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Protect Your Heart by Sleeping a Lot

If you have high blood pressure, you have a simple way to help make your heart feel better:  Sleep a Lot!

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The Marathon MA-SLDC200W Utility Trunk Case with Wheels Review

If you play an electric guitar — you have a lot of junk.  You have pedals and straps and strings and cables and other stuff you need to store and lug around, and I have found a terrific gig case, the — “Marathon MA-SLDC200W Utility Trunk Case with Wheels” — and I am unable to live without it.

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Reviewing Awareness! for the iPhone

Awareness! is a new App for the iPhone that listens for danger for you while you lose yourself in your music.  The App only runs on iOS4, and when it is active, you get a bright, red, throbbing bar across the top of your iPhone screen at all times reminding you the App is active.  The only way to rid yourself of that annoying redness is to kill the App with a double click on the home button and then choose to close it as a live application.

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Ridding America of The Nanny State

Every generation of American children seems to be more guarded carefully than the last, and it is not ultimately beneficial to the children. The end result, I believe, is that the signal is sent out to the children that the world is a scary place of which they need to be fearful, and it is up to Big Brother to ban or outlaw anything that may hurt them.

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Tynt Insight Content Protection

Intellectual theft has come far in the last century. I can imagine that the idea of taking an article from a newspaper and passing it off as ones own must have been daunting in the late nineteenth century — and surely something that people would not have been so eager to do given the lack of incentive. Now, however, it is too easy to select an entire article with your mouse, copy it, and paste it into your blog — and throw your name on top of it.
Tynt helps you control the copy thieves.

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Hiding from the Swine

Last week, three of the top ten sellers on Amazon.com were surgical masks.  People were buying the masks in a feint effort to protect themselves from the onslaught of the Swine Flu pandemic. This week, we are brought into the realm of the ridiculously sublime in the fashionable, yet tasteless, animal face surgical mask:

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NYPD Artificial Eyes and Human Perception

New York State is in budgetary trouble. New York City is in a financial crisis. 
Is protecting the citizenry one of the first fatalities of fiscal decay as the NYPD slows the addition of 800 officers and 3,000 security cameras downtown in the Wall Street area surrounding Ground Zero? 

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