Grey on Nov 30th, 2007A Talk From The Fake Steve Jobs
So what happens when you start a blog pretending to be Steve Jobs and it goes viral on the ‘net? That’s what happened to Dan Lyons, the man behind the Fake Steve blog and the author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs. Lyons talks at google about how the whole thing […]
Grey on Nov 28th, 2007The Physics Diet
I recently stumbled across a piece of writing by Richard A. Muller called ‘The Physics Diet.’ Dr Muller is a Professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley and wrote this small piece on dieting from a thermodynamic perspective.
It’s the simplest diet ever and works because you can’t beat the laws of thermodynamics.
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Grey on Nov 26th, 2007What America’s ‘Harsh Interrogation’ Really Looks Like
The following video shows torture taken from a CIA interrogation manual. The actor underwent the procedure for six hours, so that his pain, suffering, and cries are real.
The US government refuses to acknowledge this as torture and instead calls it a “Stress position.”
[Click here to see Amnesty International’s ‘Unsubscribe Me’ video]
Grey on Nov 23rd, 2007New Zealand to Fat Immigrants: Stay Out!
New Zealand Immigration policy will reject you if you are too fat. An article in the Telegraph highlights a fat british couple trying to emigrate to Kiwiland. The husband shed enough weight to be allowed in, but his wife has yet to be able to follow him. While the article takes a […]