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Category Archives: Technology

Barefoot Running

Here are two great videos in further support of Vibram Five Fingers, the best shoes in the world:

You can find plenty more on this terrific blog.

Secure Your Email and Files

CNN has an article on how the US enabled the recent Chinese hacking of Gmail via a backdoor created for US government searches.  So how can you protect your email from hackers, corporations, and governments?  Easy.  Encrypt it.  Here’s how to do it for free:
- Download Mozilla’s Thunderbird and use it as your email client.  [...]

Vibram Five Finger KSO Treks

I first blogged about Vibram Five Finger shoes back in May of this year, and posted on the horror of modern shoes shortly after.  These shoes have quickly become the only thing I wear, and today I received the newest model in the mail…the black KSO Treks pictured above and below:

The Problem with Alternative Energy

My last post dealt with the need for alternative sources of energy, to save money, decrease pollution, and help slow climate change.  A cautionary post should be added, as the race to develop and utilize alternative energy is not all good.  I took the above picture on a trip to Borneo in 2008, riding in [...]

Alternative Energy

Today is Blog Action Day, where bloggers come together to spread awareness on topics that matter.  This year’s topic is climate change.  Why it’s not obvious to everyone that there is a direct correlation between CO2 (and other greenhouse gasses) and temperature is beyond me.  Here’s a graph:

But lets just ignore reality and assume that [...]

Boat in a Bag

If you like adventure, exploration, freedom, water, and cool stuff, you need to get yourself a Folbot folding kayak.  There aren’t many things I like more than my Five Fingers, but my Folbots are definitely one of them.  The picture above is a Citibot in a backpack.  It weighs about 30lbs, and is extraordinarily easy [...]

Texting and Cell Phone Etiquette

In line with the last post on Twitter, Facebook, and the demise of the web, the New York Times has an article on the health effects of constant texting.  Not only is excessive texting bad for your thumbs, but it’s also likely to be bad for your mental health!
So what do texting, Twitter, and other [...]