The Power of Running

The Power of Running:
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I was thinking that with so many people burning calories by running, if only that energy could be harnessed it might put a dent in the energy crisis. So for fun, I compared the energy exerted by runners to other worldly things that consume energy.

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• Total calories burned by core runners in one year equals 4,234,278,397,440
• That’s enough to power the electricity needs for 1,771,622 homes for a year.
• That is equivalent to all the homes in Los Angeles and San Francisco combined
• Total energy used by all core runners is equivalent to 177,162,208 gallons of gasoline
• That’s enough to power a Boeing 747 around the world 1,093 times
• That’s also equivalent to the energy expended by 177 atomic bombs the size of Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
• Calories a man runner burns per year of running equals 175,386 which is enough to power an LCD TV for 107 days
• Calories a woman runner burns per year of running equals 119,574 enough to power a clothes washer for 6 months
• An average woman running a marathon will burn enough calories to power a 60 watt bulb for 8 days
• An average man running a marathon will burn enough calories to power a laptop computer for 8 days
• For a half marathon, a woman runner will burn enough calories to charge cell phone for more than 21 days
• For a half marathon, a man runner will burn enough calories to run a clock radio for over 3.5 days
• The total calories burned by all finishers of the New York City Marathon equals 145,154,457, that is enough to light up NYC for 7 .5 hours

The figures used are for the core runner, which is a person that runs fifty or more times per year. Many sources were used to derive this information. Since there are many variables involved, I used averages (i.e. for runners weight, miles per week, LCD TV size, etc) so the results are estimates. Primary sources include, General Electric, Running USA, Runners World, Popular Mechanics, msnbc and the University of Washington.
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Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video:

Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View's head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks you through it in the above YouTube video. The short answer? Lots of backend firepower and, you know, a few years in the search game. If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today's version of the site does what it does. If you're thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you'd be half-way right, but as Matt's delivery is so engaging, we're def hoping there'll be a follow up.

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lemons? Melons?

Lemons? Melons?:

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Seems legit.

Seems legit.:

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Emma Watson in Short Shorts

Emma Watson in Short Shorts:

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Canon unveils EOS-1D C and C500 4K Cinema cameras, two new lenses ahead of NAB (updated)

Canon unveils EOS-1D C and C500 4K Cinema cameras, two new lenses ahead of NAB (updated):

In a departure from its last introduction as dramatic as the C300's Hollywood launch itself, Canon has quietly announced two additional cameras to sit alongside the company's former lone flagship. You may have caught a glimpse of the EOS-1D C at the C300 launch, but what six months ago was a mere mock-up has actually become a reality, likely to ship sometime this year. More out of left field, however, is the C500 -- a higher-end version of the C300 that adds several shooting modes, dual 3G-SDI ports and a larger, permanent grip. Both cameras can capture 4K video, but in substantially different ways.

Canon teases 'exclusive screening' in Las Vegas, new Cinema EOS products coming at NAB?

Canon has a new 'EOS Movies' DSLR on the way too: 4K video, 35mm full frame sensor

Canon C300 cinema camera hands-on (video)

The $15,000 1D C, which has the same chassis and still shooting features of its less-abled cousin, the EOS-1D X, pipes 4096 x 2160 8-bit 4:2:2 video to a CF card at 24 fps. Unlike the X, however, the C swaps a headphone jack for the X's PC socket, that's usually used for hooking up strobes. The higher-end C500 requires a dedicated external recorder, but offers two full-RAW output options: 4096 x 2960, that will be better suited for motion picture capture, and 3840 x 2160 for 4K TV. Both of these modes offer 10-bit 4:4:4 at 60 frames-per-second. There's also a half-RAW option, at 4096 x 1080 or 3840 x 1080 resolutions, also 10-bit 4:4:4, but at 120 fps. The C500 also includes dual CF slots, but that recording option is only available for 1080p (which can be captured to CF concurrently). Both cameras support Canon Log Gamma, empowering colorists to correct color in post production with more versatility by capturing additional information and a higher dynamic range.

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VERY Impressive Real-Life (Human) Disney Princesses

VERY Impressive Real-Life (Human) Disney Princesses:

This is a small series of photographs by Ryan Astemendi of Disney Princesses in real life. As amazing and accurate as they all are, I couldn't help but notice there was something missing. "Ariel?" Bingo.

Hit the jump for four more and a bonus Jessica Rabbit BECAUSE WHY THE F*** NOT?










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Thanks to britbrit, who puts all the Disney princesses to shame INCLUDING Ariel. Bold, I know, but I stand beside it.

How to Install Chrome OS on a Netbook

How to Install Chrome OS on a Netbook:
So I was rummaging through some junk I had in my garage the other day and I ran into my old beloved, but now completely useless, Asus 1000HE netbook! Wow, that segment vanished just as quickly as it appeared! Anyway, it’s still a decent little computer, so I didn’t want to give it away. It was running Windows XP, but I wanted to try something new.
Other articles I read online suggest installing Linux (Ubuntu, JoliCloud, etc), but I wanted to give Chrome OS a try since I had NEVER played around with that operating system. After a little bit of research and a few hiccups, I was able to get it installed and working! In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps (and troubleshooting) steps to get Chrome OS installed on your old netbook.
First things first, where do you go about getting a copy of Chrome OS? Well, it’s open source and free, so you can download the source code from here:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
Hmmm, download source code, install Linux, build Chrome OS, then install it! Wow, that’s not easy. Luckily, someone else has done that for us! The awesome dude(s) at hexxeh build each nightly build of Chrome OS for you and even have an installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux that installs it onto a USB stick and makes it bootable! Yippeee! Can’t get any easier than that.
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/index.php
First, go to the link above. You’ll see it says Vanilla. There are two types of Chrome OS downloads created by hexxeh: vanilla and lime. Vanilla is straight conversion of Chrome OS released by Google into a build.

Lime has a few extras that make it much more compatible with different hardware. Now that may sound nice, but I tried to install Lime first on my netbook and it basically got stuck on a blank screen when booting. I downloaded Vanilla and it worked just fine and it detected all my hardware (sound, wireless card, etc).

I suggest you download Vanilla first and give that a shot. If it doesn’t work, then you can try Lime. Or if it does work, you can try Lime too later on. It’s a fairly fast process and installing Chrome OS from the USB stick took literally 5 minutes. It’s not like installing Windows that can take hours at times.
Ok, so where do you download it? Scroll down the hexxeh page and you’ll see the builder applications:

Obviously, if you’re on a Mac, download the Mac builder application and if you’re on Windows, download the Windows one. I’m on a Mac, so you’ll see Mac screenshots, but it’s the same procedure on either OS. Run Chrome OS Image Creator and you’ll get this screen:

Here is where you choose the Lime or Vanilla version. It’s the last 3 days of each build. I just picked Vanilla and the latest version by date. Then click Next. You’ll be asked to select a USB stick to use, so plug that in now if you haven’t already. It should be greater than 4 GB.

Click Next and you’ll be asked whether you are sure you want to erase the memory stick.

Click Erase and the program will begin to download the version of Chrome OS you had chosen. After downloading, it will write it to the USB stick.

Finally, when it has completed, you will see the following message:

Click Finished and take out your memory stick. Now you have to go to your netbook and change the boot sequence so that the memory stick boots first before the hard drive. On my Asus, I had to have the usb stick connected before pressing F2 to get into the BIOS settings.

I went to Boot at the top and then selected Hard Disk Drives. Note that Hard Disk Drives won’t even appear unless you have connected your USB stick. Also, you should turn off your netbook, plug in the USB stick and then turn on the netbook and go into the BIOS settings. If you try to connect it while in the BIOS settings already, this option won’t show. Now you’ll be able to move up the USB stick in the boot priority.

Now exit and let your computer boot up. You should see the Chromium screen pop up on your netbook!

If you see this, you’re good to go now! You can now run and play around with Chrome OS on your previously useless netbook! On the next screen, you’ll be asked to choose the language, keyboard and a wireless network. Hopefully, depending on your netbook, it will show a list of wireless networks here, which means it can recognize your wireless card. If not, you’ll have to try the Lime version or a different build.

It’ll then check for updates and if nothing is found, will take you to the sign in screen. Here you need to enter your Google account email and password.

Lastly, choose your profile pic and then you’ll be brought to the Chrome OS desktop, which for me was some green grass.

Enjoy the new netbook with Chrome OS! If you had any trouble installing Chrome OS on your netbook, post a comment here with your specs and the problem and we’ll try to help! Enjoy!
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Android SDK updated, emulator now natively supports x86

Android SDK updated, emulator now natively supports x86:






Google updated its software development kit (SDK) to revision 17 today, bringing a few new features and plenty of bug fixes. While developers would do well to check the source link for the full changelog, what's most exciting here for Android enthusiasts is that x86 is now supported natively in the emulator on Windows and OS X. If you've ever used the Android emulator on a computer, you'll likely know well that it was painful to use — and very slow. Google says that the emulator now runs at "near native speed," thanks to contributions from Intel. The emulator now has "experimental" support for multitouch input from a tethered Android device as well, which should help developers test out their software more realistically on their...
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Blogger Adds Advanced Webmaster Features

Blogger Adds Advanced Webmaster Features: Blogger blogs are no longer that limited. After adding support for static pages and favicons, Blogger added some new advanced features to the "search preferences" section of the settings page.

Now you can edit the description meta tag without editing the template. If you edit the description meta tag for the entire blog, you can also write descriptions for your blog posts. This is useful because Google's snippets sometimes rely on this meta tag.

For the first time you can create a custom 404 error page for a Blogger blog without buying a domain. Just "enter an HTML message that will be displayed on the Page Not Found page instead of the generic message." Google has some tips for creating useful 404 pages and there's even a widget powered by Google search that shows related links and a search box with appropriate search suggestions.

You can also create custom redirects, but only for internal URLs. For example, you can redirect http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/mailto to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-mailto-links-using-gmail-in-google.html. Make sure that you leave out the first part of the URL (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com) when you create the redirect.

There are also options for customizing the robots.txt page and robots header tags. It's probably a good idea to use Blogger's robots.txt page as a template (http://yourblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt) and only add some new pages you want to be ignored by search engines.