Stickrod http://www.stickrod.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron desk@stickrod.com Svarteld http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/242 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:49:00 -0800 http://www.svarteld.com/b1.html iPhone 3GS mod ditches plastic cover in favor of titanium vestment http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/241 Engadget reader Martin Schrotz is a man after our own hearts. He's taken the editors' choice for best smartphone of 2009 and tricked it out with a handsome new back cover made out of titanium. Not sufficiently pleased with the plastic casing provided by Apple, Martin opened up his favorite CAD program and refashioned his phone into the much hardier and indubitably more awesome machine you see before you. The new backing is built out of a titanium alloy that allows RF waves through and therefore requires no plastic parts to let the wireless communications flow. Check out the gallery for more before hitting the link below to bug Martin to provide you with a video or a price estimate.Gallery: Titanium iPhone 3GS modiPhone 3GS mod ditches plastic cover in favor of titanium vestment originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:23:00 -0800 http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/mkrjrETyvdQ/ Classics in Lego - a set on Flickr http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/238 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:30:00 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/ Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Hatch Massive Plan to DeCarbonize Chicago http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/240 Renowned architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (AS+GG) recently completed the investigation phase of a massive plan to “decarbonize” Chicago’s Loop. The firm’s goal was to assess variables such as the age, use, condition, and energy consumption of the 500 buildings in this central core area of the city. Carried out in cooperation with the Chicago Climate Action Plan, the monumental project calls for a retrofit of half the city’s commercial and residential buildings to result in a 30% reduction in energy use by 2020. AS+GG took on this tall order with very well thought-out, research based, holistic ideas that beg to be implemented. Read the rest of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Hatch Massive Plan to DeCarbonize Chicago Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "Adrian Smith", "AS+GG", "Gordon Gill", Architecture, chicago, chicagoland, city, decarbonization, Eco, global warming, green, illinois, plan, renewable energy, research, skycraper, strategy, water issues

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:00 -0800 http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/22/asgg-hatch-massive-plan-to-decarbonize-chicago/ Mavericks, the Surfers http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/239  

    

There are lots of amazing photos from the Mavericks Surf Competition last week. To see more, try a search for mavericks surfing. To see photos from this year only you can do an advanced search and limit it to photos posted after Feb 12, 2010. (The competition was on the 13th.)

Photos from Eggz, vonvonvon , vonstanger, gemmamio, elsparquito, prgibbs, and BarCad.

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:53:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Flickrblog/~3/6PXgPWUlhIQ/ Amundi Corporate http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/237 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:12:00 -0800 http://www.amundi.com/ A Rolling in the (fabric) Sea http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/236 Stickrod

]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:05:00 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/photos/stickrod/4361041102/ Garage Plan: Patio http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/235 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:09:00 -0800 http://details.coolhouseplans.com/details.html?pid=chp-40867&FoundID=31&sid=chp2&ordercode=C44496 The-Blueprints.com http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/234 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:33:00 -0800 http://www.the-blueprints.com/the-blueprints.com-images.html wallbase.net http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/233 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:03:00 -0800 http://wallbase.net/ Started P90X this morning. Going to be a long road worth traveling. http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/232 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:23:00 -0800 http://twitter.com/stickrod/statuses/8500021137 500 Internal Server Error http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/231 500 Internal Server Error

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:34:00 -0800 http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/stickrod?count=15 Poxy Coat — One Part Epoxy Coating http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/230 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:13:00 -0800 http://www.poxycoat.com/ Rev the engine. It's time to get this ass in gear. http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/229 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:20:00 -0800 http://twitter.com/stickrod/statuses/8180714119 Salt. Is It Good Or Bad? http://www.stickrod.com/items/view/228 Photo by Donna The salt issue.  People keep bringing it up as though it’s news. A new report says reduce your salt by 1/2 teaspoon a day and you will be more healthy (as though that alone would do it). The fact is, we have struggled to make our food so inexpensive that we’ve basically decided to grow cardboard, which, if you’ve ever tasted it, requires plenty of salt, especially if you intend to serve it to guests. Why do you think food is so cheap?  Because there’s nothing of value in it! Including flavor. Thus, the salt. Do we really need The New England Journal of Medicine to tell us this, or to have the earnest emotive Diane Sawyer reporting it during the dinner hour as though if we just kept our hands off that salt shaker we’d be 80-year-old triathletes? The problem is in the eating of processed food, the eating of the cheap stuff.  The cup of Swanson’s Organic Chicken Broth (shouldn’t broth be in quotes?) has half a gram of our recommended 2.3 grams. There’s nearly the same amount in that healthy V-8 juice. A Big Mac has twice that. We need salt to live. It regulates nutrient exchange in our cells.  If we don’t get it we die.  Therefore our bodies are highly attuned to the taste of salt.  That’s how we’ve evolved to regulate it.  The problem is, we don’t recognize it in the form of that chicken broth (please use water instead, btw). We don’t sense it in the V-8.  We do sense it on green beans along with the butter and lemon juice, mmm.  In a baked potato, definitely.  On a tomato—salt and tomato is what salting food is all about. Have you ever tried this?  Taste a tomato plain.  Taste the same tomato with some kosher salt on it.  That shows you the value of salt. I have talked with many chefs about this.  Thomas Keller and I have had serious discussions about the stance to take on salt. I wrote a book in which the most important ingredient is salt. My belief is this: if you eat natural foods, you don’t need to worry about salt.  Period.  End of discussion.  Some people have real issues with hypertension—they have to watch it on the salt.  My mom, I go easy on it when she visits (makes her ankles puffy).  Otherwise the truth is this: if you have a salt intake problem, you’re eating the wrong food. The above tomatoes? They were salted, floured, egg-washed and dipped in differing quantities of flour and corn meal.  I love the acidity of fried tomatoes, and the juicy crunch.  Wish I were having them for lunch. Alas, it’s January.  Maybe some leftover veg stew from last night, nothing but winter vegetables, a bacon rind, and water.  Perfectly seasoned with salt.

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