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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 October 9th through October 10th:

• Miley Cyrus Raps About Why She Left Twitter –
• Grazer onderzoekers ontdekten Duo "fontein van de jeugd" in de zaadvloeistof – swallowing keeps her skin younger
• Jizz On Your Face? –
• Dead Flies Art –
• Top 10 Internet Butterfaces –
• Get a Mac –
• 9 Popular Youtube Clone – Video Portal Scripts Reviewed –
• htpasswd Content Generator –
• VSO – Free Image Resize Software –
• FunBooker –
• Helex –
• David Hasselhoff taken to hospital rehab unit –
• The Next Web –
• Artist’s giant party balloon sculptures that look like terrifying creatures from the ocean depths –
• Find movies, TV shows matching your taste & watch online –
• Frappr Maps – gato
• De val van ABN Amro –
• Humor with dead flies –
• Sex crime suspect on trial following jail cell pass at female officer –
• One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot –
• nilicule on USTREAM: DJing live. Music –
• World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT –
• VraagAlex.nl –
• Als de dollar valt – Willem Middelkoop –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

These are my links for October 3rd:

• EZTV – TV Torrents Online –
• Stagevu: Your View –
• Movie2k.com – watch free movies –
• Deezer – Music on demand –
• Yamelo – music videos –
• Songza: The music search engine –
• Weather Watcher Live –
• MyUS – US Mail Forwarding, Worldwide Shipping –
• 100 Greatest hits of Youtube in 4 minutes –
• Check These Out: High Res New Na’vi Photos from Avatar! –
• 6 Signs She Wants to be More Than Friends –
• Satellite eye on Earth –
• 15 Essential Differences Between Men and Women –
• 65 Must See Resources Especially For Designers –
• David Hasselhoff: The 10 most memorable moments –
• 7 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Politically Correct Toys –
• The Male-O-Drome: 15 Things Men Lose to Relationships –
• Girls love it when men use cheesy chat up lines –
• Jennifer, will you marry me? A marriage proposal on telephone poles turns sour –
• A Dozen Sodas That Sound Like Pornos –
• Bad Cops, Bad Cops, Whatcha Gonna Do? Police Office Horror Stories –
• Paranormal Activity –
• 10 anti-masturbation devices –
• 70 Photo Manipulations Art That Will Blow You Away –
• 95 websites you should totally bookmark today –
• Magma –
• Sexual Favor Fail –
• Cops accidentally shoot homeowner six times in the back –
• De handelsreiziger van de Nederlandsche Cocaïne Fabriek –
• Raphaël –

Link: www.medicman.nl/blog

These are my links for September 22nd:

• Tribewise – Full service social media bureau –
• Welcome to HootSuite – The Professional Twitter Client –
• SalesProfs –
• The Chic Geek – The Online Men’s Style Magazine –
• Create online business card – card.ly –
• hoaxMail – Anonymous Spoof Email and SMS –
• Mollie – Betaaldiensten & SMS/MMS gateway’s –
• Rejo – mijn persoonsgegevens –
• Spoever – Anoniem telefoneren en SMSsen –
• HackBlog.nl –
• Chi.mp – Content Hub and Identity Management Platform –
• Getty Images –
• 10 Revealing Infographics about the Web –
• Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter –
• Ten Most Confusing Google Street View Accidents –
• David Hasselhoff’s Daughter Says Dad was Drunk –
• Banketbakkerij Jan de Groot, dé specialist in de echte Bosschebollen –
• Audacity –
• Twitter Adder –

These are my links for September 21st:

• Hoe?Zo! Radio –
• A Moment of Science –
• Sciencefriday – making science user-friendly –
• Beeld en Geluid wiki –
• Ex-addicts give tours of Dutch city’s dark underbelly –

These are my links for September 20th:

• kPlaylist – get your music online today! PHP based media streaming –
• Squeezebox –
• Het grote Synology topic deel 2 –
• Appulous : The iPhone and iPod Touch Application Index –
• Google Similar Images –
• In Quotes –
• Google City Tours –
• Google Trends –
• Moovida – the free media player –
• IRL Connect –
• Turn Your Camera Phone into a Police-Style Dash Cam –
• Gmail Backup –
• Online EXIF Viewer –
• Aussie straps in beer, not child –
• 25 Funny Lost and Found Signs –
• How To Tell Which ‘Star Wars’ You’re Watching –
• Naked blonde turns tables on builders –
• Celebrating Your Kids Birthday At Hooters: AWESOME –
• Woman’s Declaration That She’s a 56-Year-Old Virgin Off by One Night –
• 911 flowchart –
• American Apparel Ads: the 50 Hottest in Company History –
• Normandy during WW2 and now –
• Popular Mechanics –
• Sales Online –
• The Sales Manager’s 7 Biggest Blind Spots –
• Verkoopkansen in kaart met pijplijnmanagement –

These are my links for September 17th:

• Inside Sales Experts Blog –
• Applied behavior analysis –

These are my links for September 12th through September 16th:

• Comparative test of public symbols –
• Amazon hijacked: 10 funniest review threads –
• Sander van Doorn @ Creamfields 2009 –
• Snorting wasabi –
• goosh.org – the unofficial google shell –
• Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon –
• ZigBee –
• Gymkata movie trailer –
• Lazy town REMIX feat. Lil’ Jon –
• Hawtness – The Women of WTF –
• Copy paste –

These are my links for September 12th:

• Superstijl –
• Mich. Mom Aimee Louise Sword Seduced Son She Gave Up For Adoption –
• Best First Roller Coaster Ride Ever –
• Toxicity by System of a Down (cover) –
• 8-bit trip (lego) –
• "Oh my God! There’s an axe in my head." –
• High-Speed Robot Hand –
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies –
• Mom Day.. ahem… Pet Lovers –
• 10 kinds of drugs you shouldn’t take while driving a car –
• Gali The Alligator –
• An Electrifying Tour of the Taser Factory –
• Most teenagers see internet porn, but say it’s an accident –
• How to kiss a woman by Captain Kirk –
• David Guetta – Joan Of Arc (Crookers ‘Hardtime’ Remix) –
• Q-dance Stage @ Mystery Land 2009 –
• No thumbprint, no money, U.S. bank tells armless man –
• Facebook | Lite –
• Opera Web Browser | Faster & safer | Download the new Internet browsers free –
• Structured Procrastination –
• Cop fired for using pepper spray on 61-year-old woman after he stopped her for having over-tinted windows –