Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: health

  • links for 2007-11-14

    Are You a Right Brainer or a Left Brainer? Take This Quick Test to Find Out! – Articles (tags: health brain)

  • A More Usable Usability

    Previously I have seen usability describing ease of using a web site. These four essences of usability are interesting. I believe that to satisfy customers, a Web site must fulfill four distinct needs: Availability: A site that’s unreachable, for any reason, is useless. Responsiveness: Having reached the site, pages that download slowly are likely to…

  • links for 2007-08-27

    GotPrint: Full Color Glossy Business Cards (tags: cards) Easy Picture Hanging (tags: lifehacks photography photos DIY) Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases (tags: cooking food lifehacks health nutrition) Linux.com :: Is my hardware Linux-compatible? Find out here (tags: linux hardware)

  • Reactions

    The Athens NEWS: Athens’ Only Locally Owned Newspaper: Ohio University would be safer with concealed weapons on campus if those gaining such a permit had to be subjected to a strict screening process that included an annual mental-health checkup; criminal background check; and training in said firearms use, marksmanship and safety, including an inspection of…

  • Criminal Scholarships

    The BBC article doesn’t say whether this is a UK only thing, but this is just scary. If it is a US phenomenon as well, then I wonder how many college students are being paid to go to school? On the one hand, the students are getting an education. On the other, the students will…

  • GERMANY 4-2 COSTA RICA

    The next 30 days will probably have highlights of my love, the World Cup. Many fantastic teams have come together to compete for the title. Game one started with a bang. Germany plays aggressively (though their back line is shoddy). Catching the start at lunch (, brother supplied the play by play over IM,) and…

  • *Cough, Cough*

    Not sure what to think about this. After all, the reasons for why people get sick are as varied as the illnesses. Why would two distinct populations have different rates of illness? Well just off the top of my head: Genetics Pollution Bad habits Poor management These could all be slight contributors. Or it could…

  • Crime and Malnourishment

    Perhaps this can suggest something even more novel like fast food is responsible for the increased crime levels? By eliminating McDonalds and Burger King, the US could cut crime by whole percentage rates? Maybe this could spawn whole new legal defenses? “Because I was malnurished, I was not thinking straight.” Perhaps too similar to the…