Breakfast Links: New Yorkers Live Longer, Renovatio & Ultra-portable Macbook
So it turns out that New Yorkers now live nine months longer than the national average, clocking in at 78.6 years. Yeaaahhh booooyyyyyy. Some of the measures the city has taken like the smoking ban and now the trans-fat ban are paying off, but really the main driver is that we walk a lot. We don’t drive *cough* LA *cough*, we walk. And we walk fast. Surprising to no one, it turns out that that’s good for you. So the crippling stress and frenetic life style probably still shave off a few years, but it’s all a tradeoff, right? That’s what vacations are for!
Thus as a New Yorker I feel that it is my duty to live a long life and not die young, thus increasing our life span average. That’s the only reason I am not going to go out and by the Renovatio (via gizmodo). Seriously, that’s the only reason. Oh, and the fact that I’m not an escaped clone running away with Scarlett Johansson.
You know what I would buy, though? That’s right, the often rumored ultraportable macbook mini. Well, throwing a little more fuel on that rumored fire is this AppleInsider report on Apple’s filing about it’s collapsible ports. That’s right the gating factor on the thinness of Apple’s design was how darn big those RJ-45 and USB ports are! And that’s why Apple keeps winning these days. Although they are rumored to be making it a 13″ screen, which to me means it’ll have a regular laptop form factor and weigh more than 3 lbs, which isn’t what I wanted to see. Sigh.
