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Drive Him Wild - Turn Him On - Redbook
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These are making me laugh. Maybe I'm just jaded now, but #93? Whisper to him, "If you could picture what's going through my mind right now, you'd be totally, and I mean totally, turned on." And what's with that chick in the picture looking at the camera? She's not very "in the moment." - Trish R via Bookmarklet
pfft...I thought of 95% of those *on my own* 11 years ago when we were first married...now they just seem like a waste of time....:oP bwa hahaha - Tuesday
95. Rip his horoscope out of the newspaper (anything with a good prediction) and write a note on it saying, "I predict you'll get a very lusty surprise today." Then leave it on his pillow. - Trish R
I knew I should have setup Esther's account last night. She's already missing good stuff. - Mark Krynsky
Is it just me, or does the word 'lusty' pretty much turn off whatever might have just been turned on? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Maybe because "lusty" rhymes with "busty" and makes men think of breasts? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA This article is too entertaining. - Trish R
they should change lusty to slutty... if it's slutty... it'll turn a guy on. It's not rocket science. - Joshua Schnell
how to turn him on: be over 18, born without a penis, have a pulse and say yes - Morgan Haley
91. Have sex in a tight space. They should just leave it at that... - Joshua Schnell
I don't have the patience to read 101 ways to turn a dude on!! - Mona N.
Trish R, I think she's saying shes got her eyes on someone else @~@, or maybe she's thinkin who is this bloke? & when do I get paid and out of this photo-shoot!? ;-0 - Jason Brooks
I'm amazed at how often Cosmo can recycle the same magazine over and over and people will buy it. Every month it's a list of either sexual positions or how to turn a guy on, or what drives him wild in bed. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
jason, every month another million girls reach homonal terminal velocity .. it is a perpetual thing, the magazine has an eternal market - Gregory Lent
Do women really have trouble with this? Like, for real? - Robert Fischer
Good call, Jason. "Recycle the same magazine." Exactly. - Kamilah Gill
If my girlfriend really wants to turn me on she should try turning into the girl in the picture! - Toby Graham
Toby: no kidding huh? the girl in the picture is 180 degrees from ugly - Morgan Haley
This should lead to some interesting ER visits: 45. Before getting into bed, strip down to just a pair of heels and a pearl necklace. Find out what interesting ways you two can incorporate them into sex. - Soup
Ummm, I really don't want to see my husband in heels and a pearl necklace. Wait, you mean that this article doesn't tell my husband how to turn me on? Then WTH is the point? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@Tina, Aw, does your husband not have the legs to pull off a classic heel? I'm sure he's lovely anyhow ;) - Soup
How to turn him on: just say, "I'm horny." 'nuff said. - Tad, Fool
@Tad Amen, brother. They could have skipped 100 ideas and just put in H1 font "You say: 'You want to?' He says: 'Sure!'" - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I swear the world would be a better place if women just had an LED on their foreheads that glowed green when they were horny and red when not. And that's totally not sexist cause us guys would just always be green. - Tad, Fool
@Tad: Exactly. Fortunately being green is good these days... ;) - Jemm
Tad, it could only end poorly. All it would take is one lady with a light that's always green til bedtime... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Ladies relax. You already got *everything* on you to turn a guy on. Doesn't take anything else - seriously. - Kamath ॐ
Bring back mood rings. :) - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Once again, I am reminded how entirely alternate my lifestyle is :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
HAHAHAHA, these things make me LMAO...Men are not that complicated. - Anna Haro
#1 Beer. #2 Boobies. /end - Matt Musgrave
is there an epidemic of men who aren't getting turned on? ... if so... Come Here, Ladies... I've got what you need! Sex, No seduction needed! ;) - Sean Reiser
102. stop "over thinking" things... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Thanks Trish - Just forwarded to my wife :) heh - Charlie Anzman
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Multnomah Falls in Miniature on Vimeo
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This is ridiculously cool. - Josh via Bookmarklet
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You really should be ashamed of yourself... Nickelback!?!?!? Everyone has their guilty pleasure... :)- - Gabriel N.
Would be cooler if it cost $4 and you magically got a $0.05 credit back. - Josh
Is this common? Amazon selling really cheap for a new album. - David Bisset
Wow that is cheap! And I back that, Nickelback is cool. - Juan Carlo Rodríguez
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Kevin Fox added a product to the Amazon wish list Wishlist
Mirror's Edge
yesterday at 2:21 pm - Link
I'll be getting this for the PC once I finish 'Far Cry 2'...very much looking forward to it. - Ryan Kaisoglus
i just read something about this today.. .apparently it makes people vomit... let me know how it goes. - jenna
My copy should be arriving sometime this week. If I can't make it in to work. you'll know why. - Mihai Parparita
For the first time I've found myself in a position to actually care about whether I should get a game for the 360 or the PS3. Apparently the PS3 has some undisclosed 'extra content' but I greatly prefer the 360 controller. Anyone have any insights into platform differences for this game? - Kevin Fox
I played the 360 demo and found the controls to be quite cumbersome - I'm going to wait for the PC version and play with my tried-and-true FPS controls of WASD+Mouse - Nathan Chase
@Kevin--for me the only diff. besides the controllers would be the multiplayer. That and the 360 drive noise is annoying--unless you've got a big HDD and can rip it to your drive with this week's dash update :) - Josh
Kev - in general I prefer the 360 controller also. But this game is much, much better with the PS3 controller. I tried the demos on both systems and the 360 controller just got in the way. That, along with the better graphics engine making sure your eyes don't stress too much from the all the white - is the reason I got it for the PS3. Great game if only for the experience for moving through the world. Cutscenes are awful and the story is just okay. There is a demo on PS3 also if you want to test it. - Nida
Meh. Play Fallout 3 instead. - Jonathan Terleski
My copy arrived last night. While there are definitely very enjoyable moments, I'm still not good enough with my timing that I end up dying quite often. The re-spawn/auto-save points are spaced far enough that I end up having to redo enough of my path for it to feel tedious/like "work." Still liking it better than Assassin's Creed (to which it's been compared). - Mihai Parparita
I couldn't finish Assassin's Creed (for the PC, but playing it with a gamepad). Not because it's hard, but because it's so repetitive; I want to see more of the present-day story but I can't get myself to run through the same city, do the same rooftop antics, kill the same kind of guards, over and over again. - Tudor Bosman
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yesterday at 4:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Please help! I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an i-phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer! " - Josh via Bookmarklet
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Chris Nixon posted a message
“I like Flickr stats, but I want to know so much more than they are telling me.”
I like Flickr stats, but I want to know so much more than they are telling me.
yesterday at 6:02 am - Link
Any analytics service anywhere, can always do with more detail. For the obsessivecompulsive in all of us - David Miller
Agree... I always find myself clicking on nonexistent links to find more info. - Juan Pablo González
I wonder about this also. I seem to get these spikes all the time and the views of the top viewed pix don't seem to correspond with the spike. - gfurry
this happened to me last week as well. my most recent public photo has been viewed over 800 times, but none of them have been credited to my total view count. perplexing. : ) - carlotta fancypants
Hopefully Flickr will extend their analytics package -- need more numbers plz! - Shey
I could never figure out Flickr stats -- there seem to be a whole bunch of conflicting, irreconcilable numbers. That being said -- isn' t there enough info in the referring stats to tell you where the traffic comes from? - Brian Sullivan
the flickr referrer list might give you a hint - any surprise referrer? - Joelle Nebbe
I would like to see better stats/analytics for PRO members too...make me feel like I'm getting more for my $--even if it's artificial differentiation. - Josh
omg that's so true... i found out that this pic of my cat licking his balls was quoted on some really random japanese blog amongst other cat pics resulting in a spike. WTF internet ... WTF! - Snipergirl
doesn't the referring link on that photo show you where the large number of views are coming in from? - Thomas Hawk
If it's the same thing that happened to me last month, it's 1 or 2 views of every photo on my stream in one day. Referrers didn't help - in fact I never did figure it out. - TreJack
It only does so for the last day. The analytics package is very weak compared to say what Google Analytics can do. Heck, if Flickr allowed Pro users to enter an Analytics account number for their pages, that would be a huge win. - Jauder Ho
We all just gotta remember that Flickr's first and foremost priority is their site/app. They've never been the go to guy for analytics software. - Rich Harris
Are you kidding? Google will be cannibalizing its Picasa product (though who cares any more about Picasa) by enhancing Flickr, a Yahoo product. Unfortunately for Google, Yahoo does own some nice intellectual property which suffers from some Yahooness in terms of anemic features. - Glenn Batuyong
It seems to be spread across a lot of my photos. Only a handful of my pics have had this amount of views in total. - Chris Nixon
Not a heavy flickr user but I totally agree with you - AJ Batac
I think it must be a glitch. None of my most popular photos had particularly large views on that date, - Chris Nixon
the overall referrals should show a spike of that size. Very doubtful it was internal within flickr. - Ryan Brenizer
Seriously I had the exact same thing happen last month. Every photo in my stream got two or three hits, with nothing in the referrals. The stats don't go back that far, so I can't research it now, but I'll be curious if you figure out what happened... - TreJack
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“Dirtiest thing...”
Dirtiest thing...
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I've ever seen. - Josh via mail2ff
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Quick Tip: Uploading Photos from Your iPhone « Flickr Blog
Friday at 1:01 pm - via Reshare - Link
Worst...photoshop...ever... - Josh
Upload by email for Flikr is nice, but I've been very fond of the Pixelpipe app. It's even easier to select, tag, and upload one or multiple photos, and it goes to different places (Flikr, Tumblr, etc). I just wish I had more photos worth uploading. - Ryan Twomey
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1800s Vampire Killing Kit Nabs $14,850 At Stevens Auction
Friday at 3:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"A complete and authentic vampire killing kit — made around 1800 and complete with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and even garlic, all housed in a American walnut case with a carved cross on top — attained $14,850 in the Pippen estate sale" - JoEllen via Bookmarklet
I have one of those--I keep it in my trunk, next to the ectoplasm poncho. - Josh
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November 11 at 7:53 pm - Link
A little light on the science that article is :) - Josh
average American diet is overloaded with corn, rice, wheat, and soy - Ian May
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o_O - Twitter Search
November 12 at 4:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
o_O o_O o_O o_O o_O - Josh via Bookmarklet
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How to: Scan to Evernote (on a Mac)
November 12 at 12:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
On my desk, behind a pile of notes, sits a scanner. After a bit of fiddling, I think I found a pretty nice way to scan directly into Evernote that will work for a majority of scanners. I am currently using a Mac, but there are similar methods that could be used on Windows as well. The setup is quite simple... - Josh via Bookmarklet
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Houses aren’t selling well?
November 12 at 9:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
That is awesome. - Josh
You should see some of the foreclosures and flop houses on the market in Northern VA, you'd appreciate knowing this info before going in to a lot of them. - Craig Eddy
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Sounds of hard drives needing data recovery - Datacent
November 12 at 9:22 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
" Hard drive sounds These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery lab. If your drive makes noises like these please fill out our simple evaluation form to get a fast quote on data recovery services. To listen to the sound simply click on the play button. Click on the drive manufacturer next to the sound button to learn more about common problems these drives experience. " -Via slashdot - Josh via Bookmarklet
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November 11 at 7:13 pm - via mail2ff - Link
I love technology. - Josh via mail2ff
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Do NOT jump on this trampoline
November 11 at 4:57 pm - Link
HAAAAaaaaaaahahhahahahahhaaaaaa!!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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MoMA Store - Sky Umbrella, Collapsible
November 11 at 2:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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Sleeping for less than seven and a half hours 'quadruples heart attack risk'  | Mail Online
November 11 at 8:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Sleeping for less than seven and a half hours a night can raise the risk of heart disease by up to four times, say scientists. They blamed the modern trend towards shorter nights' sleep for increasing the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. The average Briton gets seven hours' sleep, but a third regularly have five hours or less. The researchers identified the problem among those with high blood pressure. They studied 1,255 patients with the condition over an average period of 23 months. Participants were aged between 33 and 97, with an average age of 70. Of the total, 1,007 slept for more 7.5 hours a night and 248 for less. Getting under 7.5 hours of sleep was associated with a 27 per cent increase in the risk of heart attacks and strokes. But it was far more hazardous for the minority of patients whose blood pressure goes up during the night. Their likelihood of experiencing a heart attack or stroke, or dying suddenly because of a fatally irregular heart rhythm, more than quadrupled when - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Since the time change, I've been consistently getting a minimum of 8 hours, and I usually get 6 and a half or 7. I would try to get 9 if I could, but there's that life thing. I'm just too busy. :( - Derrick
Shit. I only get 6 hours maximum a night. It's been nice knowing you. - Grant Fitzgerald
but again the real factor is "does your blood pressure go up over night or not" - Joelle Nebbe
yikes. Looks like I'm in big trouble. - Thomas Hawk
wonderful. Let's just scare me more... Why can't I just live my life the way I want and not worry about heart risk?! - Les Zaldor
I'd get more sleep, but this case of cigarettes isn't going to smoke itself... - stretta via twhirl
Screw that. There's another metric--I'll be awake for 20% more of the best part if my life. - Josh
@Stretta +10! - Kenton
I'm screwed. - Clay Newton
Finally, something to make me feel good about making sure I get 8 hours every night. - Roberto Bonini
The study was done in people with pre-existing hypertension. The average age of the participants was 70 years old. http://archinte.ama-assn.org/c... - Victor Ganata
You lot need to stop reading the Daily Mail. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
+1 Kol. The Mail is completely insane... - Alexander Carlill
lmao @stretta - Anna Haro
I am sooo screwed! - Susan Beebe
crap :/ - embee
Error of judgment! - Shine
Based on the work schedule, this is tough. Means I'd have to go to bed at 10 every night. - Jason Kaneshiro
this is why I sleep more than 8 hours a day :) just kidding..but I do love sleeping. - Anna Lynn M.
Joelle is right. the headline is not accurate. "Getting under 7.5 hours of sleep was associated with a 27 per cent increase in the risk of heart attacks and strokes. " it's if in addition your blood pressure goes up during the night that your risk is quadrupled - edythe
damn, and I usually sleep less than 5 a night :( - ♣genieyclo♣
The study tells us nothing about whether or not someone in their late 20s/early 30s without pre-existing high blood pressure would have an increased risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. I still believe that not getting enough sleep is bad for you, but that's not an evidence-backed statement. - Victor Ganata
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Installing Windows 7
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On my Macbook...should be fun w/out drivers :O - Josh via mail2ff
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SLINKY CAT! - Josh via Bookmarklet
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Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
November 10 at 7:39 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Circuit City Stores Inc., the nation's second-biggest electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday but plans to stay open for business as the busy holiday shopping season approaches. Circuit City also said it would cut 700 more jobs, after announcing a week ago that it would close 20 percent of its stores and lay off thousands of workers." - AJ Kohn via Bookmarklet
Glad I used that gift certificate two weeks ago! - AJ Kohn
who couldn't see this coming? So much commerce is going online. Why would anyone shop here for anything serious. High commission sales people trying to sell you extended warranties on things that you don't need in the first place. - Thomas Hawk
Saw it coming 4 months ago. - David Cook
I hate these stores as much as anybody, but when you need a toslink cable and just can't wait they rock. - Josh
We all saw it coming while we still all like to walk in and FEEL the stuff before we run off to buy it online. - Amit Morson
They're closing the store in Morgan Hill; it opened up in September. Most items are 10-20% off, which makes them only slightly more expensive than the same item at amazon.com. - Glen Campbell
I still want to look at stuff in person, hold it, see how the buttons work, check the heaviness, etc. CC sucked, but it still provided something you can't get online: touch. (Btw, I quit CC after they fired all their experienced floor sales force, but I still go to Best Buy.) - steplow = Steve Lowe
I'm not particularly surprised but I thought they did a very good job with buy online, pick it up at the store. - AJ Kohn
With CompUSA gone and CC gone there will be very few places to FEEL stuff... - Amit Morson
Maybe Fry's will open more stores. I'm more likely to find the various cables and parts I need there anyway. - Chris White
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US Politics: tehKenny posted a link
November 9 at 9:29 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) Very Unfavorable." - tehKenny via Bookmarklet
Wow. Just wow. - Lindsay Donaghe
Another reason Republicans lost the election and lost control of the house and senate. - Grant Gochnauer
I am so glad I gaveup being a Republican a year go. They need a big, red, reset button. - Mark VandenBerg
FAIL. - V for Veselka
I hope she does...I liked watching her fail the first time :) - Josh
All I want is for both major parties to have both a pres. and vice pres.I don't have to fucking feel afraid of. Too much to ask? - tehKenny
this is uncomfortably disturbing in a profound way. it just gets more surreal - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ
@bluecockatoo ditto that! - ·[▪_▪]·
I have trouble accepting 64 % ... seems to me there are far more alienated republicans right now than ever. People who blame Palin for lowering the profile of the party and alienating the intelligent, successful and largely fiscally conservative *majority* of the GOP. Those wingnut, bigot, hillbillies Palin lathered up constitute a relatively small proportion of GOP supporters (social hardliners). - V for Veselka
notice the poll was over the phone which tells me its accuracy is questionable, but if its accurate its really disturbing. - Kim Landwehr
"Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Every time i think of Palin now, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... comes to mind. - ·[▪_▪]·
What a bunch of crap. Nothing in that article says anything about the criteria of the survey - how many people were surveyed, how many responded, etc. It could have been 100 people or 50 people or 500,000 people. It doesn't say that i could find, including on the link the article linked to. A smart journalist would have asked: what was the basis of the survey? That is what defines the outcome, more than anything. - Patricia
With the media spotlight on her and being held tightly in her hands, I'm sure she will do something so stupid, disturbing or controversial that she'll be an unhappy footnote in US political history by 2012. Or will have a talk show w/ Elizabeth Hasselbeck on FOX News. Whichever? :) - David Monroe via twhirl
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“I think I have a pornstar following me on Twitter... SCORE!”
November 8 at 9:07 pm - via Ping.fm - Link
share... - Live4Soccer
HA! I got that one today, too! She must be finding all the hot sexy studcakes to subscribe to... :-p - Live4Soccer
I didn't know we was in competition... - Outsanity
L4S, then she shouldn't had followed me - Outsanity
sheeeeeet, come on now, Outsanity.... - Live4Soccer
I heard Pornstars count as 50 subscribers. :-) - Harold Cabezas
she looks like rosanne barr ... for Gawds sake's - johnpiercy via twhirl
{LMAO ~ johnpiercy} - Harold Cabezas
more porn stars should twitter...."just got done eating lunch. had a ham sandwich. blew 30 guys in a gang-bang. doing 3 lines of blow. going to bed." - Live4Soccer
well she does .. - johnpiercy
I wouldnt hit that with a 10 ft pole - johnpiercy
LOL L4S "I'm at work spiiong on some coffee and jizz" - Outsanity
Not hawt....I wasn't gonna say nothin...but john started it. Maybe if I saw more of her work...LOL - ♫ Rahsheen™
Come on Rahsheen, give her a chance! She could be "the one"....haha - Live4Soccer
The "one " heheheh - johnpiercy
she probably has been passed around more times , than a bag of doritos at a party - johnpiercy
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I think I just threw up a little...
November 8 at 9:22 pm - Link
This artist creates pieces which are, basically, what every day objects would look like if they were made of meat. The chair is mild. The toilet is not for the squimish. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Italian bacon furniture?! Awesome! Molto bene! - Pete Delucchi
I like meat...but...brrrdrdrrd....erm...yeah....just threw up in my mouth a little - ♫ Rahsheen™
Excuse me, is this meat taken? - Josh
I like my bacon chair , crispy - johnpiercy
Well, boy-howdy, it sure was nice to finally meat-chair! - Josh Haley via fftogo
No thank you. - Derrick
wow, this is extreme! Like! - Paulo Gomes
yuuuuuck...looks like goatsee - Live4Soccer
MEAT SEAT. - Akiva Moskovitz
DO NOT WANT - WorldofHiglet
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Bret Taylor added a product to the Amazon wish list Wish List
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
November 7 at 6:55 pm - Link
If you read this you'll likely go vegan, at least for a little while. - Evan Parker
Has anyone read this? What makes this book special? Feedback? - Susan Beebe
Not because of weight, surely, Evan? I know some plump vegans. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
@Evan, since the study was conducted in China and Taiwan I suspect that milk / dairy products were not a big part of the study? Lactose intolerance occurs at much higher frequencies in those parts of the world than some others. - Ruchira S. Datta
one thing for sure, junk food, restaurant food, prepared food, all are short of "life-force", and "vitamins" are crude concepts that only approximate what nutrition is .. so whether this book has anything new to say i don't know, but re-thinking food has to be one of the programs in a new paradigm of social functioning ... and meat? you need less than you think, unless you are an innuit - Gregory Lent
I highly recommend reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan as a prerequisite to reading of any book containing the word "nutrition" ;) - Igor Krivokon
Igor: thanks, added to my wishlist as well. - Bret Taylor
I wonder how much merit there is to the book's critics who started a few discussions on Amazon. Here's just one example: http://www.amazon.com/Colin-Ca... (and no, I have not and do not plan to read the complete forum on Amazon: it's just too many people arguing with each other). - Michal Cierniak
@MiniMage, the evidence in the book is pretty overwhelming that reducing your intake of animal products is just generally healthy. @Ruchira, the book includes lots of research, from controlled studies of mice to small controlled studies of humans in the US to the really large observational China Study; the studies of mice in particular show that casein (the main protein in dairy products) is likely a cancer promoter. - Evan Parker
@Evan, drinking cow's milk is supported by one adaptation, lactase, which isn't even spread throughout the human population, let alone among rodents and primates. It may well be supported by additional adaptations, so I'd be rather skeptical about transferring results from a mouse model directly to lactose-tolerant humans. In any case, it seems like an interesting question to look into some time! - Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira, good point, the book admits at the end of ch. 3 that controlled human studies would be needed to generalize the casein results to humans. The china study itself showed a strong correlation between intake of animal protein and many types of cancers, but as an observational study it can only demonstrate correlation, not causation; it also did not shed light on casein specifically, and was obviously done in China where lactose intolerance is common. - Evan Parker
One particularly convincing small controlled study by one Dr. Esselstyn took 18 people with severe heart disease and put them on a mostly vegan diet. "Within the 8 years leading up to the study, these eighteen people had suffered through 49 coronary events...In the following 11 years [after starting the diet], there was exactly 1 coronary event among the 18 patients who followed the diet. That one event was from a patient who strayed from the diet for 2 years." - Evan Parker
Quite frankly, I would take anything coming out of China with a grain of salt. The lifestyle, levels of pollution, and healthcare, etc. is quite different from most developed nations, and drawing conclusions based on a foreign study is not a good idea. I think that examination of food alone is incomplete without an examination of the entire lifestyle. - Piaw Na
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“Anyone @ Apple reading? Vista64 on Boot Camp won't install drivers "pending restart" but already restarted. ideas?”
November 7 at 3:39 pm - Link
Basically, I installed Windows Vista x64 fresh in Boot Camp on my Mac Pro. Works like a charm, as usual, but I can't get any of the Apple drivers installed because 'setup.exe' on the Mac OS X CD keeps telling me that the system has a 'pending restart' and to reboot first. I've rebooted about 20 times, to no avail. There seem to be plenty of discussions on Apple's message forums about the problem, but no answers. Anyone know what's up and how to get around it? - Don MacAskill
I can help you over here. But I'm running out for 20 minutes. I couldn't DM you on Twitter because you don't follow me. This isn't an unusual problem for Windows users. It's known to happen when installing Kaspersky antivirus. What happens is that a flag gets set in the registry telling Windows it has pending operations to do after a reboot. It