A Nimble Perk: Look better through modern medicine.

One of the businesses I own is Surface Medical.

A perk of being a owner is that you can do stuff for your buddies. (If they're good buddies and you like them.) 

So, if there's anyone (even lurkers) who would like to get in good with your wife, even it it's getting laser hair removal on your back, let me know and I'll hook you up. 

This is kind of an ongoing offer so if you bump into me at Fight Club or Market Street (where it seems everyone eats in down town Salt Lake) mention something to me and you're set. You could also email me. 

I hooked up Ryan Money. You'll have to ask him yourself if he's in better with his wife or not. 

Here's a partial list of services we provide (before and after pictures) so you can see what your wife will look like after you do the good deed:

Conditions   Acne Bodysculpting Loose Skin Facelifts Pigment Rosacea Sun Damage Veins Wrinkles

Treatments   Botox Filler Injections Collagen Laser IPL Fotofacial Clear2 Fotofacial™ Laser Hair Removal Liposolve™ fat melting microinjections Pointé Lift™ Thermage

I copied the code for the before and after pictures off of the Surface web site so don't hold the navigation troubles against me.

Just can't help it... I'm Iron Man

Super hero or super villain?

Take the quiz to find your super alter ego.  Here are my results... obvious to all that know me.

As a superhero, I'm Iron Man

Iron Man 95% Green Lantern 90% Superman 85% Spider-Man 75% Catwoman 75% Supergirl 70% Hulk 70% Wonder Woman 65% Robin 60% The Flash 60% Batman 55%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

And as a villian?

Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 84% Lex Luthor 76% Apocalypse 71% Venom 71% Dark Phoenix 67% Kingpin 66% Poison Ivy 66% The Joker 62% Green Goblin 62% Mystique 62% Juggernaut 62% Catwoman 60% Magneto 55% Mr. Freeze 54% Riddler 53% Two-Face 46%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Google Hated 1/4 as much as Microsoft and loved more than Apple.

It seems that with all the Google sniping going on, someones actually looked at it.

Clearly, there is four times the number of people hating Microsoft compared to Google. In the meantime, Apple which is another all time favorite technology company with a religious following comes somewhere in the middle with 42,700 results returned for the query “I hate Apple.”

The BYU Marriott School of Business ranks 3rd in regional business schools.

Brigham Young University at No. 3 in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Regional ranking.

In this year's survey, recruiters gave the Marriott School its top scores for students' teamwork skills, work ethic, and analytical and problem-solving abilities.

It was rated lowest for students' previous work experience, experiential learning in the curriculum, the career-services office, and graduates' willingness to relocate.

Brigham Young's major deficiency, recruiters say, is its lack of diversity, with women accounting for only 17% of its M.B.A. students, minorities 10% and foreign nationals 12%. The school hopes to boost those percentages through its "diversity initiative" for recruiting more underrepresented students and faculty and offering special scholarships to minorities.

Evidently all those hard working, team oriented, puzzle solving white boys just don't want to give up living in Provo. Bowling and eating ice cream must be a lot more fun than I realize.

Nimble is number 2 on squarespace.com

Wow. I was checking out my referral log and found out that this blog gets 8% of the traffic of squarespace.com, where I host the site.

I found this almost unbelievable so I took a screen shot (right).

My guess is that real blogs (and I have some) don't use the squarespace name so I would guess these figures are skewed. But still...  

Connect Magazine: Colin has Geoff in a dog collar.

The same day I receive an email from Geoff Osmond, Connect Magazine telling me that he is not Colin Kelly's chauffeur, I notice that Colin has him wearing a dog collar for this article on non-compete agreements.

You may not recognize him but that little 'soul patch' is a dead giveaway. (You can't see it in this image but it 's defiantly him.) 

10 most popular scientific myths.

Live Science has a list of the ten most popular scientific myths.

What you'll learn:

• The 5 second rule doesn't work. (but we already knew that.)
• A headless chicken has lived 18 months without it's head.
• Men don't really think of sex every 7 seconds.

5 Second Rule: File this under 'good to know'.

Wikipedia is just chock full of usefull tidbits.

For those of you who have been know to invoke the 5 second rule there comes this sage advice from Wikipedia:

The five-second rule is rarely applied to other people's food, although many instances have been documented.
If a food falls in feces, the five-second rule is never used.

The five-second rule was also featured in an episode of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters. The results they got from their tests confirmed Clarke’s findings: time was not a factor when food is exposed to bacteria; even two seconds' exposure is more than enough time to contaminate it.

Indexed Graphs a cruel, cruel world for YouTube.

From Indexed

Undercover People Watching: Try not to giggle when you're in the can.

From the same crew that brought you the hair hat...

For the voyeur in all of us. Now you can purchase that famous French spy contraption that helped keep Inspector Custeau from being seen on urban stake outs.

This is just the thing for scared tourists in New York. Just stop, drop, and set up shop. (This is not a plan by NY's mayor to address the homeless problems by spray painting their cardboard boxes.)

The key to making this plan work is to prevent the intended targets from seeing you set up. That just breaks the whole concept as most people are quick enough to be suspicious of a human transformer peeking at them through the intelligently designed observation ports. (Everythings in wide screen.)

Of special note is the ability to use this for what appears to be an observatory or pidgeon hunting lodge .

Of course if you get caught doing something you shouldn't, you can expect to have some rather unhappy subjects exact their pound of flesh.

Able to wear your own hair as a hat? Priceless.

Those crazy Dutch fashionistas are busy all winter...

 

This has got to be a showstopper in a crowded singles bar. This guy must get chicks like crazy making kopff covers out of the stuff you sweep off the floors of hair salons. I especially like number two with it's faintly Egyption warrior fez feel. But you can see how stylin they are. Makes you wonder how the Canadians can do without?

Perhaps The Donald's hair secret is finally out.  

Google spying for the CIA?

Via: arstechnica

Former intelligence officer Robert David Steele recently appeared on the Alex Jones show to make the provocative claim that Google is currently cooperating with secret elements in the US government, including the CIA saying, "Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government. That is a huge mistake and I'm hoping they'll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off."

Steele has made these claims for some time; back in January, he said the same things at a conference organized by his company at which several sources came forward and spoke about the alleged cooperation. According to security site HSToday.us, which had a reporter in attendance at the conference, one unnamed security contractor "said three employees of an intelligence agency he declined to identify are in Mountain View, Calif. where Google is based, working with the company to leverage the search engine company's user data monitoring capability in the interests of national security."

It's clear that the company is not opposed to working with the intelligence and defense communities in principle. Products such as Google Earth are explicitly marketed to such industries, with Google claiming that its products allow "analysts and operatives to get the job done effectively and in record time."

Update on Thu, November 2, 2006 at 4:57 PM by Jeff Barson

Google denies that it spies for the CIA here.

The British can't legally download their own MP3s onto an iPod.

 From the BBC: Evidently Briton's can't legally copy their own CD's.

According to research from the National Consumer Council, more than half of British consumers are infringing copyright law by copying CDs onto their computers, iPods or other MP3 players.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a "private right to copy".

It would decriminalise millions of Britons who break the law each year by copying their CDs onto music players

The first toad is free...

 Seems like it might be time for an cross-species intevention. From NPR:

"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.

Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.

"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."

It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.

What followed was the Mirsch family's quest to stop their cocker spaniel from indulging herself. But it wasn't easy. Lady was persistent, and resourceful.

The situation seemed to resolve itself when the toads went into hibernation for the winter.

But when they returned, so did Lady -- and with a vengeance.

"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer," Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."

In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.

"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."

Tankball: just the thing to bring to Fight Club.

Tank paintball. Now this looks fun. (Hey, is that Michael Moore in the turret?)

Stuart had the guns removed and contacted Jez Smith, 26-year-old local engineer and serial inventor, to make the biggest paintball gun ever seen. Their chosen ammunition, fired by compressed air, would be paint-filled ping-pong balls.

The first attempt blasted a ball into orbit. Jez lost sight of it after a mile-and-a-half when it passed the church spire. It also sent a small potato through the sound barrier. Over time, he calmed it to a legal and relatively modest 200mph. Jez then designed a 40mm, 8ft steel barrel to slot into the turret and the company now has five. "Obviously, these aren't proper guns with rifled barrels or they'd be illegal," says Stuart, 38. "But a ping-pong ball full of liquid doing 300ft per second is lethal. That's why we operate with sealed hatches."