Do you know your caffeine intake?

March 7th, 2010 by brad

Wisebread had a good post on the amount of caffeine you can find in common drinks and foods. Of course coffee has a lot, but how much more than an espresso? How about a chocolate bar?  They got a lot of their information from an article at the Mayo Clinic.

Source: Wisebread

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Watching more poker…

March 7th, 2010 by brad

ESPN’s Inside Deal can now be embedded too. Daniel Negreanu is in this one.

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Watch High Stakes Poker on GSN’s website

February 23rd, 2010 by brad

I’m glad to see GSN is making it available through the web.

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Last Shuttle night lift off

February 8th, 2010 by brad

The shuttle Endeavour lifted off this morning — it was the last night shuttle launch and there are only four missions left total. The imagery never ceases to amaze me.

Shuttle lift-off

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Watch more TV online?

February 6th, 2010 by brad

I’m sure everyone has heard of hulu.com by now, I use it frequently and even stream it to my PS3 using Playon. But I found another site – TV Gorge – that has even more shows, although I can’t figure out how it’s legit.



Source: Lifehacker

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The Muppets still crack me up

December 23rd, 2009 by brad

Here they are singing Bohemian Rhapsody.

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The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil

December 23rd, 2009 by brad

Pretty interesting thoughts on artificial intelligence and the growth of computing.

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Very cool data visualization sites

October 28th, 2009 by brad

One from IBM at Alphaworks.

Another one that is the period table of visualization – pretty slick.

Some data mashups:

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Treemap visualization of Google News

October 28th, 2009 by brad

A new site that creates a treemap off of Google News data. Pretty Slick. One of several cool projects from Marcos Weskamp.

NewsMap

NewsMap

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Million Dollar Challenge

October 24th, 2009 by brad

Pretty cool show…well, I like it at least.


Watch Million Dollar Challenge, Episode 1 on PokerStars.tv

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