WOW! A TRIPLE NEGATIVE!

On a serious note, some articles made headlines in the news about obesity for some reason. Here’s the source material on the actual “study“. If you’re too lazy obese to check it out, here are some links to some charts.

What shocks me is that the study was performed using BMI, or “Body Mass Index.” According to the BMI scale, this man is obese:

Ronnie Coleman is obese. Yeah, buddy.

Wait, what?

Yeah you read that right. Obese. According to his stats, his BMI fluctuates between 34.4 - 45.2 depending on his lifting schedule.

So wait, what the hell happened? None of this makes sense…

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I feel this video addresses a common problem of the bar & club going male. I think you’ll agree:

California is getting ready to issue notes promising to pay its vendors at a future date.  According to the theory of tax-driven money, if California just made state taxes payable in these IOU’s they would be on the road to having their own currency.  If it could borrow and spend in its own currency, California would have no “budget crisis.”

Taken from Yahoo News:

TAMPA, Fla. – Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He reportedly was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and Mays’ wife told investigators the TV personality didn’t feel well before he went to bed that night.

There were no signs of a break-in at the home, and investigators do not suspect foul play, said Lt. Brian Dugan of the Tampa Police Department, who wouldn’t answer any more questions about how Mays’ body was found because of the ongoing investigation. The coroner’s office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.
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Tyler’s litle preview of his new book Create Your Own Economy.  The points about the gains outside of monetary transactions are the most important.  I’ll add that the size of Twitter’s employee base he cites may be misleading.  Many of the essential tools to dashboard and filter twitter are engineered outside of the company.  They offer little more than a new type of social computing infrastructure.  While Ford installed dashboards on cars, Twitter “outsources” more or less the same thing.

Kottke on language and how it shapes your thought.  Of course he gets bombarded by opposition, but the post and argument are interesting.

Some commenters were confused about why Tyler loves Penelope Trunk’s blog, these posts on economizing your time might be why.  Don’t tell me you don’t have time to read them!

Newmark shows us a patch to revolutionize health monitoring.  Add a power supplied RFID chip and some government policies and its Eric’s worst nightmare!

You know he’s dead, he’s dead, you know it. (really, really dead…)

Ok, too soon. I’m actually sort of sorry. The guy was a legend regardless of all the scandals and fingers pointed in his direction.

At the age of 50, Michael Jackson is officially DEAD. Ok maybe not, still more details to come! BUT this would be insane if it were true!

Who saw that coming?!! Not me! I didn’t think he would ever die, but hopefully this is just the alien Michael who died, and not the real Michael, who will live on in our hearts forever.

Check it out.

Note: I’ll probably amend this post later on, but I wanted to get this post out there fast before my colleagues could beat me to the story! Updates as they come!

It’s fucking game time.

Stay tuned for more videos.