by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Andy Orin to Lifehacker
Almond milk is the non-dairy milk replacement of choice for a lot of folks, but the stuff from the store can taste a little flat. To make rich, creamy almond milk almost instantly, you just need a few tablespoons of almond butter.
by Stephanie Lee on Vitals, shared by Andy Orin to Lifehacker
If you have a hard time exercising consistently, maybe you need to reframe your ideals around working out. One sub-par workout, for instance, is better than skipping workouts altogether. Try Nate Green’s 3 x 30 workout routine. It’s just 30 minutes of your day.
A little while back Jorel wrote a post introducing our new logo and design. We’ve rolled it out slowly on our blog and twitter accounts and some emails, but this weekend we’ll be pushing it out to our public website and within The Old Reader application.
Most of the feedback has been really positive and for that we’re grateful. But as with any change, we’re sure there will be a bit of pushback. The important thing to know is that while some colors and the logo may be different, the interface remains largely unchanged.
There is one big exception to that which is our new reading view. This is one of the most exciting updates we’ve made in a while and it’s changed the way that I personally I use The Old Reader. It’s revolutionary only its simplicity, but it truly puts the focus on reading and has improved that experience for me dramatically. I use it constantly on my iPhone and have really enjoyed it weekend mornings with a cup of coffee in a nice chair.
It’s like old school Instagram in that the only view is most recent to oldest, although you can modify that by changing your sorting preference. Most of the other chrome is gone, you just read and swipe to move forward or backward. You can share, like, comment as usual but the really great thing is the format feature. It basically takes partial posts and brings them back in their entirety and formatted for the browser.
As of this weekend it’ll be available for all premium subscribers in the Experiment’s section. We just want to get some initial feedback from this group and then we’ll be rolling to the entire community.
We hope you guys are excited about the new look and new view. We’ve never been more excited about The Old Reader and we’ve never been more convinced of the importance of RSS, the open web, and people who make the effort to be informed and educated. You guys are the best!
Name: Rachel Andersen Type of Project: Backyard Patio Renovation Location: Tulsa, OK Type of building: Single-Family Ranch
The Renovation Diaries are a collaboration with our community in which we feature your step by step renovation progress and provide monetary support towards getting it done in style. See all of our Reno Diaries here.
Rachel bought her first house at the young age of 21, and works hard to make it a welcoming place for family and friends. Key to her dream is a stylish and functional backyard, filled with interesting textures, comfortable furniture, and multiple places to gather and lounge. Rachel shares her major inspiration for the outdoor space, and what she expects to spend on the project.
Casio are best known for their G-Shock series of watches, some of the most rugged timepieces you can buy. And while the style and construction lend themselves to a tough and tactical style, G-Shocks won't be the first watch you pick out of your drawer for more formal affairs. That is, until now. Casio have debuted the G-STEEL collection, a series of watches that combine the classic look of leather with the heavy-duty G-Shock heritage.
True to their overbuilt roots, the G-STEEL watches feature Tough Leather, a unique hybrid of synthetic leather and resin. It's designed to be stylish and soft to the touch just like regular leather, but able to withstand abrasions over time in addition to water resistance.
As for the watches themselves, each model comes with the latest and greatest G-SHOCK technology, including a Tough Solar battery, shock resistance, and 200 meters of water resistance. For evening visibility the dial features Neo-brite lume on its hands and markers, while an automatic double LED gives extra illumination when needed. Adding to the 12/24-hour format analog and digital displays are 48-city world time, daily alarms, and a stopwatch and countdown timer, all in a robust 52.4 mm case.
Casio's first foray into “tough formal” is definitely a collection to watch. You can pick up the light brown-strapped GSTS120L-1B model from Amazon at the link below, and be sure to check out the rest of the models on the G-Shock website.
Enlarge / Early versions of the Machines from The Animatrix. (credit: The Animatrix)
Blade Runner and Mad Max are back, so why not The Matrix? The Hollywood Reporter says sources have confirmed that Warner Bros is starting work on a reboot of The Matrix, and it even has a star in mind: Michael B. Jordan, who recently broke out as the star of Creed. Zak Penn (Alphas, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk) is currently writing a treatment.
The Matrix was not expected to be a blockbuster when Warners released it in March 1999. At the time, writer/director siblings the Wachowskis were best known for an indie film noir called Bound about lesbian lovers plotting the ultimate crime. But the innovative camera effects (bullet time!) and futuristic originality of The Matrix blew audiences away, rocketing it to the fourth-highest box office on Earth that year. Who could forget badass Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, offering the blue and red pills, or Carrie Ann Moss as Trinity, using nmap when she wasn't doing gun ballet. And then there was Keanu Reeves as Neo, downloading data over his brain port and intoning gravely, "I know kung-fu."
Though the sequels never lived up to the promise of the first film, the franchise was a game changer, influencing science fiction to this day. Everything from Inception to Mr. Robot owes something to the style and themes that the Wachowskis popularized. Plus, bullet time has forever left its mark on action scenes, both technologically and stylistically. Any time you see a fight scene that moves between fast and slow motion, viewed in 360 degrees, you are looking at a special effect that the Wachowskis invented.
There are not quite a few new prototype technologies that promise us revolutions sometime into the future, and although precious little of it yet have been realized, it is always exciting to see what scientists are getting into. As Engadget reports, US researchers now toying with a laser solution that supposedly can give us ultrafast computers.
It is the University of Michigan and a handful of researchers from other institutions who are behind the new, promising experiment. The solution is to use so-called femtosecondlasers to move electrons through semiconductors on a much faster and more efficiently than with conventional technology.
Shorten “travel time”
The researchers explain that in a traditional semiconductor, electrons tend to bump into each other and emit energy in the form of heat, which is inefficient. The new solution is used instead of lasers to “guide” the electrons to make travel time so short that it is statistically unlikely that electrons crash into each other.
To achieve this, researchers used a semiconductor material of gallium-selenium as they bombarded with laser pulses as short as 100 femtosecond. One femtosecond is equal to one millionth of one billionth of a second, that is incomprehensible little. These pulses sets the electrons in motion, and by manipulating the semiconductor material scientists could “steer” the direction of the electrons.
100,000 times higher clock frequencies
– All were immediately elation because it may be possible to exploit this principle to build computers in future operating with matchless clock frequencies – 10 to 100,000 times faster than the best electronics available now, said the professor who led the experiment, Rupert Huber.
The technical fine points are naturally quite complicated, but can be studied in the research document (requires payment) if you want to delve. As always more experimental solutions will probably be a long time before the technology may be possible to utilize in a practical way, so it’s probably no point in holding your breath just yet.
Nosebleeds, also known as epistaxis, are usually more annoying than they are painful. Still, you want to stop them as soon as possible so you don’t, you know, bleed all over the place. Here’s what a doctor from Harvard Medical School suggests.
by Kristin Wong on Two Cents, shared by Kristin Wong to Lifehacker
Job interviews are nerve-wracking enough as it is, then the hiring manager hits you with something like, “tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult coworker.” What exactly do they want from you and how should you answer? A survey from the folks at LinkedIn might be able to help.
