A strong cup of coffee in the morning can feel like a life saver. Now, one of the largest and longest studies of coffee drinking suggests that coffee may indeed boost your lifespan – providing you drink enough of the stuff, that is.

The study tracked 129,000 men and women over two decades. It found that people who consumed several cups of coffee every day were less likely to die of heart disease than those who shied away from the stuff. Heart disease is an umbrella term for conditions including heart attacks, stroke, and arrhythmia.

The researchers found that women who drank four to five cups per day were 34% less likely to die of heart disease, while men who had more than five cups a day were 44% less likely to die.

Oh hell yeah, and I just got an espresso machine!

Guzzling coffee may cut heart disease - health - 16 June 2008 - New Scientist

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Park Tavern
500 Tenth St. NE
Atlanta, GA, Georgia 30309
33.7819, -84.3712
Category
Social
Description
Celebrate the Firefox 3 release and participate in the quest for a Guiness Book Record for downloads.

Goodies from the Mozilla Foundation and refreshments courtesy of StomperNet and Appcelerator.

Plz bump this!

Hotlanta Firefox 3 Launch at Park Tavern (Tuesday, June 17, 2008) - Upcoming

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IZHf6InQW60

Oh sweet Chemex. Thank you boingboing.

YouTube - The Chemex Method at LAMILL Coffee

Known as a pristine coffeemaker, Chemex� employs all of the chemically correct methods for brewing. It's hourglass shaped flask is made entirely of glass, a chemically inert material that does not absorb odors or chemical residues. The Chemex� has no moving parts and will work forever, unless it is dropped or in some other way demolished. Chemex� filters are made of the highest quality filter paper. With a wide selection of coffeemakers, filters, and accessories, we can assist you in all of your coffee needs.

Wow. I think this product could give meaning to my coffee, and plug a hole in my life. I give myself unto you, Chemex.

Chemex

When I meet with entrepreneurs or Ga Tech faculty/researchers, many times they have a grand vision of their technology and what their first product will look like. It can be exciting and compelling. However, that product idea is usually quite complex and would require a significant effort to get it built and launched.

My response is to instead suggest that their idea would make a great third product. From then we start to talk about what their first product could be. Product 1 should be quick and easy to launch. It should be sold to the same poeple you think would buy Product 3. It should not have too much technical risk. It is probably not very exciting. And, at best, just plan on breaking even. There should also be a second product that acts as a link to the third product on your roadmap. We are creating a ladder.

Why do this?

* The first product gets you into the market faster.
* You start generating revenues much earlier in the process, reducing business risk.
* You reduce dilution from having to otherwise take on more startup capital.
* You learn from your customers. No matter what they say in a market survey, you don't know what people really think until they have to spend their money on your idea.
* You will find out which of your assumptions are wroing and what parts of product 3 need to be changed. If you launched product 3 first, you would never know.

Product 3 will most certainly look much different than you originally envisioned. That is due to the knowledge you gain from being in the market that cannot be achieved any other way.

What are the first two rungs on your product ladder?

OOOH OOH OOH! I've been coming to this conclusion over the course of 2 failed startups.

GT VentureLab: Maybe that is your third product

Revision3 runs a tracker expressly designed to coordinate the sharing and downloading of our shows. It’s a completely legitimate business practice, similar to how ESPN puts out a guide that tells viewers how to tune into its network on DirecTV, Dish, Comcast and Time Warner, or a mall might publish a map of its stores.

But someone, or some company, apparently took offense to Revision3 using Bittorrent to distribute its own slate of shows. Who could that be?

Along with where it’s bound, every internet packet has a return address. Often, particularly in cases like this, it’s forged – or spoofed. But interestingly enough, whoever was sending these SYN packets wasn’t shy. Far from it: it’s as if they wanted us to know who they were.

A bit of address translation, and we’d discovered our nemesis. But instead of some shadowy underground criminal syndicate, the packets were coming from right in our home state of California. In fact, we traced the vast majority of those packets to a public company called Artistdirect (ARTD.OB). Once we were able to get their internet provider on the line, they verified that yes, indeed, that internet address belonged to a subsidiary of Artist Direct, called MediaDefender.

Now why would MediaDefender be trying to put Revision3 out of business? Heck, we’re one of the biggest defenders of media around. So I stopped by their website and found that MediaDefender provides “anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention industry.” The company aims to “stop the spread of illegally traded copyrighted material over the internet and peer-to-peer networks.” Hmm. We use the internet and peer-to-peer networks to accelerate the spread of legally traded materials that we own. That’s sort of directly opposite to what Media Defender is supposed to be doing.

Revision3 - MediaDefender DOS Attacks

wii remote projects, $14 steadycam, giant paint balloon slingshot, projector calibration, brain-computer interaction, kinetic typography, electric cello,...

Projects of they Johnny Lee

Johnny Chung Lee - Projects

They do they good with they wii.

Wat

TED | Talks | Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote (video)

Goosh goosh.org 0.4.4-beta #1 Tue, 03 Jun 08 22:59:00 UTC Google/Ajax

Welcome to goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.
You type commands and the results are shown on this page.

goosh is powered by google.

goosh is written by Stefan Grothkopp
it is NOT an official google product!

Your language has been set to: en (use lang to change it)
Enter help or h for a list of commands.

guest@goosh.org:/web>

Oh wow, so much better than the site.

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

WASHINGTON — Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have "been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service ... to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government," a Senate Intelligence Committee report said Thursday.

They dupe they?

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/05/2008 | Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?