If you’ve not seen this yet – animal battle at Kruger between some lions, buffalo and crocodiles!
Lactose Intolerance by groups – the text after the chart is particularly interesting regarding children’s tolerances. Whilst as babies they can consume milk happily, apparently 85% of Chinese & Japanese children will have lactose intolerance by the age of 10, though most could consume 200ml of milk with no issues. Also for more in-depth reading – The Norm amongst the world’s people.
Rickroll’ed! Antispore (if you’re angry after reading that site, you might want to find out what rickrolling is!)
One of my client’s servers I have been working on had started to suffer constant drop outs. What normally loads up in a flash now just .. doesn’t. Whilst static pages loaded fine, albeit slower than usual, most PHP pages seemed to just time out. More specifically, the pages that needed to access the database were failing…
Now, experience points that to some large dodgy query or two (or a lot of them) causing issues. Anyway, to cut to the chase, I find out one particular site’s database has 15 locked tables, with the process list showing queries into phpbb_ tables… hmm
I wish I took a screenshot of the forum before I nuked the directory and the related database tables, which incidently was a rather old PHPBB board, heavily spammed with thousands of pages of topics with all your usual penis enl4rg3ment sexy girl cam wording. The mysql process list query reveals many search indexing queries (thanks to the spambots) – the tables responsible for searches alone are at least a gigabyte in size! No wonder why the server decided to jam up and play dead, whilst spam bots play ping pong guitar with this mouldy growth of a rotten board…
Moral of this story? Prune your garden, or expect large weeds to appear!
(incidently, I’ve seen what looked like a mini-garden forest on someone’s plate of what looks like months-old of baked beans. Such fuzzy greenness. In a student house.)
Some random stuff I’ve I’ve been reading (and watching):
Gridlock economy – how too much use (or individual control) over a resource stifles progression (in the sense of innovation, money and mutually beneficial rewards). The speaker, Michael Heller, calls this the ‘tragedy of the anti-commons‘. This reminds me of an issue a friend’s extended family is having with a land deed in his village in Hong Kong: a patch of land is to be subdivided between the surviving descendants; however one of the families involved is disputing the process, and as the law requires all parties involved to agree, no one benefits from any land at all. I will probably buy the book.
The dramatic effect of a firm nudge (FT.com) – why subtle encouragement is a win-win approach to social issues, rather than resorting to harsh slaps and bans.
Red One: Ultra Hi-Def camcorder (via wired). Check out the video in that article. Look at the othervideos in the play list. Marvel at the details that you would normally get from a 12 megapixel DSLR camera, but played back at 24fps. Beautiful.
Segway inventor Dean Kamen with his water-purifying machine on the Colbert Report (via wired). A machine that can filter water out of any dodgy water source! That will be pretty useful if London’s desalination plant doesn’t hold up…
Finally, the new Jquery website design. And wow, the rock star image didn’t last long did it? I thought it was a very bold step, but too bold for some it seems!
This would be great as a home server box acting as a router/file server, being very economical with power usage. Based on the Intel Atom processor, the Shuttle x27 will idle at 23 watts, and will consume 36 watts when in use, and is reportedly quieter than your bedroom.
No idea on how much the x27 will cost, but I’d be pretty interested in it if it can come with a second ethernet port!
It is a wonderfood, low-fat, and has a nice supply of calcium for those bones. Ignore the common shelf super-sweetened yogurt packs – you’d be surprised at how much sugar is added. Use honey – the good stuff – to further combine wholesome nature smooth goodness which your body will thank you for.
Ok, says the lactose-intolerant individual, how does yogurt help me – it has lactose! Funnily enough, the same bacteria which make yogurt yogurt actually help digest lactose; some of them produce the required enzyme lacking for lactose digestion. As a further bonus in just about most people, they aid digestion. Some manufacturers go further and add even more cultures in, though beware of the duff labels which claim to offer such greatness (the food agencies will have spanked some of them for misleading advertisement by now).
It’s interesting to note that several decades ago, any kind of bacteria is bbad m’kay? however, as with what’s happened with the perception of FAT and many other aspects of nutrition, it has been shown that a number of types are beneficial for you, if not essential. They help your digestive system run smoothly, help fend off gut diseases, and there are even claims of reducing the chance of cancer! Not withstanding the lack of full scientific backup of this claim right now, anything that reduces the incident of cancer must be good right?
Anyway, my point is, go get some now! and get some honey to go with it if you prefer it sweet! To get you started, here’s what I eat at breakfast for a good low-GI start in the day:
portion of Muesli
Probiotic yogurt (enough to more than cover the muesli)
teaspoon of Honey
Stir the lot together in a bowl, eat it.
(BTW if Martin is reading this – you should eat yogurt. It really helps, I promise! Mix it with your hemp protein stuff)
