If you are planning to grab fast food in the near future, try avoiding these calorie bombs unless you want to get over half of your daily recomended calories in one item. And, for those of you on the West Coast, Hardees is Carl’s Jr’s name in other parts of the nation, so don’t run off to Carl’s to grab a sour dough burger and expect any less than 1,030 calories to end up in your belly....

Let’s play out (what could be) a familiar scenario. It’s 1 in the afternoon. You are in a mad rush to meet a deadline and have little time for lunch. You order a salad sandwich, or a tomato and olive focaccia. It’s eaten before the delivery person has even left the building. Was this a quick fix or recipe for a crash landing? This is how it all ends up....

Created in collaboration with Australia’s largest condom manufacturer Ansell, the ‘VivaGel’ condom reduces the chance of pregnancy like a typical condom, but has also been proven to kill a massive 99.9% of viruses. VivaGel helps to irradiate viruses via it’s specially formulated lubricant. The lube contains 0.5% astrodrimer sodium (a non-antibiotic) and an antimicrobial drug which is known to fight HIV. Peter Carroll, the president of Ansell and general manager of The Sexual Wellness Global Business Unit has told consumers they should expect to see the “ground-breaking new sexual health” condom in stores soon....

MetaFilter founder Matthew Haughey has a write up on finding a good accountant for online businesses at his [kinda] new blog, Fortuitous. Matthew strongly recommends a program called TurboTax, but also suggests that a real-life accountant can do wonders. How to pick an accountant for your online business – [fortuito.us]

Of course, even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can always download these free books now and read them on your computer or just save them in a file so you’ll have them ready if you do get a Kindle later… that way you might have a few free books ready to go, even if they aren’t free at that point. Official site – Freebook Sifter

This isn’t just necessary and important for writing, or drawing, or creating collections — it is also crucial for developing yourself and your own style into a direction where you grow to be comfortable and confident in your own skin. It is about seeing your environment and attaching whatever goes on, whatever makes you feel happy or alive or great to your own personality or your way of dressing....

What they won’t tell you on TV is that your comfort zone is killing you faster than all of these things combined. Plenty of people are out there living life to its fullest, but you can’t see them from your living room. It’s never too late to get off the couch and start making up for lost time. Be careful, because the difference between life inside your personal bubble and out in the real world is going to be huge....

With the amount of exposure children have to these kinds of consumer electronics, it’s now probably a must for parents (and adults in general) to have apps that are not only fun and child-friendly but are also educational. Some great examples are interactive educational apps. Not only are they specifically designed and marketed for kids, they are also fun to use—even for adults! Here are some interactive apps you should try on your iPhone....

Stress can only pose risks when it becomes uncontrolled and chronic.The detrimental effects of this type of stress on your health and life in general are numerous. Among the most are stress-related health conditions are: hypertension, heart attack, stroke, ulcer, infertility and depression. If you want to avoid these potentially life-threatening conditions, you should make the effort to keep your stress within manageable levels, and while there are a lot of stress-reducing techniques out there, I would like to share with you some of the simplest and underused yet effective techniques to reduce stress:...

But setting up a blog is just the first step. You can’t just write one or two posts and leave them at your self-hosted blog site. You need to blog regularly to achieve whatever your objective is in setting up a blog – whether it is to get ads, be Internet-famous or sell your services. The problem is how to come up with good ideas to sustain your blog in the next few months....

Sending out newsletters, offers, or updates to your readers and customers via email is an easy, cost-effective method for sharing your content. Emails can be powerful and profitable, but unfortunately, almost everybody knows this when millions of organizations are sending emails every minute of every day. With all the mail traffic how do you get yours noticed? Email management company Email Delivered has not only one answer, but five. Follow their methods from the infographic above to make sure your emails get the real audience they deserve....

The season is upon us: vodka-fueled work parties and pretending you love your coworkers. The stretch from Thanksgiving to New Years is a virtual onslaught of calories and if not managed well can put a roadblock in front of all the great work you’ve done with your health. So dust off your ugly Christmas sweater and grab a ‘nog-based beverage as I show you four ways to help avoid holiday overeating!...

Specifically, the podcast learning program at Stanford University is pretty extensive: Stanford University – General Collection iTunes Feed Web Site Stanford Law School: Center for Internet and Society iTunes Web Site Stanford Law School: Program in Law, Science & Technology iTunes Web Site University Podcast Collection – [Open Culture]

1. Ruminate on the Possibilities All businesses — small or large — must start somewhere. Before there is a vision, plan, or management plan, there’s an idea. They generally come about in one of two ways. Either a) you’re pondering a solution to a pressing but unresolved problem or b) you’re evaluating your life and arrive at the realization that you’ve been running from your dream instead of running to it....

Twitter is clearly the Next Big Thing. In the past couple of months, we’ve seen CNN adopting it as a way of giving living feedback during their shows, celebrities from Britney Spears to Demi Moore opening accounts, and hundreds of thousands of new users join the ranks of Tweeters. Businesses are getting into the Twitter game, too, using it as a way to provide near-instantaneous customer service, to promote their services, or to maintain brand awareness by staying engaged in ongoing conversations about their products and their competitors’....

Step 1) Remain Calm.” Hmm, calm during shark attack? Not so much. Or this advice on what to do if attacked by a bear, courtesy of the Tongass National Forest: Forest Facts webpage, “If a bear actually makes contact, surrender! Fall to the ground and play dead….” So far, so good, I think I could do that. Now what? “… If the bear continues biting you long after you assume a defensive posture, it likely is a predatory attack....

If you want to know more about weight loss, you can’t miss the following article that provides all useful tips you need: Weight Loss Plan And Program: Create Your Own One 1. Every beginner’s favorite: Push-ups Push-ups are one of the basic full body workouts that are introduced to everybody, regardless of their age. When doing push-ups, the muscles from the chest, triceps and core are used. After completing one push-up, it is believed that a person elevates 60 percent of their body weight....

It’s probably no secret to you. Some people were born with good DNA. Nothing they ever do seems to have any negative implications on their physique. They eat what they want, their training programs seem to be haphazard and yet they still have the body of an all star athlete. How can this be? It’s all in your genes. Take a look at your parents. Chances are you have a similar body type to the ones they had during they’re years growing up....

Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk – who has released a successful book herself – has written 10 things to keep in mind. It’s not about how to literally take your blog posts to a publisher, but covers points that will make your blog work as a book. How to get a six-figure book deal from your blog – [BrazenCareerist]

We hope to grow, to become better versions of ourselves each new day, yet the situations like these trump our progress and take us one step back each time. However, if we take another look into the seemingly devastating effects a certain trauma, loss or a failure has had on our lives, we may discover that there is another way out of misery, a way that will help us recover much faster and build stronger resilience in the face of adversity....