May 2011

Yes, paleo-eating is not sustainable. Big deal.

May 31, 2011

The question of a paleo/primal diet being sustainable for the world’s population is a recurring one over at PaleoHacks. The issue is simple: if we remove grains from the diet, a staple of pretty much every poor country out there, then how can we realistically replace those calories with food that do meet paleo/primal standards. [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-05-29.

May 29, 2011

Anyone know of an iPad app for creating .stl files, not just viewing them? # Evernote, or Simplenote? # California hates yogurt. And entrepreneurs. http://econ.st/jsXXPs # Indecisiveness means you want to be best prepared for tough decisions: http://bit.ly/kzoDKb #

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Neanderthals, body hair, and sex.

May 24, 2011

In Them+Us, Danny Vendramini asserts that neanderthals were as furry as other primates, if not more so. Vendramini argues that given the cold temperatures of ice-age Europe, that neanderthal bodies were covered in thick hair, making them resemble Big Foot more so than brutish early humans. In contrast, Levant-dwelling early humans lost their body hair [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-05-22.

May 22, 2011

Anyone have a good comparison between DropBox and Mobile Me iDisk re: encryption and TOS? # For those who complained, we replaced the fuzzy Google web fonts we used at mendax.org, so Windows users can now read headache-free. # Web-based Mobile Me will only let us access Find My iPhone. No other features working. Anyone [...]

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If eBooks are so successful, why the push-back?

May 20, 2011

Things have come a long way since we voiced our concerns on eBooks two years ago. Today, our primary medium for books is the iPad, as we alternate between iBooks and the Amazon Kindle app1. When a book isn’t out for either reader, we’re more likely to wait on a purchase. We don’t seem to [...]

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Microcell to fix abrupt AT&T iPhone issues?

May 20, 2011

Our 2G iPhone, operating exclusively on T-Mobile, once started having issues making/receiving phone calls, and when a call was able to connect, it was quickly dropped. To determine whether the problem was with our iPhone or T-Mobile, we put our SIM back into our aging Sony Ericcson T610 backup phone, and verified that it, too, [...]

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