Category Archives: Current Events
Beards are good for you
This is medical research I can support.
But think twice before you tell your man to reach for a razor, because beards and moustaches might be beneficial for men’s health.
This is still, it has to be said, an emerging field of thinking — but here, with tongue half in bearded cheek, we reveal the health upside of men’s facial hair…
via Beards are good for you: From warding off pollen to slowing the ageing process | Mail Online.
hat tip: Joe
Chups
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My friend Kori has been working on a series of fruit ketchups called Chups. Last month I ordered three of them to check them out and was really impressed with the packaging that they came in. It all seemed well thought out.
Simple outer packaging, but the sticker let’s me know what is inside
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Pitchers and Catchers Report
White Sox Vs. Red Sox at Fenway Park in 2012
Last year I only made it to One White Sox game, but I did make it to a number of Nationals games. Pitchers and Catchers reporting day is always an exciting one. Spring is just around the corner and in a little over a month baseball will start back up. Go White Sox!
Government to switch to open source – Daily News Egypt
maybe hattip Ben Balter
Buildings and Websites
The start of this Ted talk could just as easily be about Web Design and Web Development as it is about building design and building construction. The fields are often compared incorrectly, but we do share a lot of commonalities. The designer/architect is rarely the one constructing it while the building engineer/web engineer might be pleased to allow function to rule over aesthetics. Joshua Prince-Ramus captures a lot of these challenges really well.