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These are my links for January 30th:

• Charlie Brooker – How To Report The News –
• NitroTracker – A Fasttracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS. –
• Techno Shopping –
• Cubestat – Website Value Calculator, Estimations and Information –
• Presso – A revolutionary way to make connisseur coffee at home –
• Larry Carlson –
• Techzine –
• Jos van Oss, ZACHTE G HARDE L –
• Radio luisteren – rechtstreekse streaming links –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

These are my links for January 3rd:

• Home Server Plus –
• Drobo –
• Spyshop  –
• RTV Maarssen –
• Nexus One Google Phone HTC Android 2.1 Preview –
• Free Web Resources –
• KoffieMagazine.nl –
• The Hero Of Time –
• Lampe Berger Webshop –
• Never a year like ’09 –
• RIAA FAQ (internal use only) –
• Westboro Baptist Church – Pokerface –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

These are my links for October 31st:

• The History of Birth Control –
• TweetedBrands –
• Games, Not Porn, is Adult Actress’ Secret Pleasure –
• Extensions List (Google Wave Extensions List) –
• Complete List of Google Wave Gadgets, Robots –
• Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction –
• Ultimate List of Google Wave Gadgets and Tools –
• 3datadesign –
• DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Desktop Wallpaper –
• Dual Screen Wallpapers –
• 70 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers –
• DualScreen Wallpaper –
• Error 0×80070017 when installing Vista RC1 –
• Man Caught Making Coffee Naked in His Home Faces Charges –
• Cop caught with CP gets 1 year, even after raping a woman –
• Cartman doet Lady Gaga –
• Microformats –
• RubyGems Manuals –
• RubyForge –
• Ruby Programming Language –

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

These are my links for September 24th:

• FML: Both Sides Of The Story –
• FML: Your everyday life stories –
• Bikini Baristas Caught Selling ‘More’ Than Just Coffee –
• Twatif? –
• Oh, The Temptation –
• Hot Chicks with Dogs with Boners –
• This is Photobomb: Photojackers of the World Unite! –
• The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology –
• Tajin.nl –
• De wereld van Bourgondië –
• Herfstforel –
• Italiaanse Salade Met Mozzarella En Parmaham –
• Trends & Vision –
• 30 Dumb Inventions –
• All-In Chalets –

Link: medicman.nl – blog