Your Seat is also a Flotation Device

The F-Scale

mc — 2008-08-02T15:11:31+00:00

I once heard the F-Scale described as a way to see who would kick the person below them while sucking up to the person above them. Recently i found this intriguing tool from the group that brought us critical...

Review of the Warrior Diet's "science" claims Three Cylinder Satisfaction Experience

mc — 2008-07-23T19:25:03+00:00

This entry is really just a pointer to a review of the warrior diet's science claims i did at Begin to Dig, a place where i talk about training. Some folks have asked me why i bothered with this...

No, that's my Winnipeg

mc — 2008-07-03T22:05:32+00:00

At last! a film featuring Winnipeg in the title. What more do you want? Oh ya, and it's by Guy Maddin. Really, there is no more you could want - especially if you're from Winnipeg.

Laurie Anderson on the Star Spangled Banner

mc — 2008-06-27T12:12:42+00:00

heh, do you smell something burning? perhaps its macaroni?

Utilikilts Review: Un-bifrucated Quality & Service

mc — 2008-06-25T19:20:58+00:00

Utilikilts: if you're going to get a man to give up the legs of his trousers for the joys of unbifrucated freedom, you need to provide not just the garment but the cutlural support to go singular. Utilikilt does this in spades. Not only offering a great product range but a cool in store experience, and, most important, excellent post sales support if something goes a little off kilt-er, as it were.

Delight: what if we were to design for it deliberately?

mc — 2008-06-08T05:41:27+00:00

This is the story of a three year struggle to set the time on a digital watch, and the delight that ensued from setting it correctly. The delight experienced by getting the thing to work correctly raises the question: why when a digital system works as it should rather than as it does, are we so often delighted. Can't we design to support delight to begin with, and design to sustain it? that is, computers should work for us, rather than us for them.

There is No Kettlebell

mc — 2008-05-15T19:09:58+00:00

The RKC certification: why this is more than just learning how to swing a metal ball with handles

This time it's Personal: Follow up Review of Precision Nutrition - Habits and Individualization

mc — 2008-03-21T16:58:20+00:00

This entry is the second part of a review of Precision Nutrition v2 by John Berardi. I did the first review after having followed the approach for several months; its five months on from that initial review, so i...

Temporal Mapping in Arts and Humanities Data: Where and When's Waldo?

mc — 2007-12-19T19:22:30+00:00

The most popular current Web 2.0 representation is geography: putting everything on a map. It's a powerful thing to do: when we can SEE how close registered sex offenders are to schools and day cares, we have certain reactions...

Anthony Diluglio Art of Strength AOS Newport Kettlebell Workout DVD Review by mc: it's a mettle test

mc — 2007-11-17T15:41:48+00:00

If you're looking for a killer aerobic/conditioning routine, and like kettlebells, Art of Strength Newport is a serious challenge. Do this routine, and you'll be ready for anything - well, pretty much.

Annie Lennox: Songs of Mass Destruction. 4th Solo Album. Initial impressions Review: oh my it's fine.

mc — 2007-10-04T01:27:32+00:00

New album from Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction - get it; boy is it worth it.

Enter the Super Shake: Preliminary Review of Precision Nutrition, Version 2 (PN V2) developed by John Berardi, Science Link

mc — 2007-09-18T01:29:18+00:00

Want to lose weight? Gain weight? get nutritionally healthy? John Berardi's Precision Nutrition says it's all about head space: get the right habits and everything else follows. But it does have wicked shakes!

The 50 Thousand Pound Local Phone Call: How UK banking has Changed in 18 months

mc — 2007-08-26T16:09:06+00:00

Want to speak to a bank manager? Sure! that'll be £50K and we'll put you right through

Etymotic and What makes a company greater than its product alone: after sales service doesn't hurt.

mc — 2007-08-06T21:45:02+00:00

Etymotic: an example of a company not only producing a great product, but a superior after sales, customer support experience.

Enter the Kettlebell: a Review of The Kettlebell Training Initiation Program developed by Pavel Tsatsouline

mc — 2007-08-06T14:45:13+00:00

What's left of exercise when you strip out aerobics, exercises that focus on working muscle at a time (you know, bicep curls and the like), and get rid of any notion of "working a set to failure"? The answer is, at least in part, "kettlebells" - something as compact as a dumbbell, but with the impact of olympic lifting for strength and conditioning. No kidding. And Enter the Kettlebell has become the de facto standard for starting and establishing kettlebell practice.