MPG of a Human - Do the Math -
A walking human gets about 75 MPG (miles of travel per gallon of food energy). A biking human? Even better, at 290 MPG.
But when you factor in all the fossil fuels that go into making that food, we only get 18 MPG walking and 70 MPG on a bike. Check out the full rundown of the energetic calculations at Do The Math.
What’s the MPEG of a human, though? What’s the ProRes? DVCPRO HD? H264?
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“Jack Golf.” I’m so going to start using that.
I’d probably subscribe.
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Easily the most Chinese trashcan I’ve ever seen.
False, in China they don’t use trashcans.
Wait, I’m thinking of toilets. They don’t use toilets.
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The “Thomas L. Lawson”, the only seven-masted schooner ever built. Constructed by the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co. at the behest of businessman Thomas L. Lawson. Said businessman made a fortune speculating in copper-mining companies, and then relocated to Scituate, Massachusetts (my hometown), where he occupied himself with various follies, including the above ship, the development of a vast estate named “Dreamwold”, the construction of a water tower disguised as an enormous castle turret, and the publication of a serialized novel about a stock manipulator crashing the American financial system. Later, Lawson was accused, along with a group of Standard Oil executives, of manipulating the price of bonds of the Bay State Gas Company (a public utility), ultimately driving that concern into bankruptcy. He gave testimony that conflicted with his Standard Oil accomplices, leading to a very public and acrimonious break that, paradoxically, gave Lawson the reputation of a reformer fighting the Standard Oil octopus. Thomas W. Lawson died in poverty. The ship eventually crashed off the Scilly Isles, spilling 50,000 barrels of paraffin oil in what may have been the first commercial oil spill in history.
My hometown: Depressing then, depressing now.
That’s a lot of masts.
Rondo scores 44 points
Celtics lose by 4 in overtime
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Trampoline high fives and fun
Whoa!
wnyc:
One in five people stopped last year by the New York City police department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18, according to a WNYC analysis of recently released police data.
And there were more than 120,000 stops of black and Latino kids between 14 and 18. The total number of black and Latino boys that age in the entire city isn’t much more than that – about 177,000 – which strongly suggests a teen male with dark skin in New York City will probably get stopped and frisked by the time he’s graduated from high school.
Map and story at WNYC.org.
If you want to feel really pessimistic about constitutional rights and the NYPD, read this story. Then read up on Terry v. Ohio, the decision that set the precedent for stop and frisk; and reasonable suspicion, the required precursor to any legal stop and frisk search.
Something something police state something something anarchy.
He gets me! (Taken with instagram)
The happy poop really is such a great emoticon.
Looks like Mitt Romney is running for President of the United States of “Amercia.”
In an embarrassing blunder, Romney’s campaign misspelled the word “America” on its new “With Mitt” iPhone app, launched Tuesday.
The app has a transparent skin that allows users to take a photograph and superimpose the slogan “A better Amercia” on the image.
The presumptive Republican nominee is taking heat on the Internet for the error.
“Whew, I hear Mitt’s updating that misspelled Amercia on his app. He’s just going with Untied States now,” read one tweet.
“Does Mitt Romney believe that Obama was born in Keyna,” another tweeter jabbed.AMERCIA FUCK YEHA.
My money’s on a discontented campaign staffer switching the files at the last minute before shipping the app. No way they fuck this up on accident.
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