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Well, it’s been quite awhile since I was regularly writing in this blog. I’ve written a lot more at my World of Warcraft blog - World of Warcraft Class Guide - than here. But here is a start: Apparently it is more expensive and damaging to the environment (over the life of the vehicle) to drive a Prius versus a Hummer! Who knew!?! A recent clinical study - done by real MDs!

If you always wanted to live in a hotel-sized home, feel free to move to Pasadena and spend $52 million for this home. The future of tires has no room for air compressors or flats! Behold, the Tweel from Michelin. That’s about it for today…

Looks like Lance Armstrong is training for the 2006 NYC Marathon on November 5th. According to the article, the longest run he’s had to date is 13 miles. The MIT Guide to Lockpicking. Money Magazine has posted a list of the 50 Smartest Things to Do With Your Money. A tutorial on how to create a Firefox extension. A short article on why top employees quit. As soon as these come out in color, I’m buying one!

As predicted, the new Sony PlayStation 3 will be used in conjunction with folding@Home to put those spare near-supercomputer cycles of the Cell to work finding cures for disease. Awesome!!! Funny, but banned commercial from Ikea. Another good one here. Sucks to get caught in this. If you need some new fonts, try looking through the 10,000 or so fonts here.

Apple released a totally new version of the Shuffle today. It is now the size of a postage stamp and can clip onto almost anything. I plan to buy one of these and clip it onto the headphones, thereby eliminating the need for an armband for my MP3 player and no more long, annoying cord. Apparently they are also putting out the iTV (code name) in Q1 2007 - a cool little device that streams music, pictures, and video from any computer running iTunes.

Looks like drinking moderately on a daily basis is very good for a man’s heart - 41% better than not drinking. Guess it is time to break out the vino. And if there weren’t enough places to play Sudoku already, here is another, albeit, a good one. This is a great article on how to make exercising a habit - from The Happiness Project.

A very interesting article on a new physics theory that may lead to faster-than-light space travel. Found a gorgeous, very castle-like home in Telluride… Great article on not eating low-fat foods to stay in shape. Me likey. Cool Google Maps find of two SR-71 Blackbirds on the runway and another of Niagara Falls.

There’s going to be at least one hourly employee getting a pink slip shortly…and hopefully a long prison sentence. Some interesting home movies made in-game with World of Warcraft…someone has a lot of time to kill - and that’s in addition to the hundred-hour game commitment. At long last, a math geek has quantified the answer to “Do you get less wet running in the rain as opposed to walking in the rain?