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Archive for October, 2009

These are my links for October 18th through October 19th:

• Purno de Purno –
• Amazing Horse –
• Aansluitingen –
• Visualizing the Readable Volume in the Field of a RFID Reader –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

These are my links for October 18th:

• What’s Inside a Cup of Coffee? –
• Elephants Dream –
• Refzip Real-time Web Search –
• BlogBeat: de top-blogs uit de nederlandse blogosphere –
• Intelligent speed bumps collapse to reward slow-pokes, cut down on emissions –
• First Annual Web Film Festival –
• FFFFOUND! –
• Zee Slash Blog –
• You’re Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades –
• Murakami Rocking Chair Generates Electricity Using Human Power –
• Wibiya –
• The World’s Deadliest Foods –
• 376 of the best one-liners on the internet –
• OpenFTD –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

Caffeine
This is why the world produces more than 16 billion pounds of coffee beans per year. It’s actually an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine. The result: you, awake.

Water
Hot H₂O is a super solvent, leaching flavors and oils out of the coffee bean. A good cup of joe is 98.75 percent water and 1.25 percent soluble plant matter. Caffeine is a diuretic, so coffee newbies pee out the water quickly; java junkies build up resistance.

2-Ethylphenol
Creates a tarlike, medicinal odor in your morning wake-up. It’s also a component of cockroach alarm pheromones, chemical signals that warn the colony of danger.

Quinic acid
Gives coffee its slightly sour flavor. On the plus side, it’s one of the starter chemicals in the formulation of Tamiflu.

3,5 Dicaffeoylquinic acid
When scientists pretreat neurons with this acid in the lab, the cells are significantly (though not completely) protected from free-radical damage. Yup: Coffee is a good source of antioxidants.

Dimethyl disulfide
A product of roasting the green coffee bean, this compound is just at the threshold of detectability in brewed java. Good thing, too, as it’s one of the compounds that gives human feces its odor.

Acetylmethylcarbinol
That rich, buttery taste in your daily jolt comes in part from this flammable yellow liquid, which helps give real butter its flavor and is a component of artificial flavoring in microwave popcorn.

Putrescine
Ever wonder what makes spoiled meat so poisonous? Here you go. Ptomaines like putrescine are produced when E. coli bacteria in the meat break down amino acids. Naturally present in coffee beans, it smells, as you might guess from the name, like Satan’s outhouse.

Trigonelline
Chemically, it’s a molecule of niacin with a methyl group attached. It breaks down into pyridines, which give coffee its sweet, earthy taste and also prevent the tooth-eating bacterium Streptococcus mutans from attaching to your teeth. Coffee fights the Cavity Creeps.

Niacin
Trigonelline is unstable above 160 degrees F; the methyl group detaches, unleashing the niacin—vitamin B3—into your cup. Two or three espressos can provide half your recommended daily allowance.

Via: wired.com

Legendary mountain biker brothers Dan and Gee Atherton go for a ride through Dona Marta slum in Brazil. The course was designed and built for the unprecedented Red Bull Desafio no Morro race.

ChamBall is a sport that Charles Amis created while completing his thesis in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU, in which he told a story through a fictional sport. The sport has been actualized, and a group of players consistently meet at the Heckscher Picnic Area in New York’s Central Park every Saturday at noon to play.

Watch a video about Chamball below:

For more details on the rules of the game, click here or just stop by Central Park to see the game in action.

Via: psfk.com

Be prepared to sing along…

These are my links for October 16th through October 17th:

• GIGATweaker –
• Het Carnivore-afluistersysteem –
• Uquery.com – The Appstore Search Engine –
• #lounge @ Opera stats by flow –
• Every "under construction" sign ever made –
• 15 Tailgating Gadgets for Partying at the Game –
• KDE –
• The Stylophone Beatbox –
• Shane sings 5 octaves on piano –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

Nederland is een muziekland. Mede daarom kan ik jullie deze toppers van Nederlandse bodem niet onthouden. ENJOY!