+ Ipad
Apple announced a new device called the Ipad today – which is basically a 9 inch iphone with a nice UI that can browse the Internet, play videos and run apps.
I’m excited to see where comics and graphic novels will fit into the fold when this device blows up and everyone on the planet owns a digital book device. Imagine a comic book where each pane is animated and the text bubble from an explosion explodes across the screen as you flick your finger across the word. Nerd boner.
+ Ampere
Chug life did an excellent post on Ampere, a hardcore/punk/screamo band from MA, which features download links for all of their releases. So many splits! Definitely pick up All Our Tomorrows End Today - 11 songs that blaze by in 10.5 minutes of intensity.
+ How to live a longer life
Taken directly from The Skeptical Hypochondriac
“Dan Buettner studies Blue Zones, areas where people tend to have the longest lifespans. In this article and video he explains some of the things he’s discovered.
We found that all five Blue Zones possessed the same nine lifestyle characteristics. Among them: a low-meat, plant-based diet (all of them ate a lot of beans) and a ritual of “downshifting” each day. They experience the same stresses we do — kids, health, finances — but they managed it through daily prayer, meditation, ancestor veneration or city-wide happy hours (like the Sardinians).
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives. They walk to the store and to their friends’ homes and they live in houses set up with opportunities to move mindlessly. They do their own yard work, hand-knead their own bread dough, and, in the case of Okinawa, get up and down off the floor several dozen times a day.
There’s more, but you probably want to walk around the block a couples times before reading it.”
