Author: Amit Schreiber

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Some Soft Drinks May Seriously Harm Your Health

I previously linked to an article about what happens to your body if you drink a coke. Now there’s a new study that “suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA”. Reading this was the last straw for me. Up until now I drank quite a lot of Diet Coke in an attempt to avoid the calories, but this is simply too much. A co-worker of mine classifies all these drinks as “poison”. I can see why now.

While I drink a lot of water during and after my workouts and during lunches, I still want something else sometimes. Since the health issue is more important than the calories issue, I (almost completely) switched to 100% pure orange juice. Hopefully this won’t come with a weight gain.

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Microsoft Surface Parody Video

If you actually read this blog, you may remember that I found something funny in Microsoft’s Surface promotional videos (post link):

One thing I thought was funny in the videos was when the handsome young man and woman sit in front of each other in a pub and then, naturally, start playing with the computer on both sides of the table.

I wasn’t the only one who thought that, apparently. Here’s a parody video that dubs over Microsoft’s.

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How To Sleep More Effectively

Since I started working out, I had to regulate my sleep more. I do my workouts in the morning, and workouts are extremely exhausting if I don’t get a good night sleep. I currently sleep 7 to 8 hours every night. During weekdays I get up at 5:15am, so this means I’m usually asleep by 10pm. I believe working out and sleeping right are two main reasons why I haven’t been sick for a long time. This includes times when a lot of people around me were getting sick.

Reading this article about how to sleep more effectively made me realize I was at least doing one thing right.

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Drawing With…. HTML?

I previously wrote about drawing with Microsoft Paint, a painstakingly slow yet apparently skillful way of drawing images. Now comes a new craze for people who have a lot of drawing talent, a little HTML knowledge and way, way, way too much free time on their hands. I’m talking about drawing using HTML tables. Check out this time-lapsed video as an example.

So this guy sees the video and quickly produces a tool to convert any image to HTML, just for the fun of it. There is no current practical use to this tool, unless you’re writing to a website that doesn’t allow images but allows tables (some forums come to mind). Maybe this will be the next cool thing for geek kids who want to show off their amazing skills of using another website to produce images. (via Digg)

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CPU-Z – CPU Information For Windows

CPU-Z is a little application for Windows to let you get information about your computer’s CPU. Usually I recommend buyers of new PCs to use this software in order to make sure the CPU they got is what they paid for.

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LOLCODE – The Language That Wasn’t Really Supposed To Be

The author of LOLCODE didn’t intend for the language to become a real language so fast, but in a matter of weeks it now has over 10 implementations.

But what’s so special about LOLCODE? Here’s a typical code sample, which prints a file to the screen:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
  AWSUM THX
    VISIBLE FILE
  O NOES
    INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

I think it’s hilarious. Check out the contributions to the language for more funny examples.