j/k 😀

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These almost made me gag… ugh!

Over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem.

We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like “high-fructose corn syrup” and “ascorbic acid” on the labels. We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat – akin to an ice cream or a candy bar – and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. (The average American now drinks about a gallon of soda a week!) Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words “vitamin” or “energy” stamped on their labels. And, in just the last decade or so, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying things with vaguely European names, like “mocha latte,” or swapped out coffee altogether for something called “energy drinks,” which taste exactly like what would happen if a crazed pastry chef hijacked a truckload of Smarties and drove it into a battery acid factory. And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health.

America’s supermarket aisles and drive-thru menus are awash in empty liquid calories. We’ve updated our list of worst offenders. Survive the rising tide by eliminating these, the country’s most damaging drinkables, from your beverage regiment.

20 Worst Drinks in America 2010

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I’m finding this to be more and more common… for those who actually buy and try a Nexus One, they prefer it over the iPhone. Its looks like sales will continue to grow for the Nexus One (and all Android) once people can try and buy Nexus One’s in brink and mortor stores.

Meanwhile, I can’t wait to see what Team Apple rolls out for the new iPhone next week! 🙂

On April 24, I put aside my Google Nexus One and purchased a white 32GB iPhone 3GS from AT&T. Two days ago, I returned the Apple smartphone and cancelled the service. My reasons should interest anyone considering AT&T and iPhone between now and June 1st, especially, and after June 7th. The first date is when AT&T jacks up early termination fees; the second, when Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 4G.

10 reasons I dumped iPhone 3GS for Nexus One

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-Richard

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I guess they’re talking about Apple? 🙂

“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.” — Google

Why Google Made Android

My buddy Nate sent this to me, and its just shocking…

-Richard

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This is a fascinating read…

Highly self-disciplined adolescents outperformed their more impulsive peers on every academic-performance variable, including report-card grades, standardized achievement-test scores, admission to a competitive high school, and attendance. Self-discipline measured in the fall predicted more variance in each of these outcomes than did IQ, and unlike IQ, self-discipline predicted gains in academic performance over the school year.

Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance in Adolescents

This video makes me sick… 🙁

-Richard

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Only 18months – thats pretty quick…

Google is done playing catch-up. Today they’re setting the agenda: With Android Froyo, Google TV, mobile ads and streaming media, Google isn’t just matching Apple—they’re taking the lead.

Google Is Leapfrogging Apple

-Richard

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Cummon… do people really want Twitter integration with Onstar? That seems like its going too far…

“While in your vehicle, you can use OnStar to submit and retrieve tweets (messages) via your Twitter account. Using OnStar’s Voice-Activated Hands-Free Calling system, and having your voice converted into text, you can provide updates which would appear in the “What are you doing?” section of your Twitter homepage. It is also possible to listen to a tweet that was sent to you by someone else after it has been converted into voice. You can send and receive tweets without having to type or read anything.”

Exclusive: Twitter integration coming to OnStar

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I think its telling that 3 Texas cities made the list, and no California cities did… Even neighboring states like OK and LA were represented…

If the specs are open, why doesn’t Apple just make their own player?

The genius of the Internet is its almost infinite openness to innovation. New hardware. New software. New applications. New ideas. They all get their chance.

Our thoughts on open markets

This is actually surprising…

Android-based phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. for the first time last quarter.

Google’s Android-based smartphones accounted for 28% of smartphone sales, while the iPhone accounted for 21%, according to market research firm NPD.

WHOA: Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S.

I can’t wait until I can get all my sodas with real cane sugar again… yum!

The back-to-back, double whammy announcements that PepsiCo (PEP) is ditching high fructose corn syrup in Gatorade along with the results of a scathing new study from researchers at Princeton make it official — allies of the controversial sweetener have lost the war.

The Death of High Fructose Corn Syrup

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