Welcome to Carlsonhome.net
Welcome to Carlsonhome.net. I use this space mainly to collect things I find online and find them later, but if other people find them interesting or useful, bonus! My name is Eric Carlson, and I'm currently a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins studying systems neuroscience. When I'm not doing that, I'm either working on my house, or photographing - examples of the latter can be found in my personal and professional galleries: http://www.carlsonhome.net/gallery/ericspics and http://www.ellipsisphotography.com. For more information about me, please see my About Me page. It also seems like a lot of people come here for my computer help section, which can now be found here.
DMCA made a little more rational!
Jailbreaking and dvd ripping now legal!
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/26/technology/iphone_jailbreaking/index.htm
Droid X self destructs
The iPhone antenna stuff stinks, but at least Apple doesn't actively cause your phone to brick if they detect a jailbreak, "Droid Does!"
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/14/droid-x-actually-self-destructs-i...
"Until the rise of the coffeehouse, the entire population was effectively drunk all day"
The reason: Until coffee and tea became popular, "alcohol was the daytime drink of choice," he told the TED Global conference in Oxford on Tuesday. Water wasn't safe to drink, so wine, beer or gin was a better choice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
"Until the rise of the coffeehouse, the entire population was effectively drunk all day," Johnson said in a talk aimed at explaining how ideas get started. "If you switched from a depressant to a stimulant in your life, you would have better ideas."
Just say No to Couch Potatoism
"In a study published in May in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, [researchers] reported that, to no one’s surprise, the men who sat the most had the greatest risk of heart problems. Men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in their cars (as passengers or as drivers) had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised.
Helpful Bacteria
Scientists are even discovering ecosystems in our bodies where they weren’t supposed to exist. Lungs have traditionally been considered to be sterile because microbiologists have never been able to rear microbes from them. A team of scientists at Imperial College London recently went hunting for DNA instead. Analyzing lung samples from healthy volunteers, they discovered 128 species of bacteria. Every square centimeter of our lungs is home to 2,000 microbes.
Exercise - Good for your Noggin!
"Whether exercise directly reduces BMP activity or increases production of Noggin isn’t yet known and may not matter. The results speak for themselves. “If ever exercise enthusiasts wanted a rationale for what they’re doing, this should be it,” Dr. Kessler says. Exercise, he says, through a complex interplay with Noggin and BMP, helps to ensure that neuronal stem cells stay lively and new brain cells are born."
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/your-brain-on-exercise/
IPhone headed to verizon!
Finally! (Although I've been satisfied with ATT so far... I wonder if this will drop plan prices...)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/verizon-wireless-said-to-start-...?
Apple Rules :o)
I often hear people complain that apple-lovers are "sheeple," buying whatever "Lord Jobs" offers them. They compare apple products to their competitors based on specs and price, and use these to "prove" that apple users are being conned into buying inferior products. They always ignore what apple and its users have discovered, though - specs don't really matter, experience matters.
