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NY Running

by pribut on June 28, 2008

The New York Times had a fine article highlighting running in Central Park. Many years ago, when I regularly ran in Central Park, the north hilly end was even better for speed work than it is today. There was significantly more crime in the area, and to feel safe while running there, you had to [...]

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The Perfect iPhone Ringtone

by pribut on May 26, 2008

I’m steering you to Eric Meyer’s blog for his version of the perfect iPhone ringtone. The video documentation of the origin of the perfect ringtone is on Youtube.
The previous candidate for the perfect iPhone ringtone, which gets loud enough to actually hear is available as a “loud iPhone ringtone“.

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Google Health Care Ready To Go

by pribut on May 20, 2008

Google health care started today. It enables you to store your medical data online. You may record your latest blood tests, weight, height, medical disorders, medications, and allergies. You can keep a listing of the doctors you visit, but whose names you can’t remember.
From within (and from regular google too) you may search on medical [...]

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Give, Give, Give it Away: Running Shoes, Crocs, High Heeled Sneakers

by pribut on May 15, 2008

If you can’t figure out what to do with dead, old, used up and out of shape crocs, or if they make your feet hurt, give them back! Crocs has a recycling program at solesunited.com in which they recycle the shoes. They then make shoes that are manufactured with 20% recycled materials. These are then [...]

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Convergence of Worlds Virtual/RL Conference in Warcraft

by pribut on May 10, 2008

The first online scientific conference in the World of Warcraft is taking place this weekend. Warcraft is a MMORPG which has over 9 million users. The conference discusses many aspects of online worlds. This type of meet-up happens more often in Second Life, but has brought together many academics, students, and professions in the warcraft [...]

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