Calories in Food Than What’s Listed in the Nutrition Facts? (Yes)
If you’ve ever messed around with Linux, you’re probably familiar with a little program called ” Wine ,” WINdows Emulator/Wine Is Not an Emulator. With its magic, you can run Windows applications on your Linux box (as well as other operating systems), and soon, Wine could be running them on your Android phone as well . More »
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This startlingly orange gun isn’t something from a sci-fi film set. Instead, it’s a new firearm, from UK-based Selectamark, that fires non-lethal pellets—and marks its targets with DNA for later identification. More »
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This DNA Gun Will Tag Felons for Weeks
The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s annual list of “food porn”–items that have more calories in them than one might expect–identifies Cheesecake Factory’s Bistro Shrimp Pasta as a particularly bad offender. “It’s like eating three orders of Olive Garden’s Lasagna Classico plus an order of tiramisu for dinner,” CSPI said. Some in the food and beverage industries have dubbed the Washington-based group the “food police”. More than one-third of Americans are obese. One of my first memorable experiences in the U.S. was visiting a Cheesecake Factory, ordering a salad, and receiving 8lb of shredded lettuce suspended in a curiously solid hillock of oil and ranch dressing. Cheesecake Factory pasta on annual list of caloric “food porn” [Reuters]
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The essential vitamins your body needs can all be found in readily-available foods. This handy chart shows you which foods are rich in each vitamin, so you can plan your meals accordingly. More »
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Make Sure You’re Getting All Your Essential Vitamins from Food with This Reference Guide
An anonymous reader writes “Darren Nix works for 42Floors, a business that uses its website to help people find office space. He recently received a marketing email for a service that offered to identify visitors to his website. After squeezing some information out of the marketer and playing around with a demo account, he now explains exactly how sketchy companies track your presence across multiple websites. The marketer offered to provide Nix with ‘tracking code that would sit in your web site’ which would ‘grab a few key pieces of data from each visitor.’ This includes IP addresses and search engine data. The marketer’s company would then automatically analyze the data to try to identify the user and send back whatever personal information they’ve collected on that user from different websites. Thus, it’s entirely possible for a site to know your name, email address, and company on your very first visit, and without any interaction on your part. Nix writes, ‘A real-world analogue would be this scenario: You drive to Home Depot and walk in. Closed-circuit cameras match your face against a database of every shopper that has used a credit card at Walmart or Target and identifies you by name, address, and phone. If you happen to walk out the front door without buying anything your phone buzzes with a text message from Home Depot offering you a 10% discount good for the next hour. Farfetched? I don’t think so. … All the necessary pieces already exist, they just haven’t been combined yet.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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hattig writes “US researchers say they have developed a new type of lighting that could replace fluorescent bulbs. The new light source is called field-induced polymer electroluminescent (Fipel) technology. It is made from three layers of white-emitting polymer that contain a small volume of nanomaterials that glow when electric current is passed through them. The developer is promising cheap, hard-to-break, mercury-free, highly efficient bulbs from 2013.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs
Thanks to a (now password protected) page on Redbox’s support site, details on the company’s joint streaming venture with Verizon have finally surfaced. More »
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Leaked Redbox Instant Details Reveal Cheap, Netflix-Killing Prices
What began as a bill designed to protect the privacy of your digital life has been mangled at the behest of law enforcement agencies. CNET reports that if the revised Senate bill isn’t stopped before it goes to vote next week, 22 federal agencies will have warrantless access to troves of your private information. Let’s stop them. Updated below More »
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Facebook tells you one of your friends is celebrating a birthday today. You can write on his or her wall, like everyone else, or go the extra mile and send ’em a gift card. With Wrapp, you don’t even have to pay for the gift card. More »
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