marco:
As conducted with a sample size of one over a scientifically significant 4-day trial:
New Sudafed (phenylephrine)
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Pros: No side effects.
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Cons: Doesn’t work.
Meth Sudafed (pseudoephedrine)
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Pros: Works great. Can breathe through both nostrils for most of the day.
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Cons: Dizzy, dazed, can’t do much else except lie on the couch while breathing clearly through both nostrils.
Tylenol
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Pros: Works moderately. Generally mutes some of the unpleasant effects of having a cold, such as minor aches and a slight fever.
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Cons: Limited in scope. Doesn’t completely fix anything.
Natural stuff (vitamin C, zinc, herbal “remedies”, etc.)
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Pros: No side effects.
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Cons: No effects.
Coffee
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Pros: Actually works as a mild decongestant and a general feel-a-bit-better drug in small doses.
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Cons: Effects are short-lived.
Letting your body do its job for a few days
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Pros: No side effects. Actually works.
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Cons: No drug companies or natural-remedy slingers make any money off of you.
I have a much better understanding of the over-the-counter pharmaceutical industry now.
Some good info here. Also this:The case against all-in-one cold medicines.
marco:
I just figured out that a quart is called a quart because it’s a quarter gallon.
How is it possible that I did not know this? I mean, I’m in good company here, but still.
marco:
There’s a huge lack of good, practical, useful financial advice for regular people… .
Hopefully we can have a more open discourse about personal finance in our culture. It’s too painful to see 50-year-olds without retirement funds because nobody ever told them they needed one, or 20-year-olds with credit-card debt because they bought frivolous things and didn’t consider the math.
Click through for an initial dose of good, practical, useful financial advice.
marco:
I’m getting unexpectedly great reactions to Instapaper. Reblog the original post and add your comments if you’d like!
Digit3: “Instapaper gets my second-born, since I already promised my first-born to Tumblr.”
Inky: “Creating an account on Instapaper is quicker than saving a bookmark on del.icio.us. Saving a page for later is even quicker.”
Hannah: “Hurray for an internet application that helps you read more!”
Jakob Lodwick: “It’s worth signing up just to see the perfectly elegant handling of user accounts. ‘If you didn’t set a password, you don’t have one.’ Oh, Marco!”
Inky’s friend: “I can close tabs if I use this!”
Han: “I’m always trying to save items to read later. I usually forget about them, though. Not anymore!”
Ben Gold: “It’s like Delicious, but with Tumblr simplicity.”
Purzlbaum: “Oh, das ist wirklich cool.”
Holy cow! You’re darn right this is cool!
Marco:
Has anyone ever seen a contextual AdSense ad on a website that actually interested them, then clicked on it and made a purchase?
Websites have ads on them? I must not have noticed. ;)
I’m there for the content.
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