September 2009
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Laptop battery myths
marco:
TUAW ends this article about laptop batteries with this advice:
Never leave the machine plugged in all the time. Laptops are meant to be portable. Using it as a desktop that never runs on the battery will destroy your battery life.
Cycles are your friend. Never letting the battery complete a cycle will greatly diminish your run-time. Try to avoid charging the battery unless it’s drained...
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What's the Difference Between Brown and White... →
(via:willw2)
[Back when refrigeration was bad…]
There was a good market for reliably fresh eggs. Such eggs needed a short distribution chain so there wasn’t time for anything bad to happen between farm and consumer. The solution was to raise them on farms close to town. Land close to town is expensive, so the tendency was to crowd the hens and use breeds that tolerated crowding well. This was...
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King Hemp →
…unlike the cotton plant, almost every part of the hemp plant is usable. The seeds contain essential amino acids for humans and can be eaten raw or cooked…or even made into hemp milk, tofu and even butter. The seeds actually contain almost as much protein as milk, meat, eggs or soy and are high in calcium and iron. The oil itself has been shown to relieve symptoms of eczema and also has...
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“God has no religion.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via littlemiss)
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shotgunbaby:
Rilo Kiley - I Never
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“Female Leopard fell into a 60 ft deep well in Maharashtra. WSOS leopard center...”
– WildlifeSOS
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“Rules force the future into categories of the past.”
– Schauer
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“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”
– Bobby Knight
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“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always...”
– Albert Einstein (via littlemiss)