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Shoes for the new barefoot running craze:

The typical human foot is an anatomical marvel of evolution with 26 bones, 33 joints, 20 muscles, and hundreds of sensory receptors, tendons and ligaments. Like the rest of the body, to keep our feet healthy, they need to be stimulated and exercised.

That’s why we recommend wearing FiveFingers for exercise, play, and for fun. Stimulating the muscles in your feet and lower legs will not only make you stronger and healthier, it improves your balance, agility and proprioception.

A great little program that will toggle the built-in password generator on the Mac. I use this with Yojimbo.

Hold down option then click File and select Show Exact Duplicates. This method is slower but works much better than the default duplicates filter.

Saw this on the menu at Zingerman’s Roadhouse. Here’s how to make them at home.

Some great tips from Valet this month:

• Take a shot before your date. Seriously. Just one. It calms the nerves.
• Wash your hair every 3 days. Get a haircut every 5 weeks.
• Iron a shirt slightly damp and don’t iron the tips of the collar.
• Set a bedtime and use the hour before for relaxing tasks.
• Drink a cup of coffee before an afternoon nap.
• Clean sweaters after 8 wearings, and wash in the sink with cool water and Woolite.

I’m surprised it took them this long to switch to the all or nothing pricing plan. However, last time I went, I found the multiple 100°F days to be a bit much.

Listening to the new Massive Attack album right now, and it’s great. Drops February 8th.

In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a game, but not all at once. Applications are sandboxed, then moats dug around the sandboxes, and then barbed wire placed around the moats. As a direct result, New World computers do not need virus scanners, their batteries last longer, and they rarely crash, but their users have lost a degree of freedom. New World computers have unprecedented ease of use, and benefit from decades of research into human-computer interaction. They are immediately understandable, fast, stable, and laser-focused on the 80% of the famous 80/20 rule.

Is the New World better than the Old World? Nothing’s ever simply black or white.

“It’s not a huge priority for us because we’re so focused on the larger screens,” Hastings said. “Until we get our TV ubiquity and our Blu-ray ubiquity and we’re getting close on video game ubiquity, then we would next turn to the small screen. So it’s something we will get around to, but it’s not in the near term.”

Unfortunately, another reason why I probably won’t be buying a first gen iPad.

According to NIH funding, the trend may be the opposite.