Bridger.us 2006 Album of the Year
Sections: Music, Music Reviews Dec 29th, 2006 1 Comment
Archive for December 2006
R.I.P. James Brown
Sections: Music Dec 25th, 2006 3 Comments
What Happens When you Drink Coke
Sections: Health Dec 19th, 2006 1 Comment
One of the best things I’ve ever done in my life was to cease all consumption of sugar drinks like Coke a year and a half ago. However I never realized how devastating sugared soda is to your entire system:
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
Top Four Favorite Christmas Albums
Sections: Music Dec 15th, 2006 1 Comment
James Brown’s Funky Christmas - There are few better modern day Christsmas songs than Soulful Christmas and Hey America. Despite a few filler songs being added to the album over the years, this remains a staple.
A Charlie Brown Christmas - A classic for a reason. Guaraldi’s work here is just about perfect.
A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra - Don’t let the name fool you. A good portion of this disc is melancholy and perfect for dark December days.
Sufjan Stevens / Songs For Christmas - An incredibly varied collection of music that just happens to be about Christmas. Easily the best Christmas collection released this year.
There it is… a short list of a few favorites from my 2GB of Christmas music.
Optimo BBC Essentials Mix
Sections: Music Dec 8th, 2006 4 Comments
Apple’s Smart Phone
Sections: Gadgets Dec 6th, 2006 7 Comments
As anyone who knows me can tell you, I have serious problem with phones. (A) I want a new one every 2-3 months and (B) I tend to hate most of the handsets out there. Over the last few years I’ve almost exclusively owned SonyEricsson phones (except for my POS Razr that is sitting at the bottom of a drawer somewhere). Intuitive interfaces and incredibly powerful, they are the closest thing to an Apple product in the handset market.
But the holy grail seems to be upon us… Apple’s own smart phone is heavily rumored to be released next year. Appleinsider has a report today that goes into more detail than we’ve seen before:
It’s believed that the initiative, which is different and slightly more ambitious than the company’s “iPhone” project, truly gained momentum about three years ago alongside the development of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Some of the device’s original features, such as Bluetooth remote control of certain Mac OS X functions, were meant to coincide with those that would have subsequently appeared in the final version of the Tiger operating system.
